General thoughts on Marvel’s What If…? series finale — ep. 9, What If… The Watcher Broke His Oath?

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Warning: general discussions of violence, murder, zombies, etc.

There’s also some adult humour/references, because they brought Captain Carter back…

The Newport Rising, 1839, and 22 martyrs to the cause of democracy in Great Britain

(Warning: this post discusses political struggle, including murder by the military. It also refers to historical capital punishment and torture.)

‘I shall, this night, be engaged in a struggle for freedom and, should it please…

The little-known group of people that fought for democracy in the UK.

The right to elect Members of Parliament (MPs) for the UK was restricted, for a very, very, long time, to those who met whatever property requirement was in place at the time.

Property requirements meant that only people who owned or rented property that was worth over X amount could vote. (The amount changed from time to time, usually with inflation.)

The Chartists saw the problem with this system: a system which does not allow the poor to have a political voice will never be truly representative of the people.

Chartism was born from the publication of The People’s…

The film was already wow, but somehow the book manages to expand on it and vividly conjure these images which were so striking from the movie.

Title:

Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of The Faun

Author:

Guillermo Del Toro and Cornelia Funke

Genre:

Media Tie-In, Horror, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Fairy Tales (-ish,) Magic Realism (-ish,) Young Adult (Maybe? Maybe just adult with YA appeal. It’s kind of difficult to gage the age range here!)

A Few Starting Notes:

I received a free digital review copy of this book via NetGalley. …

General thoughts on Marvel’s What If…? episode 8 — What If… Ultron Won?

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This may be highly surprising to you, dearest nerdlets, but I actually make notes while I’m watching What If…? so that I remember what I wanted to say when I come to write these posts.

Most of my notes for this episode are variations on ‘oh, sh**!’ — which, while an accurate and understandable response to a lot of this ep., …

The way this family plays hide and seek? Not good.

I love quirky horror movies with kick-butt heroines — films like Ready or Not.

Ready or Not is a super-quirky horror film about Grace, who is marrying Alex Le Domas — a member of the rich Le Domas family, who made their money in board games.

(And yes, there is a vibe here that…