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The Top Five Best-Worst Moments of the Wheel of Time

Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:00am 62 comments 11 Favorites [+]

Oh my God, Becky, look who’s back: me, with a Wheel of Time post! Again! What a world, what a world.

Today’s post completes my thoroughly odd trilogy of Best Moments and Worst Moments in the Wheel of Time, by adding a third category to what anyone normal would consider a dichotomy: a list of the Best Worst Moments of the Wheel of Time. Or maybe the Worst Best Moments?

Look, I don’t know, you don’t know, nobody knows, it’s fine. This whole thing is mainly just an excuse to be all like, hey, remember when that thing happened in the Wheel of Time and we all had feelings about it?, so I feel like everyone will be okay and have a good time with it in the end.

So if having feelings about Wheel of Time things seems like your bag, click on!

[it is so big]

Top Five Worst Moments of The Wheel of Time

Mon Mar 5, 2018 9:00am 124 comments 10 Favorites [+]

Look lively there, Tor.com, for I have brought you: an argument.

Specifically, an argument about the Wheel of Time, one of our favorite tried-and-true sources of argumentation round these parts. And even more specifically, as a complement to my recently-posted Top Five Moments of WoT, this is an argument about which are (gasp) the Top Five Worst Moments of the Wheel of Time. Oooooooooooooh…

And don’t forget, once you’re done arguing, to go and check out Tor.com’s newest font of WOT Argumentating: Kelsey Jefferson Barrett’s Read (not Reread!) of the Wheel of Time. Good times!

But first, with great vengeance and furrrrious anger (but, you know, polite vengeance and anger, be nice, y’all), click on!

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Top Five Moments of The Wheel of Time

Mon Feb 26, 2018 9:30am 154 comments 23 Favorites [+]

Say hay, Tor.commers, this is your Auntie Leigh, coming at you live-ish with a true blast from the past: a Wheel of Time post! From me! ZOMG!

Yes, indeed, in honor of the fresh new take we are getting on our favorite flagship series here in High Craggy Hill Land, the powers that be have asked me to revisit my, er, well-preserved and thoroughly seasoned take on the Wheel of Time and serve up some Best Of/Worst Of realness, for the pleasure of your eyeballs and the outrage to your moral sensibilities! Which I am of course always happy to provide.

In this post, O My Peeps, we will take a look at my not-even-slightly-biased opinion on the Top Five Best Moments of the Wheel of Time, which will naturally agree with everyone’s opinion of the top five moments of the Wheel of Time, right?

Right! Come and be gloriously incensed by all the obvious rightness, y’all! Whee!

[We’re leaving together/ But still it’s farewell/ And maybe we’ll come back/ To earth, who can tell?]

Resurrect Your Whimsy: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Fri Jan 26, 2018 12:00pm 36 comments 4 Favorites [+]

Welcome to 2018, Tor.com! How about a new Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia to celebrate? That’s what I thought you said!

Today’s entry is that grand disaster of 1988: Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen!

Previous entries can be found here. Please note that as with all films covered on the Nostalgia Rewatch, this post will be rife with spoilers for the film.

And now, the post!

[“I don’t have time for flatulence and orgasms!”]

Series: Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia

Oooh, A Sparkly: The Secret of NIMH

Thu Dec 21, 2017 1:00pm 14 comments 4 Favorites [+]

Happy almost holidays, Tor.com! Please join me for the last Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia of the year, won’t you?

Today’s entry is by popular request: 1982’s animated classic The Secret of NIMH! Yay!

Previous entries can be found here. Please note that as with all films covered on the Nostalgia Rewatch, this post will be rife with spoilers for the film.

And now, the post!

[Oh! The poor turkey fell down!]

Series: Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia

Say Hello to the Very Hot Night: The Lost Boys

Thu Nov 9, 2017 1:00pm 18 comments 2 Favorites [+]

You’re a creature of the night, a Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia, Michael! Just wait till Mom finds out, buddy!

You guessed it: today’s MRGN covers that actually good teen vampire movie of 1987: The Lost Boys!

Previous entries can be found here. Please note that as with all films covered on the Nostalgia Rewatch, this post will be rife with spoilers for the film.

And now, the post!

[“Kill your brother. You’ll feel better.”]

Series: Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia

“Bonjour, Je Veux Mon Livre”: Hocus Pocus

Thu Oct 19, 2017 1:00pm 14 comments 4 Favorites [+]

Happy pre-Halloween, Tor.com! In celebration of the encroaching Pumpkin Spice Day, please accept this humble offering of one of the Butler Sisters’ all-time favorite holiday movies: 1993’s Hocus Pocus! Whoo!

Previous entries can be found here. Please note that as with all films covered on the Nostalgia Rewatch, this post will be rife with spoilers for the film.

And now, the post!

