Garhdo Goes Geek

Hello my friends, and welcome back to my blog. So I wanted to talk about Power Rangers today, which is one of my favourite franchises despite its ridiculous, over-the-top and incredibly cheesy nature. I devoted my 75th episode of my podcast to it and discussed how much I love it, especially how it has an interconnected nature that builds a mythology across thirty years of a franchise history. However I freely admit that is is a very repetitive franchise, and for anyone interested in watching it it is an incredibly formulaic show with tropes that you may soon grow tired of, and in many ways this is by design. Power Rangers is a children's television franchise, but more than that it is a Western-made adaptation of a long-running Japanese superhero franchise called Super Sentai. Super Sentai is part of a genre of shows known as "henshin" (transforming) heroes, and is part of a filmmaking style that is quite common in Japan known as tokusatsu, a term which literally translate...

Hello my friends. Welcome back to my blog. Today I wanted to talk a bit about one of my favourite fandoms, and also one of my biggest annoyances, which is Warhammer and its fandom. For those who aren't aware, Warhammer is the name of a series of settings used for games created and published by Games Workshop, a British model-making company based in Nottingham. Warhammer Fantasy Battle was the first game, published in 1983. Inspired by their previous work with Dungeons & Dragons, which Games Workshop got started by publishing content for (including creating the Githyanki, who recently appeared in Baldur's Gate 3 ), but an evolution, designed to use the miniatures Games Workshop had been making in combination with more traditional tabletop RPG mechanics to create a tabletop battle game.  The Warhammer World, as the setting became known, was a fantasy world of heroes and magic, featuring wizards, knights, elves, dwarves, dragons, undead, and orcs in a world full of all the usu...