State Of The Blog – January 2023 (Two Weeks Of Hiatus)

happy New Year, everyone. Hope your holidays were as safe and festive as they were happy.

Anyway, first couple weeks of January will be nothing but radio silence. In fact, there will be nothing posted during this time up until January 17th, which will feature the first review of 2023. From there, I’m hoping to start building some semblance of regularity with these posts and trying to get some semblance of a functional schedule up and running. Until then, take care.

(2024 Update: Unless you’re reading this from the new blog, in which case, welcome, and enjoy the few AEW Dynamite Musings that were written back then and never published until now because I forgot about them. Oops.)

The Winners And Losers Of 2022

Holy Sigma Virus, Batman! It’s a New Year! Hopefully, we’ll be off to a better start than 2022.

So with another year in the can, it’s time to go back to that annual tradition where I list all the Winners And Losers of 2022; a list that is highly subjective and is not going to cover every ground that was ever covered in the world because I don’t have the time. As per usual, compiling the list was a bit of a process, but unlike years past, this was actually pretty easy to put together, which is quite nice.

Anyway, enough waffle. Let’s dive into this thing.

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Review #940 – Dragon Quest I-II-III (Switch)

A quick video review (I guess) of the Switch versions of the first three Dragon Quest games that are available digitally or as a Switch cart containing all three games.
This was not what I had in mind for the last review of the year, but this was in the can for a while, so might as well put it out there. That and it fit with the plan to have the first and last reviews of the year be DQ games.
Happy New Year, kids. Later.

Return Of The Jedi – The Final Star Wars Film… Until It Wasn’t

2022 marked the 20th anniversary of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and… well, I wrote a thing on that a while back, so I will spare you that piece of business here.

However, 2022 also marks the 30th anniversary of the third and final film in the original Star Wars Trilogy: Return Of The Jedi. And for seventeen years, it was exactly that; the last Star Wars film. Once the prequels came out, it merely became the final chapter in the Star Wars saga… until the arrival of The Force Awakens in 2015. Now I’m going to set aside all those other films for a moment – or at least, the majority of this write-up – so I can offer the following thoughts on Return Of The Jedi and why it was a satisfactory conclusion to the saga.

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