Tag: Good Writing
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My Little Pony: The Movie – Review
I recently watched My Little Pony: The Movie. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is my favourite episodic cartoon, surpassed only by flowing epics like Avatar: The Last Airbender and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. The characters are deep and complex, the setting is interesting, and the morals are—with the exception of some bad episodes—great. It’s no…
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“Fullmetal Alchemist” Review
For the longest time I was never able to really get into graphic novels of any kind. Even as everyone I knew raved about the latest Batman issue, I just couldn’t force myself to be interested in looking at panel after panel, bubble after bubble. Obviously I’ve always loved reading traditional novels with sentences and…
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“Guardians of Ga’Hoole” Book Series Review
I was really surprised by these books. You see, I made the mistake of watching a film called “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole.” The film was awful, and I made the mistake of assuming that the book series the film was based on would be just as bad. Later that year, another…
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How My Little Pony Became Great
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is my favourite show of the decade so far. I don’t think anyone expected when the first generation of My Little Pony aired in the ‘80s that it would eventually become a great show, but miraculously it managed it, proving that good writing can accomplish anything. In this article,…
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“The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾” Review
I wanted to briefly write down some thoughts on a book I just finished called “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾” by Sue Townsend. As the title suggests, the story is told through the journal of the gawkish Adrian Mole. I don’t want to go into too much detail, as you really should…
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Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Greatest Show of All Time
After I reviewed The Nutshack, one of the worst cartoons of all time, I said I’d talk about a good cartoon in my next review. There are so many great cartoons that it’s taken me quite a long time to decide which of them I should discuss first. My first thought was to talk about…
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The Battle of the Five Armies – Extended Edition
My birthday, being on the fifth of January, falls upon this day. By coincidence, Tolkien’s birthday is on the third of the same month, and therefore several days ago I celebrated the birthday of my favourite author by watching the “special extended edition” of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies for the first time,…
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Response to Criticism of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit
What I suspect is a very vocal minority has, on the internet, made very clear their dislike of Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Now, I could explain in great detail why most (if not all) of the changes and additions to the story are either innocuous and trivial and/or necessary due…