The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

"Then let us be rid of it... once and for all! Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you!"

We come to it at last, the great battle of our time. My epic struggle against the twin terrors of writer's block and procrastination to finally get this entire trilogy reviewed.

Murderbot: Eye Contact

"What's it like to be you?"

Much of this episode was Murderbot versus Gurathin in an extended conversation, a confrontation between two beings at different levels of the human scale. The stakes of that conversation, as in Murderbot possibly getting put down, were not small.

Andor: Who Else Knows?

Kleya: "You told me you were done once."
Cassian: "Yeah, and you told me I was wrong."

While the last episode was slow, thoughtful and sad, this was the complete opposite: it was tense, fast paced and occasionally joyful.

Murderbot: FreeCommerce

"Stay calm. It will be okay. You have my word."

I had planned to review the first and second episodes together, but I had too much to say about the first one. So I'll try to get my review of episode two up tomorrow or Monday.

Final Destination Bloodlines

"Life is precious. Enjoy every single second. You never know when."

After fourteen years, the Final Destination franchise returns to kill even more people in bloody accidents. And this time, we have a whole family as our cast.

Sourcery by Terry Pratchett (Discworld 5)

"Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn’t complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son — a wizard squared (that’s all the math, really) — who, of course, was a source of magic, a sourcerer."

The fifth Discworld book sees the return of Rincewind, whether he likes it or not, along with the Luggage, as they have to deal with the return of Sourcery after it being absent from the Disc for centuries, and for very good reason it turns out.

Andor: Make It Stop

“Am I your daughter now?”

What a beautiful, sad and unexpected episode. Well, not entirely unexpected, but this is not how I pictured things would play out.

Doctor Who: The Story and the Engine

"The Doctor! We need him now! It needs feeding!"

Doctor Who goes somewhere we've never been before, gives us a breathtaking study on the power of stories, community, heartbreak, the feeling of abandonment, and the grace of forgiveness. And I don't know if I'm qualified to talk about any of it.

But let's give it a shot.

Final Destination 5

"I don't make the rules. I just clean up after the game is over."

As I mentioned last time, horror franchises often descend into parody. But sometimes, if you’re lucky, the franchise will right itself. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, the franchise will return to what made it good in the first place.

We got lucky here.

This review contains heavy spoilers!

Dexter Original Sin: The Big Bad Body Problem

“I wish there was a Rand McNally for body disposal.”

What a shocking twist. I was floored.

Mini Comic Reviews: May, 2025

This month I'll be looking at the New 52 Wonder Woman, Absolute Flash, Grant Morrison’s The Mystery Play, the Glory reboot from 2012, and latest series of X-Men.

Mort by Terry Pratchett (Discworld 4)

I? KILL? said Death, obviously offended. CERTAINLY NOT. PEOPLE GET KILLED, BUT THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS. I JUST TAKE OVER FROM THEN ON. AFTER ALL, IT'D BE A BLOODY STUPID WORLD IF PEOPLE GOT KILLED WITHOUT DYING, WOULDN'T IT?

Book four of the Discworld series is about Death (the character), while also going into a bit of detail about death (the experience). While not as deep as some of his later works, it still has some interesting philosophical points to make while also being funny as Discworld always is.