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I'm chatty about and/or have posted fic for Star Wars (mostly the PT-to-OT era), Star Trek (mostly TOS and DS9), and Supernatural. Occasional forays into Marvel 616 and the Batfamily-ish bits of DC.
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Welcome! I'm Havendale (she/her) - multifandom, multishipper, Millennial. You can find me under the same name on AO3 or Tumblr. I also have a personal fic archive.
Surely this summer work won’t consume all of my time and I’ll maintain a consistent posting schedule, I told myself back in April. Best laid plans, etc., etc.
Anyway: this time on The Starlost, we’re copying Star Trek’s homework again. Spoilers within.
( To boldly go where another series went a couple of years before )
Anyway: this time on The Starlost, we’re copying Star Trek’s homework again. Spoilers within.
( To boldly go where another series went a couple of years before )
This time on The Starlost, this whole thing smacks of gender. Spoilers within.
( My mama told me I should never leave the biosphere/But I did, I did, I did )
( My mama told me I should never leave the biosphere/But I did, I did, I did )
Last November, I finished reviewing Shadow Chasers, a mostly very bad genre fiction series from the 1980s. I then had an unexpectedly dismal several months owing to my father dying suddenly. However, I’ve emerged from the misery cocoon, I’ve got my snacks and my store-brand diet cola close at hand, and it’s time to put on the first two episodes of The Starlost, a yet-to-be-determined-exactly-how-bad genre fiction series from the 1970s. Spoilers within.
( Party on, Devon. Party on, Garth. )
( Party on, Devon. Party on, Garth. )
All thoroughly mediocre things must come to an end. Spoilers within.
( O Shadow Chaser no sooner aired but cancelled )
( O Shadow Chaser no sooner aired but cancelled )
In which Shadow Chasers is maybe, possibly starting to grow the beard. Spoilers within.
( Werewolves of … you know, I don’t think it’s ever established what state we’re visiting. )
( Werewolves of … you know, I don’t think it’s ever established what state we’re visiting. )
Well, here we go again. Another busy summer left me bereft of – or possibly spared from, depending on your point of view – Shadow Chasers episodes. But the leaves are changing, the days are growing shorter, and my “Watch Later” playlist on YouTube is waiting, so let’s get started.
Spoilers within.
( Where does your senator stand on the issue of wizard contracts? )
Spoilers within.
( Where does your senator stand on the issue of wizard contracts? )
In which I take a break from complaining about Shadow Chasers to complain about something else. Spoilers within.
( Sad dads in space are a gender-neutral concept. )This time on Shadow Chasers, Trevor Eve earns his paycheque.
Spoilers within.
( All shadow-chasing and no play makes Jonathan a dull boy. )
Spoilers within.
( All shadow-chasing and no play makes Jonathan a dull boy. )
In which I wonder if Shadow Chasers is falling victim to the Star Trek movie curse.
Spoilers within, as usual.
( One out of two ain’t bad. )
Spoilers within, as usual.
( One out of two ain’t bad. )
I know, I know. You didn’t particularly like the first episode, Havendale: why are you watching more? Well, look: I don’t particularly like the taste of Cheezies, either, but I’ve never left a bag of Cheezies half-eaten.
I’m using a lot of junk food metaphors to describe this show.
Anyway, spoilers within.
( Mercifully, the ghost of Charles Lindbergh does not appear this week. )
I’m using a lot of junk food metaphors to describe this show.
Anyway, spoilers within.
( Mercifully, the ghost of Charles Lindbergh does not appear this week. )
Episode Review (SC): Pilot
Mar. 13th, 2025 09:08 pmAs much as I whinge about TV in the age of streaming, I’m not going to pretend that TV itself was better back in the day. It absolutely wasn’t – genre TV especially. Oh sure, you had your Twilight Zone and your Deep Space Nine, but let’s face it: a significant chunk of pre-prestige era genre TV existed solely to be the glue holding together ten different toothpaste commercials.
With that said: at the end of a long week, there’s nothing quite like watching forty to ninety minutes of utter schlock produced on a shoestring budget, starring people who are only doing this to pay the mortgage. It’s the mental equivalent of Kraft Dinner. And so, at the end of a very, very long week, I sat down, cracked open a store-brand diet cola,* and watched the pilot episode of Shadow Chasers.
