Sorry, Santa who? Today is all about the arrival of Wonder Woman, whose latest adventure hits HBO Max in the form of the much-anticipated Wonder Woman 1984. Early word from critics has been fairly positive, but a movie like this will really succeed based on what the fans think. So let’s discuss!
Source: io9 – Wonder Woman 1984 Is Finally Out, So Here’s Your Spoiler Discussion Zone!
Long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe started delivering some of the most ambitious crossovers in Hollywood history, UPN’s Moesha and The Parkers had already laid the groundwork for one of the small screen’s most interesting assortments of interconnected television series that, depending on how you look at things,…
Source: io9 – The Parkers Was Actually Nikki’s Metahuman Origin Story
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Source: io9 – Pour One out for The Mandalorian, Just as Long as You Use These Grogu Glasses
A lot of our faves on Star Trek: Discovery have been through some weird, weird stuff in three seasons, but few have had quite the journey Lieutenant—now Captain—Saru has had. But this week’s episode, “Su’Kal,” throws one hell of a curveball to our Kelpien friend…and to Doug Jones, the actor behind the makeup who…
Source: io9 – Star Trek: Discovery’s Doug Jones Unpacks Saru’s Surprise This Week
Based solely on camp counselor Susie’s characterization throughout Summer Camp Island’s first and second seasons, you got the sense that, aside from her vast magical powers, she was more or less your typical childhood bully. Despite being tasked to look after impressionable young minds, nothing delighted her more than…
Source: io9 – Summer Camp Island’s Season 3 Arcs Cast Everything in a Magical New Light
After being stuck in development hell for years, an adaptation of Cixin Liu’s popular Hugo-winning novel The Three-Body Problem had finally found a home on Netflix, with Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss attached to write and executive produce. But now the project is facing a different sort of…
Source: io9 – The Three-Body Problem Producer Lin Qi Allegedly Poisoned By a Fellow Film Film Executive
If you’re heading into a new dungeon, it’s good to have a familiar face by your side. Steamforged Games has added Critical Role voice actor and dungeon master Matthew Mercer to its list of guest writers for Bardsung, crafting one of several adventures for the new roleplaying game.
Source: io9 – Critical Role’s DM Will Spin a Yarn for Bardsung Dungeon Crawler
“I think it’s the best thing we’ve done so far,” Wes Chatham, who plays Amos Burton, says of The Expanse’s fifth season. We agree—and we also think Amos’ thrilling, emotional storyline has a lot to do with that success. In season five, we see him pay a long-awaited return visit to Earth, where things…take a turn.
Source: io9 – The Expanse’s Wes Chatham Reflects on the Relationships That Define Amos’ Season 5 Journey
In 2021, Warner Bros. is going all in on streaming with HBO Max in a way that’s almost certain to solidify the streaming service as a go-to destination for consumers looking to catch some of Hollywood’s newest upcoming feature releases.
Source: io9 – HBO Max Will Ring in the New Year With Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond
Next year is starting off the best way possible: we’re getting a brand new season of Cobra Kai. The hit Netflix show was set to debut season three on January 8 but today it was revealed it’ll be out a week earlier, on January 1. The perfect way to ring in the new year.
Source: io9 – Cobra Kai Season 3 Is Debuting a Week Early
Where I live, it’s too warm out for a white Christmas. But in the deep ocean, it’s always snowing. I’m talking about marine snow, or flakes of biological debris like dirt, dead phytoplankton and algae, and even bits of fecal matter that shower down from higher waters. So festive!
Source: io9 – Australian Robots Are Exploring to the Deep Sea to Study Marine Snow
The Mad Max: Fury Road prequel gets a release date. Wild new Flash set pictures could tease another obscure comics foe. Plus, what’s to come on the second season of Two-Sentence Horror Stories, and just in time for tomorrow, the…origins of Father Christmas!? Spoilers now!
Source: io9 – Updates From Wonder Woman 1984, Hawkeye, and More
This week Star Trek: Discovery screamed: “WE’RE IN THE LAST THREE EPISODES OF THE SEASON” at the top of its lungs. It did, in the typical Discovery manner, a fine job of flinging big emotions, big stakes, big twists, and more at our faces to get us ready for season three’s climax. But unlike past seasons, it managed…
Source: io9 – Discovery Just Rammed Its Endgame Into a Pretty Solid Episode of Star Trek
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Writer and director Mike Flanagan has been giving fellow horror creator Ryan Murphy a run for his money with Netflix’s Haunting series, which started with Haunting of Hill House and continued this year with Haunting of Bly Manor. Even though the fledgling anthology series has so many haunts to explore, Flanagan said…
Source: io9 – Haunting of Bly Manor Creator Has ‘No Plans’ to Continue the Anthology Series
Despite the fact that we live in a world with more Star Wars than ever, and even more to come, there is still power in the image of a Jedi. A flowing, hooded cloak, the snap-hiss and surreal glow as their lightsaber pierces our field of view—in spite of decades of familiarity, it’s an image that still sends a shiver…
Source: io9 – The Weapon of a Jedi Knight
Though Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films didn’t explicitly pair Frodo and Sam together romantically, the sizable amount of subtext presented on the screen naturally fed into the fandom’s already-established interest in the idea of shipping the two characters. All it takes is a cursory search through the fanfic…
Source: io9 – Sean Astin’s Cool With You Shipping Sam and Frodo, Two Bros Who Should Have Kissed
Deck the halls with boughs of blasters. It’s time to get into the Life Day spirit with a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special sing-along, featuring the vocal stylings of Billy Dee Williams and Poe Dameron doing a dance in a sweater.
Source: io9 – Lego Star Wars Holiday Special Gives Us a Festive Huttese Sing-Along
On New Year’s Day, Doctor Who finally returns with “Revolution of the Daleks,” and from what we know of it so far, seems like it’s going to give us a brand new faction of human-made Daleks…that the actual Daleks are none too pleased with. But this is far from the first time the pepperpots have come to blows with…
Source: io9 – A Brief History of Dalek Civil War
It was a rough year for all of us in the real world, but those fictional universes we spend so much time in didn’t get off scot-free. A lot of television shows ended their runs this year, and a lot of our favorite characters from sci-fi, fantasy, and horror took their final bows as well. Here are most of who and what…
Source: io9 – The Fictional Characters, TV Shows, and Movies We Lost in 2020