Guest Blog Posts

With my monthly column for legendary women and occasional posts on Thought Catalog, I guest blog more than I blog on my own site. The thought occurred that I and others might want to find them all. So here they are:

Legendary Women

Game of Thrones Season Six Wrap Up June 2006

DC Bombshells Rewrite History Mar 2016

“Is it more sexist not to hit you?”- The Women of Deadpool Feb 2016

Comparing Rey Amberle and Wonder Woman Jan 2016

2015 Geek Girl Power Comics Shopping Guide Part 1

2015 Geek Girl Power Comics Shopping Guide Part 2

2015 Geek Girl Power Comics Shopping Guide Part 3

Skye’s Heroine’s Journey 2015

Supergirl Pilot 2015

Joss Whedon’s X-Men 2015

Doctor Who and Missy 2015

CW’s Vixen 2015

The MCU Black Widow 2015

Game of Thrones Season 5 2015

 

Also article and interview about my Buffy and the Heroine’s Journey:

http://www.legendarywomen.org/content/buffy-and-her-journey-heroine

http://legendarywomen.org/content/valerie-frankel-author-buffy-and-heroines-journey-interview

Thought Catalog

Hot Teen Vampires And Werewolves: How Did They Start, And More Importantly, Who Gets The Girl? 22 Mar 2016

Game Of Thrones Season Five Wrap Up: The Book vs The Show And Where We’re Going

One of the big disappointments for me (and I’m not the only one) were the Sand Snakes.

28 Jul 2015

How Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Is Very Joss Whedon

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has returned, and to no one’s surprise, Skye’s new plot expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe while simultaneously transforming her into a superhero.

8 Apr 2015

The “Strange, Young-Old” Peter Capaldi Will Bring Doctor Who Back To Its Origins

More to the point, this Doctor is on a mission to find the Time Lords and restore the balance, returning the series to, perhaps, its mid-series premise of a “secret-agent-man” Doctor taking orders from the higher-ups and interpreting them to his rebellious liking.

20 Aug 2014

12 Game Of Thrones Mysteries That Are Going To Drive You Crazy

Who will win? Who will finally take the Iron Throne?

11 Jun 2014

“The Day Of The Doctor” And The Hero’s Journey

“The Day of the Doctor” is a perfect Hero’s Journey arc…if “The Night of the Doctor” (the brief online minisode available here) is included.

26 Nov 2013

Game Of Thrones Recap: Thoughts On The Season 3 Finale And Beyond

After last week’s WHAM! of an episode, viewers approached with trepidation. However, this episode was mainly wrap-up. Walder Frey gloated, Joffrey gloated, Tyrion and Tywin debated ethics, Tyrion broke the news to Sansa, Arya took a very small revenge.

10 Jun 2013

Other Websites

Hogwarts Professor: Aug 21, 2013 – Mortal Instruments: City of Bones and Alchemy

Denise Derrico’s Key of Dee: Jan 2016  Why Rey Needs a Light-Chakram 

So Many Goodies Seen on Agents of SHIELD: The Dirty Half Dozen

In the episode before Agents of SHIELD, there are many foreshadowings, nods, and tie-ins:

Baron Von Strucker and his flunky List are experimenting on Gifted people –the SHIELD agents go into one of his secret bases and rescue Deathlok and the Inhuman Lincoln,  but “the twins” are still in custody. List finally escapes to meet up with Baron Strucker  in Sokovia,

Coulson tells Jemma to “suit up” — everyone said this in the Avengers film.

Skye’s mother fears their base will be discovered. With Skye’s return to her friends and Lincoln in their custody, this seems likely. Raina meanwhile, seems to want to lead the Inhumans.  Cal returns to the base, still unstable, still wanting his daughter returned.

Coulson vows to make up his secret-keeping to May but doesn’t actually do it.  She doesn’t completely trust him at this point.

Skye uses her powers, no controlled, in a firefight. She wears her superhero gloves.

Jemma tries to kill Ward, revealing how far she’s gone over to the dark side. Ward meanwhile seems to belive you don’t betray your team and relishes being with them –he seems, like Spike or Angel (or Wesley, Jayne, Willow, and countless others) to want a role among them after betraying them.

Coulson exerts his power — he gives Gonzales the Toolbox but warns him he won’t have it long. He also finds the Staff of Loki for Agent Hill (who cameos), he mentions Fury’s alive (and thus Gonzales wasn’t in the know) and prepares Theta Protocol … and the Avengers.

Bobbi has misgivings about locking up Skye. Mac and Hunter reconcile. The two SHIELD teams are now all stuck in one base, ostensibly working together. Coulson thinks Fury will come soon and settle the chain of command. He also thinks the council is silly.

Raina ends the episode foreseeing men of metal destroying cities and the Staff of Loki playing a part.

All the AgentsofSHIELD & Marvel eastereggs appear in my book he Avengers Face Their Dark Sides http://www.amazon.com/Avengers-Face-Their-Dark-Sides-ebook/dp/B00WCLEGDW This will be a Free Kindle Book this Thurs-MOn Happy SuperheroDay