Garhdo Goes Geek

Hello my friends, and welcome back to my blog. Today I wanted to talk about several topics that have been on my mind for several months now, but have all kind of come to head and coalesced after an article from Variety last year that seems to have highlighted just how prevalent these issues have become, and how long they have been an issue.  The article published by Variety in October 2024, titled " Toxic Fandom: How Hollywood Is Battling Fans Who Are ‘Just Out for Blood’", and available  here , starts by discussing some prominent examples of recent toxicity levelled by fans towards some high profile shows, before exploring several steps that studios are taking in order to prevent these vitriolic pushbacks, with one idea specifically cited being that of special "superfan" focus groups to assess marketing materials for major franchise projects, in addition to standard focus testing groups.  Now focus group testing is a important part of any film and television pro...

Hello my friends. Welcome back to my blog. Today I'm sharing something similar to my previous watch orders, and that is a timeline for the combined universe of the Alien, Predator and Prometheus films.  This is a universe I've been a fan of for a long time, and I did a very in-depth episode (one of my longest in fact) on the then twelve films in this combined franchise. Since then however more films, video games, comics and novels have continued to add lore to this universe, and as it now stands this is a series that spans a timeframe of over a thousand years, from the early 18th Century deep into the far future, with a variety of comic series and novels from several different publishers all building on this world.  As a result this turned out to be one of my most complex projects to date, as while I was always planning to add the available video games, all of the recent short films, as well as certain comics and novels to this list, I instead found that many of the newer comi...