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Star Trek: Discovery Cannot Help the Indulgence of a Happy Ending
When appraising a piece of fiction, it’s often necessary to consider the context in which it was created. Sometimes a piece of work can stand on its strengths alone to convey meaning and theme — but sometimes context is necessary to allow certain understandings and conveniences. And Star Trek: Discovery’s latest finale is, perhaps more…
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37 Per Cent of the World’s Population Has Never Been Online, U.N. Report Finds
Nearly two-thirds of the world’s population now have the opportunity to waste away their life online just like you. Specifically, around 2.9 billion (or 37%) of the world’s population have still never used the internet, with the vast majority of those people residing in developing countries. Those figures are part of a new report conducted…
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Sonequa Martin-Green Loves Being a Sci-Fi Superstar
For years Sonequa Martin-Green, the former Walking Dead star and current captain on Star Trek: Discovery, heard the same rumours we all did. Rumours that NBA superstar LeBron James was going to take the mantle left by Michael Jordan and make another Space Jam for Warner Bros. That talk had been floating around since 2012…
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Black Panther Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates Wants Better for Creators Bringing These Stories to Life
With Black Panther #25 bringing Ta-Nehisi Coates’ run on the Marvel comic — which transformed Wakanda into a time-travelling, intergalactic empire — to a close, the writer’s moving on to tell the next chapter of another comics icon’s story, with Warner Bros.’ upcoming Superman movie about a Black Kal-El. Though Coates is shifting to a…