Lanterns Says The Quiet Part, Baen In Trouble, Stranger Things Flop - Fandom Pulse Daily Briefing
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“Only One Can Wear the Ring”: Lanterns’ New Tagline Signals Exactly What Fans Feared
A new motion poster for HBO’s Lanterns dropped this morning with a tagline that reads “Only one can wear the ring,” and the fan reaction has been about what you’d expect. The phrase lit up social media within hours, confirming what a December 2025 leak from an HBO Max upfront event in Mexico City had already predicted: this show is built around replacin…
Baen Books Is In Trouble And The Signs Are Everywhere
Baen Books built its name by doing what the rest of traditional publishing refused to do: publish military science fiction, hard sci-fi, and unapologetically entertaining genre fiction without a political litmus test. For over four decades, authors like David Weber, John Ringo, and Larry Correia found a home there that didn’t exist anywhere else in New …
Space Fleet Academy Year 3 Marks A Milestone As Series Surpasses Starfleet Academy
It’s legendary at this point. Robert Picardo told me to write my own Star Trek show if I didn’t like what they were doing with Starfleet Academy. So I did. It’s a dream story for an author. Space Fleet Academy debuted, hit number one, and kept selling, with huge reviews on Amazon from rabid sci-fi readers who were betrayed by what Star Trek gave them. N…
Netflix Strip-Mines Stranger Things With Animated Spinoff Nobody Asked For
Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85 dropped on Netflix today to a 4.3 out of 10 on IMDb. Over 52 percent of users gave it one star before it even went live.
Eric Kripke Leans Into Trump Rants as The Boys Season 5 Debuts
The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke is using the final season of his Amazon Prime Video series as a personal political platform, delivering a stream of anti-Trump commentary that has become as prominent as the show itself. As Season 5 premieres to mixed audience reception, Kripke seems more interested in discussing Donald Trump than the actual storytelling choices that have divided the fanbase.
Reclaiming The Shire: The Right Wing And Christian Soul Of The Lord Of The Rings (Part 6)
We started a retrospective on Tolkien’s rise to superstardom, which began with a left-wing movement in the 1970s appropriating his work, and has slowly migrated over time to people realizing how right-wing and Christian Lord of the Rings is. Now, we continue.