[It’s the chocolate covered finger of a man named Clark!]

Series: Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia

Meandering with a Mazy Motion: Xanadu

Thu Sep 28, 2017 2:30pm 32 comments 2 Favorites [+]

A million lights are dancing, Tor.com, so come and see what I thought of a place no box office dared to go!

Yes, the Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia is covering that most interesting of failures: 1980’s Xanadu! With a guest appearance by Brother-in-Law Peter!

Previous entries can be found here. Please note that as with all films covered on the Nostalgia Rewatch, this post will be rife with spoilers for the film.

And now, the post!

[also, the voice of Zeus was totally Colonel Pickering, and I’m DASHED]

Series: Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia

Still Not a Relic: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Thu Sep 14, 2017 1:00pm 68 comments 7 Favorites [+]

Good afternoon, Doctor Jones – and Tor.com! Please join the Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia for a movie whose awesomeness neither the years nor the mileage can bury in the sand: 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark! With special guest appearance by Nephew Remy!

Previous entries can be found here. Please note that as with all films covered on the Nostalgia Rewatch, this post will be rife with spoilers for the film.

And now, the post!

[Guess I’ll have to bust out my old Tomb Raider games now]

Series: Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia

At Least It’s Not Grain Storage: Stargate

Thu Aug 31, 2017 1:00pm 68 comments 9 Favorites [+]

Dust off your sarcophagi and bust out your sunscreen, Tor.com, because the Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia is back, with: 1994’s Stargate! They do the sand dance, dontcha know!

(And if you immediately got that reference: congratulations, you’re old. Whee!)

Previous entries can be found here. Please note that as with all films covered on the Nostalgia Rewatch, this post will be rife with spoilers for the film.

And now, the post!

[oh way oh]

Series: Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia

You Just Digested the Bad Guy: Innerspace

Thu Aug 10, 2017 1:00pm 14 comments 4 Favorites [+]

Howdy, Tor.com! The MRGN is back, with a big fave of the Butler Sisters: 1987’s Innerspace! Action! Adventure! Theistic hysteria! The funniest depiction of bodily fluids in cinema history! Yay!

Previous entries can be found here. Please note that as with all films covered on the Nostalgia Rewatch, this post will be rife with spoilers for the film.

And now, the post!

[Here they have a lot of fun/ Puttin’ trouble on the run]

Series: Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia

Negative, I am a Meat Popsicle: The Fifth Element

Thu Jul 27, 2017 3:00pm 50 comments 12 Favorites [+]

Ladies and gentlemen and beings of indeterminate provenance! I present to you the MRGN post of a thousand and one follies, jollies and lick ‘em lollies: 1997’s The Fifth Element! Supergreen!

Previous entries can be found here. Please note that as with all films covered on the Nostalgia Rewatch, this post will be rife with spoilers for the film.

And now, the post!

[Aziz, LIGHT!]

Series: Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia

We Are the Weirdos, Mister: The Craft

Thu Jul 6, 2017 3:00pm 16 comments 3 Favorites [+]

It is better that you should run upon this blade than miss today’s Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia, Tor.com!

Okay, maybe not actually. But as today’s MRGN is covering that Gothic wonder of 1996, The Craft, I bet you’ll be pretty sorry that you missed it. So come and see!

Previous entries can be found here. Please note that as with all films covered on the Nostalgia Rewatch, this post will be rife with spoilers for the film.

And now, the post!

[By the power of three times three, let them click, let them click]

Series: Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia

Spaceballs Brakes for Nobody

Thu Jun 22, 2017 1:00pm 26 comments 2 Favorites [+]

Thank you for pressing the self-destruct button, Tor.com. This website will self-destruct in two minutes! Okay, not really. But maybe you should read this post at ludicrous speed, just in case.

That’s right: today’s Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia is one of the most parodiest of all sci-fi film parodies: 1987’s Spaceballs! Whoo!

(I apologize in advance, by the way, for the sheer number of gifs under the cut. But I just couldn’t help myself!)

Previous entries can be found here. Please note that as with all films covered on the Nostalgia Rewatch, this post will be rife with spoilers for the film.

And now, the post!

[Nice dissolve!]

Series: Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia

That Magic Technique: Dark City’s Influence on Modern Sci-Fi

Thu May 25, 2017 1:00pm 39 comments 7 Favorites [+]

Wait, don’t hang up, Tor.com! Do you find yourself lurking in shadows, memory gone, wondering if anything around you is real?

Well then, you’ll fit right in with this post, for today’s Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia covers one of my personal faves, 1998’s dark and twisty neo-noir offering of Dark City!

Previous entries can be found here. Please note that as with all films covered on the Nostalgia Rewatch, this post will be rife with spoilers for the film.

And now, the post!

[It’s a Small World Afte- BLAM]

Series: Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia

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