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Star Trek: Discovery Mid-Season Return – The Case for Captain Lorca

As the Star Trek: Discovery mid-season return arrives this Sunday, fans anxiously wait to find out where exactly USS Discovery and her crew are following a seeming breakdown of their super-human navigator in the mid-season finally. Have they traveled in time? Are they trapped in an spatial anomaly? Or have they crossed into a parallel universe, specifically the Mirror Universe well known in Trek lore? While the “where” question will likely be answered in the first moments of Sunday’s episode, the more gnawing questions of the “how” or “why” they’re where they have arrived may not be so readily answered. However, that hasn’t stopped the speculation on “who” is responsible for this unexpected journey, and many feel certain there is only one answer: Captain Lorca. But this fan disagrees and here’s why.

By Kristen E. Strubberg Editor-in-Chief

#star trek #star trek discovery #gabriel lorca #paul stamets #st:disco #michael burnham #TGNR #captain lorca

Star Trek: Discovery Mid-Season Return – The Case for Captain Lorca

As the Star Trek: Discovery mid-season return arrives this Sunday, fans anxiously wait to find out where exactly USS Discovery and her crew are following a seeming breakdown of their super-human navigator in the mid-season finally. Have they traveled in time? Are they trapped in an spatial anomaly? Or have they crossed into a parallel universe, specifically the Mirror Universe well known in Trek lore? While the “where” question will likely be answered in the first moments of Sunday’s episode, the more gnawing questions of the “how” or “why” they’re where they have arrived may not be so readily answered. However, that hasn’t stopped the speculation on “who” is responsible for this unexpected journey, and many feel certain there is only one answer: Captain Lorca. But this fan disagrees and here’s why.

By Kristen E. Strubberg Editor-in-Chief

#star trek #star trek discovery #captain lorca #gabriel lorca #TGNR

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The Complete Guide to The Man in the High Castle Season 3

November is here, and the anticipated return of Amazon’s award winning adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s classic The Man in the High Castle grows tantalizingly closer. As one of the most well written and portrayed series available, fans are clamoring to find out where the show is heading after the amazing conclusion of Season 2 last December. To be sure viewers can expect more of the show’s signature multidimensional construction, meticulous attention to detail, character development, and its depiction of the sheer humanity of evil. Therefore let’s take a blow-by-blow character review of what we know so far, and what we expect to see when Season 3 debuts in January 2018.

By Paul K. DiCostanzo Managing Editor

#the man in the high castle #The Man in the High Castle #High Castle #rufus sewell #season 3 #alternate history #TGNR #amazon prime video

The Complete Guide to The Man in the High Castle Season 3

November is here, and the anticipated return of Amazon’s award winning adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s classic The Man in the High Castle grows tantalizingly closer. As one of the most well written and portrayed series available, fans are clamoring to find out where the show is heading after the amazing conclusion of Season 2 last December. To be sure viewers can expect more of the show’s signature multidimensional construction, meticulous attention to detail, character development, and its depiction of the sheer humanity of evil. Therefore let’s take a blow-by-blow character review of what we know so far, and what we expect to see when Season 3 debuts in January 2018.

By Paul K. DiCostanzo Managing Editor

#The Man in the High Castle #amazon #philip k dick #amazon prime video #Alternate History #TGNR

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Sam Shepard – America Personified

“Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery…” – Sam Shepard, 1975

Since I was a little boy I always believed that Sam Shepard embodied the American Dream. You could see it in his eyes – the rugged individualism of Western Manifest Destiny that made this nation great. Maybe that’s because I first glimpsed the man in Philip Kaufman’s ‘The Right Stuff’ (1983) as Chuck Yeager, the most famous of America’s test pilots. And to every kid that grew up watching ‘The Right Stuff’, test pilots were modern America’s cowboys – great adventurous men that lived and worked outside the normal bounds and rules of our conventional society.

By David Sporn Entertainment & Arts Contributor

#sam shepard #film #american #badass #legend #TGNR

“The reason anyone would do this, if they could - which they can't - would be because they could, which they can't.”

#rick and morty #pickle rick #adult swim #hilarious #pickles #TGNR

Jeanne Moreau – Living is Risking

Jeannne Moreau, the icon of French cinema, never believed in nostalgia. In a 2001 interview with The Guardian, she asked, “Nostalgia for what? Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place. And I think, my God, look at them! They’re dead before they die…Living is risking.”

How often we allow what was once dangerous and spry to become entombed in the wax museum of pop culture nostalgia. Moreau, witty – propulsive – anti-establishment (anti every single establishment, including anti-establishment posturing) to the very end, escaped this ignominious fate because she never stopped moving.

By David Sporn Entertainment & Arts Contributor

#jeannne moreau #film #france #french film #legend #TGNR History in Quotes

Sam Shepard – America Personified

“Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery…” – Sam Shepard, 1975

Since I was a little boy I always believed that Sam Shepard embodied the American Dream. You could see it in his eyes – the rugged individualism of Western Manifest Destiny that made this nation great. Maybe that’s because I first glimpsed the man in Philip Kaufman’s ‘The Right Stuff’ (1983) as Chuck Yeager, the most famous of America’s test pilots. And to every kid that grew up watching ‘The Right Stuff’, test pilots were modern America’s cowboys – great adventurous men that lived and worked outside the normal bounds and rules of our conventional society.

By David Sporn Entertainment & Arts Contributor

#sam shepard #america #film #movies #badass #TGNR

The Mac Daddy of Heimlich County has spoken.

#king of the hill #koth #adult swim #hank hill #texas #TGNR

HIV Patients Living As Long as the General Population – New Study Shows

New research released last month shows HIV patients treated with the current recommended medical regimen are achieving life expectancy nearly equal to that of the general population. Although no cure yet exists for HIV, therapies developed in the past thirty years have now significantly prolonged the lives of individuals for whom previously a positive diagnosis was a death sentence.

By Kristen E. Strubberg Managing Editor

#hiv #hiv/aids #medicine #medical research #science #TGNR