by Zackary Russell | Nov 25, 2021 | Wheel of Time
Review of S1 E3 of The Wheel of Time, “A Place of Safety.” Spoilers for the episode and light spoilers for the books. We meet Dana the Darkfriend in this episode, who longed to go some place new, to escape the dirt she was born into. Usually, a good...
by Zackary Russell | Nov 24, 2021 | Wheel of Time
Review of S1 E2 of The Wheel of Time, “Shadow’s Waiting.” Spoilers for the episode and light spoilers for the books. Shadar Logoth is one of those strange places in the books that seems like a throwaway location, a convenient place of refuge and yet...
by Zackary Russell | Nov 23, 2021 | Wheel of Time
Review of S1 E1 of The Wheel of Time, “Leavetaking.” Spoilers for the episode and light spoilers for the books. The Wheel of Time turns. Thirty one years ago, this fifteen-book series first came to print. Twenty-six years ago, I started reading it, when it...
by Zackary Russell | Nov 23, 2021 | Wheel of Time
There is a lot to love about the trailer for The Wheel of Time. Near perfection. I even like some of the things that others don’t, like the CGI of the weaving. Invisible channeling would have been lame. But there’s one glaring problem: when Moiraine says,...
by Zackary Russell | Jan 20, 2021 | Movies
I keep thinking about that scene with the “red phone” (or more formally, the Moscow-Washington hotline) from The Sum of All Fears. It’s after a nuclear bomb goes off at a football game. The president narrowly escapes, and then starts spinning up the...