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Peter David’s Arthurian Obsession Gave Tie-In Fiction a Backbone Most Writers Never Bothered to Build
Peter David spent nearly four decades returning to the same well: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The pattern shows up in his creator-owned novels, his X-Men and DC comics work, and buried inside the Star Trek tie-in fiction that most fans treat as disposable. Track the pattern across his catalog and a case forms for something rarer than a running gag. David used Arthurian structure the way other writers use outlines, and it gave his tie-in work a spine that most licensed fiction never bothers to grow.
#SaveStargate Gets Its Biggest Voice Yet As Petition Tops 110,000 Signatures
Joe Flanigan has stayed quiet through six weeks of #SaveStargate campaigning. That changed this week, when the actor who played Lt. Colonel John Sheppard on Stargate Atlantis appeared in a video message shared by the fan campaign, thanking supporters and delivering a direct line to Amazon MGM Studios: “People do change their mind.” Flanigan is one of th…
Why The Tolkien Estate Must Keep The Silmarillion Away From Peter Jackson And Hollywood
There is a moment in the recent Middle-Earth Is BACK! video from a popular Tolkien YouTube channel Fellowship Updates where the host, covering Peter Jackson’s Cannes revelation about active talks to license The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales, describes it as “the biggest news in a very long time” and proceeds to list First Age stories with undisguised excitement, including the stories of Beren and Lúthien, the Fall of Gondolin, the rise and fall of Númenor.
Silo Season 3 Isn’t Being Review Bombed, It’s Boring, And Graham Yost’s Own Quotes Prove He Knows It
Apple TV’s Silo returned for its third season on July 3 with a perfect 100% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, its best ever. The audience score sits at 57-59%, the worst of the show’s run, a nearly 40-point gap that’s the widest the series has ever produced between critics and viewers. Some outlets have started calling that gap review bombing. Showrunner…
The Odyssey Opens To $124.5 Million, The Third-Biggest Debut Of 2026, Even With The Backlash
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey pulled in $124.5 million domestically in its opening weekend, and $257.8 million worldwide, making it the third-largest domestic debut of 2026 behind only Toy Story 5 and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. It’s also Nolan’s biggest opening since 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises, his best-ever global launch as a director, and the h…
UPDATE: Bjo Trimble Gets Her Invite: Creation Entertainment Confirms Star Trek Legend For August Conventions
Bjo Trimble has been invited to Creation Entertainment’s Star Trek convention circuit this August, closing out the fan campaign Fandom Pulse covered last week asking why the woman whose 1968 letter-writing campaign saved the original series from cancellation had not been invited to Star Trek’s own 60th anniversary events.
Games Workshop Declares War on Its Own Community
For years, one voice in the Warhammer community was saying it louder than anyone else wanted to hear. Games Workshop was not a misunderstood corporation making clumsy mistakes, nor was it a company that simply needed better PR, or fans who needed to communicate their grievances more clearly. It was, in the words of that voice, simply evil, and it would keep getting away with it for as long as the community let it.