After six novels that had good points worth picking out but weren’t consistently great, Aaron Allston delivers the first rock-solid page-turner of the franchise with “Terminator Dreams” (2003), which functions as a prequel and sequel to “Terminator […]
Mark W. Tiedemann’s “Hour of the Wolf” (2004) is an oddball novel: It was released in the wake of “Terminator 3” but is part of the “Terminator 2” franchise. And it’s a continuation of Russell Blackford’s young-adult […]
For five seasons, “The Walking Dead” has revealed the flaws of societal structure through a world struggling to rebuild that structure. But we never saw the actual process of the stripping away of society. In […]
After a three-year hiatus (which, oddly, was packed with novels), the “Terminator” franchise returned to comics in 2003 with a six-issue series tying in with “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.” Whereas Now’s and Dark […]
Russell Blackford’s young-adult “New John Connor Chronicles” trilogy continues to be redundant and overwritten in the final book, “Times of Trouble” (2003). The previous book ends with a promise of going to Jade’s World, yet the first […]
Considering that it lacks James Cameron, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong and Brad Fiedel, I find “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” (2003) to be a pretty darn good – if inferior – follow-up to the first two […]
“An Evil Hour” (2003), the second book of Russell Blackford’s “New John Connor Chronicles” young-adult trilogy, is even more overwritten than the first novel. A remarkable amount of the 368-page paperback consists of logistical arrangements between […]
In a line from a parody of the “Terminator Genisys” trailer, Sarah Connor says in a voiceover: “John keeps sending Terminators. He’s lost his mind.” And judging by the official trailers for the movie, it did indeed […]
Season 2 of “Star Wars Rebels” recently kicked off in our universe, but in an alternate dimension where George Lucas did not sell “Star Wars” to Disney, fans are currently reflecting on the conclusion of […]
I’ve been slower than most fans to embrace Disney’s take on “Star Wars.” Even though “Star Wars Rebels” features “Clone Wars’ “ executive producer Dave Filoni in one of the drivers’ seats, I still resented the end […]