Epic: the Musical: the Curated Fanimatic Series
I'm not going to declare that this whole album is reinterpreting the Odyssey as a metaphor for military PTSD until I've seen more of it, but the first two tracks definitely make it seem like that.
Haibane Renmei (E8-10)
The wings don't actually let them fly; they just hurt while growing in and inconvenience them from that point on. They have the romantic image, but it's just an image. Beyond the photo-op frozen in time, there's still life that needs to be lived. By someone, somewhere.
Chip'n Dale, Rescue Rangers ("The Case of Cola Cult" and "Risky Beesness")
"Rescue Rangers" does present an interesting picture of Disney's televised animation in a transitional state.
All Night Laundry (chapters 3-5)
It's an incredibly strong juxtaposition of power and powerlessness.
Bewitched S1E7: "The Witches are Out"
I'm not sure if this show ever realized what it was actually saying. Maybe it did. But I don't think so.
The Amazing Digital Circus E2: "Candy Carrier Chaos!"
A pathetic figure, broken and trying his best even though doing so just breaks himself even more. Isn't that the state of what passes for "AI" development these days?
City of Angles (chapter one: "Starting Out Sideways")
Or...okay, I've got it. Imagine if Douglas Adams wrote "Neverwhere." Yeah. I think that's more or less right.
The Dragon Masters (part two)
The greph breeding a human lineage specifically to be ridden pretty much has to be pure sadism and megalomania.
The Dragon Masters (part one)
It was easier to be original back then, when there was less science fiction and fantasy already out there on the market, but reading "The Dragon Masters" makes me feel sure that there's fertile ground still waiting to be tilled by authors with sufficient imagination.
Malcolm in the Middle S2E20: "Bowling"
A creative idea for an episode, saddled with mostly lazy writing and unfunny jokes.
Katalepsing Katalepsis
Maybe genre, in its entirety, as a concept, is actually just...bad?
Katalepsis IV: the Other Side of Nowhere (part 3)
Alexander’s means antagonized all his neighbours, and the ends were them ganging up and rendering his sacrifices for naught.
Katalepsis IV: “the Other Side of Nowhere” (part 2)
This isn't just an encrustation of living material. It's descending passed the epidermis and into the living skin tissue of another planet-creature.
Dr. Who: "Rose"
When I put it in writing "zany impish guy is now a traumatized veteran" sounds like an edgy juvenile deconstruction. It isn't, though. It really, really isn't.
Katalepsis IV: the Other Side of Nowhere (part 1)
No way in hell did New Sun create all of this, Lozzie or no Lozzie.
New Statesmen: finale
If there was meant to be a lot more New Statesmen that the authors never got to put to page, then...well, I guess that's sad for them, but I also can't bring myself to say that it's any kind of loss to the world.
Katalepsis III: "Conditions of Absolute Reality" (part five)
What we're looking at is the product of an ongoing war between wizards and behaviour-modifying parasites.
Katalepsis III: "Conditions of Absolute Reality" (part four)
This episode led me back into a question I've asked a few times previously: why does magic make you a monster, in this setting? Why are magicians all so insistent on competing, when it seems like cooperating gives them much more to gain?