What If...?: Scream 5

I know, I know, it's been a while and I'm a day late and a dollar short with this one but hey, it's my blog, I can be as late or as early with things as I wanna be, so in this installment of "What If...?" I'm gonna ask the question what if "Scream 5" was good? No, like really good? For those of you who don't know, I am a huge fan of the "Scream" series (the films...the MTV show is...decent enough) and despite all the hate it gets, I actually really enjoy "Scream 3" (don't get me wrong, I do still consider it the weaker of the films, but I digress). The point is, I really do love "Scream". To be completely honest, the "Scream" movies are the last vestiges of 80s slasher flicks, punched up with a modern take on a genre that is since dead. Think about it, not many slashers exist in this day and age. I'm not gonna recap the films here but if you haven't seen all 4 "Scream" movies, do yourself a favor and check them out and then check out "Scream 5".

While I liked "Scream 5" and had fun with it, it could have been MUCH better and while the reveal was obvious, the motive was completely nonsensical to me (I still don't understand their motives). Like any good sequel or part of a series, it should ALWAYS call back to previous installments and remind the viewers that certain events happened to help usher in new and old viewers. After all, if you're making a sequel for a new generation, they're gonna wanna understand the previous installments so that they can understand all the character relationships, otherwise why even bother making a sequel if you're not gonna reference previous installments? So let's ask What if "Scream 5" was really good? And warning there will be spoilers.

Manga Pilot: World's End Harem

So I'm doing a new thing here on the ol' blog and I call it "Manga Pilot". As of late, I've been reading a lot of manga here and there and I decided it'd make for decent content here to review a few of the ones I've been reading. Now I call this manga pilot because for the most part I've been mostly interested in volume ones of series and I'm piloting them to see if I like them enough to maybe either continue with the series or check out the anime. Either way, today I'm offering up an interesting one and on this first installment of "Manga Pilot" we're taking a look at "World's End Harem". While Hulu's "Y: The Last Man" (and I hear the graphic novels are quite good, I haven't read'em) struggled with the incoherence of including trans people in a virus that only kills men, "World's End Harem" gets right to the core of the main issue, avoiding extinction and needing men to procreate. Let's not mince words here, yes, "World's End Harem" is an ecchi title and yes, it does appeal to a common male fantasy, BUT and that's a HUGE but, the actual nature of the issue cannot be avoided and stands up logically with the plot. I'll explain after the break.

DEXTER-ity: Dexter: New Blood

Well, well, well, of all the things coming back I never thought I'd see the day our beloved red-headed human hacker Dexter Morgan would make his return. In many ways, I suppose the producers got what they wanted in the god-awful Season 8 which was supposed to be the series's final season, in which they wanted Dexter to live in hopes of a possible return. Well, welcome to possible and Dexter is back. Going into this limited series I feel trepidation because considering how badly the series was handled after 4 and 5 I can't I'm not worried that some old habits will arise, and we'll get to some of those in a bit. But now that this series has concluded and I've had a few days to digest what I just witnessed how did the series go? Well, welcome one and all to my finale Dexterity, a "Dexter" review, and analysis done by yours truly.