Spoilers within for a forty-year-old series.
( Like storm chasers, but not as dramatic. )
With that said: at the end of a long week, there’s nothing quite like watching forty to ninety minutes of utter schlock produced on a shoestring budget, starring people who are only doing this to pay the mortgage. It’s the mental equivalent of Kraft Dinner. And so, at the end of a very, very long week, I sat down, cracked open a store-brand diet cola,* and watched the pilot episode of Shadow Chasers.
Spoilers within for a forty-year-old series.
( Like storm chasers, but not as dramatic. )
This week on Skeleton Crew, the end, for now. Massive spoilers for the season (series?) finale within.
( And it’s a heave-ho, hi-ho, sailing through the stars… )This week on Skeleton Crew, I happily eat humble pie. Massive spoilers within.
( My name is Jod Na Nawood, as I sailed, as I sailed… )This week on Skeleton Crew, we continue the tradition of airing episodes on the eve of significant holidays. This is an interesting choice given that Skeleton Crew is reportedly struggling with its viewership numbers: I can understand not wanting to confuse things by changing up your airdates after the fact, but you’d think somebody at Disney+ might have glanced at a calendar before going with Tuesdays in December.
Anyway, you know the drill: spoilers within.
( Should auld pirate comrades be forgot/And never brought to mind? )This week on Skeleton Crew, all is forgiven. As usual: spoilers.
( It was Christmas Eve, babe/Out in deep space… )Unlike TBB, which dropped new episodes at one in the morning in my time zone, Skeleton Crew is currently releasing its installments at a respectable seven in the evening. It’s almost like watching regular old TV, albeit without the cable box randomly resetting itself in the middle of Columbo. The major benefit of this as far as I’m concerned is that I can write my reviews in the evening, rather than waking up the next morning and trying to decipher a bunch of scribbled notes.
And so, this week on Skeleton Crew: Jude Law. Spoilers herein.
( The hero’s journey, now with pirates. )Star Wars projects come and – depending on anticipated box office returns, Disney+ subscription numbers, and LEGO sales – Star Wars projects go. Maybe we’re still getting a Rey movie; maybe we’re not. Maybe we’re getting Eclipse; maybe we’re not. We’re almost certainly (well, probably) getting that Mandalorian movie.
The upshot of which is: between one cancellation and another, I’d mostly forgotten Skeleton Crew was still happening. As of December, however, Disney+ is very keen that I know Skeleton Crew is in fact happening, and that Jude Law is in it. So how does it hold up?
This week on Skeleton Crew: Jude Law, maybe. Spoilers herein.
( It’s cold outside, there’s no kind of atmosphere… )Game Review: The Hook-Up
Nov. 18th, 2024 01:53 pmThe 2000s were a good time to be a casual gamer. Granted, you couldn’t ignore your family at the dinner table in favour of playing Candy Crush on your phone, but practically every website aimed at young people in those days had a handful of free-to-play Flash games on it. Released in 2006, The Hook-Up (despite the awkward name, it’s entirely PG-rated) is a Flash game formerly hosted on The N, the Internet presence of the TV programming block, in which your goal is to successfully romance one of four possible love interests. Thanks to the Internet Archive, The Hook-Up lives on despite the demise of both The N and Flash. But how does it hold up almost twenty years later?
As it turns out: not well. Not well at all.
( The past is a foreign country; they wear flared jeans there. )Movie Review (TF): Transformers One
Nov. 8th, 2024 09:23 pmI live! Work got in the way of blogging for a good five months there, but I’m ready to return to my favourite pastime: writing mildly sarcastic reviews of franchise media. Fortunately for me, Hasbro and Paramount recently released Transformers One: the first stab at a theatrical animated Transformers film since 1986’s The Transformers: The Movie. TFTM was a thoroughly mediocre film, and is remembered mostly for killing off a bunch of characters and introducing new ones (all the better to sell toys) and featuring the voice talent of an obviously bored Orson Welles. Is Transformers One an improvement?
Be warned: spoilers herein.
( You got the touch, you got the power, and you got a disappointing weekend opening. )
