We know what you’re thinking: with all the new shows we’re excited for, surely we have already filled up our schedules! Somehow, we haven’t. We’ve all still got quite a few returning shows to keep up with, and believe it or not, we don’t even own a single time-turner between the three of us. It’s […]
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A Look Back at This Season’s Returning Shows
We’ve tried to keep our discussion broad, but it goes without saying that there may be spoilers in this post for all shows listed. Tread carefully, ye who enter here. Before the 2015 TV Season began, we posted about our hopes for the season’s new and returning shows. Now that the season has come to […]
Five by Friday: Top Characters on Current TV Shows
Welcome to Five by Friday! All of us here at Avenging Force watch a good amount of TV, and love it when we find a show where the characters feel like fully-formed people. Some of them we want to be best friends with, while others should probably be kept at a safe distance, but every one of these characters keeps us faithfully […]
What is it, to be a (Super)hero?*
First of all, I want to say how stoked I am to officially be joining Avenging Force! I’ve contributed to some posts in the past, and have left several dissertation-length thoughts down in the comments section, but am super excited to now be a bona fide Avenging Forcer. (Force Avenger? Hmm.) For my first non-guest post, […]
Things We Wish Network TV Shows Would Quit Doing
This post discusses many currently-airing TV shows, including Quantico, Agents of SHIELD, Arrow, and How to Get Away With Murder. While we have tried not to give away major plot points, minor spoilers are used here to make or clarify our points. Please tread carefully. Flashbacks as a format Using flashbacks as the structure for […]
Anticipating the Fall 2015 TV Season!
Once again we come to TV premiere season, when new shows debut and returning shows come back to resolve last season’s cliffhangers! We’re both neck-deep in TV shows every year by choice, and in this post we’ll explain those choices (and provide you with some trailer teaser links, because we’re kind and benevolent bloggers). New […]
Off the Rails: Arrow and Quentin Lance
This article contains spoilers for the CW’s Arrow through season 3 episode 11, “Midnight City.” Tread with caution. Team Arrow is is having a bad time lately. Oliver’s death threw a wrench into the way they work. All of them are grieving; Felicity is diving into her work and an apparent new superhero setup with […]
The Sorting Hat: Arrow
Welcome to the first installment of The Sorting Hat! In this series of articles we’re taking characters from our favorite fandoms and sorting them into Hogwarts Houses. This is a thing we do all the time among friends, and we’ve decided to go ahead and make it a recurring thing here at Avenging Force. There’s something […]
Following Up: Fall 2014 TV Premiere Time
This post contains spoilers through the mid-season finales of Arrow, Constantine, The Flash, Gotham, Gracepoint, Grimm, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Sleepy Hollow, and the Walking Dead. Tread with caution! At the beginning of this TV season, we shared our thoughts about upcoming shows and renewals that we were excited about. Now that we’ve gotten past […]
To The Death – No, To The Pain
Disclaimer: This post is overflowing with spoilers for Harry Potter, Arrow, Star Wars EU, The West Wing, Firefly, The Hunger Games, and Battlestar Galactica. Proceed at your own risk. Death is a part of life. Everyone who lives, has to eventually die. Which, when you think about it, really kind of sucks. Sure, it makes […]