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Author: Tyler Peterson

· by Tyler Peterson · Sep 10, 2021

Model officers: Star Trek: Lower Decks “An Embarrassment of Dooplers”

No cold open this week. We jump right into Freeman’s captain’s log, where she narrates that she’s on a TOS-style state dinner with a species that has some bizarre characteristic they have to be very careful to accommodate. In this…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Sep 3, 2021

Domo arigato, Mister Mugato: Star Trek: Lower Decks “Mugato, Gumato”

The cold open occurs in the gym, a part of the ship so rarely seen in the Next Generation era that I had lowkey assumed that ships had gotten rid of them entirely in favor of holodecks. (I guess Starfleet…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Aug 27, 2021

Shaxs and awe: Star Trek: Lower Decks “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris”

This episode opens in the galley, where the recently-created Boimler 2 is ready to retake his undignified place as the ship’s Charlie Brown-esque whipping boy. Ransom explains to him that security measures have been tightened up in the wake of…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Aug 20, 2021

Darmok time: Star Trek: Lower Decks “Kayshon, His Eyes Open”

Just judging by the title alone, this episode is going to be an homage to the “Darmok” episode of The Next Generation, where our enterprising Enterprise crew encountered an alien species with a language consisting entirely of recontextualized references…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Aug 17, 2021

Timeline bling: Loki “For All Time. Always”

Previously: After trying and failing to ascertain the origins, leadership, and ultimate purpose of the Time Variance Authority by going through its ostensible leaders the Time-Keepers, Loki, Sylvie, and Mobius are reset and dumped into a big temporal void with…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Aug 13, 2021

Can’t keep a god man down: Star Trek: Lower Decks “Strange Energies”

For all you who may be new around here: I did not care for the first season of Star Trek: Lower Decks. And what with all the free time we’ve had this past year, I did a lot of…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Aug 10, 2021

Withnail and Lok-I: Loki “Journey into Mystery”

Previously: Loki and Sylvie are trying to spread the word among the TVA agents that they’re all mind-erased variants from extinct timelines pressed into TVA service. Sylvie’s nemesis, Judge Renslayer, seems to know something about this, as she’s been busy…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jul 6, 2021

Staff meeting: Loki “The Nexus Event”

Previously on Loki: Loki and Sylvie, Loki’s gender-swapped alternate-timeline iteration, were a real mismatched pair, whose similarities in personality only accentuated their rivalry. Marooned in the future on a planet that loves another planet and is about to make some…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jun 24, 2021

Strange ones on a train: Loki “Lamentis”

Previously: With the help of Protagonist Loki, the TVA managed to track down the Loki who’s been killing all their Minutepeople. And it’s a Lovely Lady Loki! But they weren’t able to foil Lady Loki’s plan to bomb the “Sacred…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jun 16, 2021

Loki be a lady tonight: Loki “The Variant”

Previously on Loki: Loki, god of slash fic mischief, has escaped from his destined death via time travel shenanigans and immediately gotten himself arrested by the all-powerful Time Variance Authority, who police time travel shenanigans in the name of…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jun 10, 2021

Lowkey Loki: Loki “Glorious Purpose”

“Wait a minute,” you may say, if you’ve been keeping up. “Isn’t this guy dead?” Yes indeed, the opening scene of Avengers: Infinity War saw the godly neck bones of Loki, Tom Hiddleston’s breakout semi-villain, going crack. And because he…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 25, 2021

Black-tain America and the Winning Soldier: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “One World, One People”

Previously: John Walker used the world’s last dose of super-serum to juice himself up to fight bad guys, but then lost his Captain America status for aggravated lack of chill. A shadowy unelected transnational council with its own military and…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 19, 2021

Montage daydream The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “Truth”

Previously: Sam’s sister Sarah still can’t make her fishing boat payments, even though she has twice as many customers now. John Walker injected himself with some stolen super-soldier serum in order to serve more effectively as Captain America, but that…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 10, 2021

Wakanda weak Captain America is this? The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “The Whole World is Watching”

Previously: The leader of the Flag-Smashers, Karli Morgenthau, is an anarcho-Thanosist terrorist with a Game of Thrones accent. Likes: bombs, stealing, being a super-soldier. Dislikes: governments, corporations, people other than her and her friends being super-soldiers. To track her down,…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 3, 2021

The Madripoorian: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “Power Broker”

Previously: Bucky and Sam were trying to remain in the superhero business in the wake of the naming of a new Captain America with unclear loyalties and an even unclearer agenda. He had something to do with the Global Repatriation…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Mar 27, 2021

The old man and the serum: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “The Star-Spangled Man”

Previously on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: The titular Falcon, Sam Wilson, wanted to help save his sister’s fishing boat, but since being an Avenger doesn’t, strictly speaking, pay (why would anyone work for Tony Stark for…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Mar 20, 2021

Make Captain America great again: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “New World Order”

A year and a half ago, Disney and Marvel Studios could not have anticipated what a wide-open market they’d have for their new line of streaming miniseries (or maybe they did—muahahaha!). But what they had in mind with these…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Mar 5, 2021

Chaos reigns (in primetime): Wandavision “The Series Finale”

Previously on WandaVision: Agatha pored through Wanda’s memories and deduced that she was the prophesied Scarlet Witch, a thing we’re not quite sure what it is, except that it means you can do magic without a bunch of fancy…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Feb 27, 2021

One witch, two witch, red witch, blue witch: WandaVision “Previously On”

Previously on WandaVision: Vision, fresh from his escape attempt, was running home to talk to Wanda, who was being held captive by newly revealed villain Agatha Harkness, a hipster witch who was into harnessing the hidden forces of the…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Feb 20, 2021

Avengered Development: WandaVision “Breaking the Fourth Wall”

Previously on WandaVision: Everything’s falling apart for Wanda. Her husband just tried to break out of Rerun Land and she had to expand its borders to stop him from disintegrating. Her suddenly American brother has no interest in maintaining…

Author: Tyler Peterson

Model officers: Star Trek: Lower Decks “An Embarrassment of Dooplers”

Domo arigato, Mister Mugato: Star Trek: Lower Decks “Mugato, Gumato”

Shaxs and awe: Star Trek: Lower Decks “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris”

Darmok time: Star Trek: Lower Decks “Kayshon, His Eyes Open”

Timeline bling: Loki “For All Time. Always”

Can’t keep a god man down: Star Trek: Lower Decks “Strange Energies”

Withnail and Lok-I: Loki “Journey into Mystery”

Staff meeting: Loki “The Nexus Event”

Strange ones on a train: Loki “Lamentis”

Loki be a lady tonight: Loki “The Variant”

Lowkey Loki: Loki “Glorious Purpose”

Black-tain America and the Winning Soldier: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “One World, One People”

Montage daydream The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “Truth”

Wakanda weak Captain America is this? The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “The Whole World is Watching”

The Madripoorian: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “Power Broker”

The old man and the serum: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “The Star-Spangled Man”

Make Captain America great again: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “New World Order”

Chaos reigns (in primetime): Wandavision “The Series Finale”

One witch, two witch, red witch, blue witch: WandaVision “Previously On”

Avengered Development: WandaVision “Breaking the Fourth Wall”

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