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A Pictorial History of Char Aznable’s Weirdest Ad Campaigns
Mobile Suit Gundam is a decades-old franchise examining the costs of war and imperialism over eons of interstellar conflict between decaying, corrupt governments. It’s also an anime show about giant robots made to sell toys, so sometimes you get the very peculiar sensation of one of the series’ most iconic characters hawking a car.
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J.K. Rowling Trolled by Russian Comedians Pretending to Be Ukraine’s President
J.K. Rowling found out that all’s fair in love and war the hard and awkward way on a Zoom call. The author of the Harry Potter series spoke to someone she thought was Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. The person behind the call wasn’t the Ukrainian statesman at all, though, rather the Russian comedic duo Vovan…
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When Is Star Wars’ Rhyming Poetry Too Much?
Star Wars, on many levels, exists in series of parallels and couplets — a cycle of the rise and defeat of darkness, the fall and rebirth of light, an echo of a story told over and over across generations of families and civilizations. “It’s like poetry, they rhyme,” George Lucas says in the Phantom Menace…
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Silliest Episode Might Also Be Its Most Emotional
Although it has largely treated its characters with great care in its debut season, Star Trek: Strange New World’s general sense of episodic breeziness has also given those characters a light touch — moments of highlights, but nothing too deep with our crewmates. This week’s episode changes that, wrapping up one of its most sincere…