Katharine Trendacosta's posts

In the last twenty years, fandom and mass culture have basically merged. Fans and fandom spent the 2000s fighting…

“Fandom”—the participatory community that grows out of a piece of media—has come to dominate pop culture. Fandom is…

Spoiler culture—the capital-D Discourse surrounding how much of the plot you should know before heading into a piece…

I come not to bury J.K. Rowling, but to praise her. Harry Potter was an honest to god phenomenon, impacting my…

Previously on Discovery: A botched jump that Captain Lorca maybe caused on purpose caused the ship to end up in…

Dearest io9ers, this is it: After many years and almost as many job titles, it is time for me to say goodbye.

Listen, I give all the props in the world to genre fiction for its persistent casting of stage actors in its…

The star of Star Trek: Discovery has come out and said that her character, disgraced first officer Michael Burnham,…

The midseason finale of Star Trek: Discovery, “Into the Forest I Go,” finally got this show to the place it should…

Tamora Pierce is a prolific author of fantasy books, most of which feature young women as protagonists and many of…

Yesterday, the news dropped that Rian Johnson’s time in the Star Wars universe would not end with The Last Jedi.…

Riverdale is a delightful mess of a show. Absolutely none of it should work, and yet season one was a confounding…

Last night’s “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum” ended on a cliffhanger that sets up a big showdown for next week’s finale.…

Out on a walk by the beach at night, you look out into the sea and see... two skeletons surfing on their coffins.

Hello, and welcome to another installment of “Oh god, why do I keep volunteering to re-read the worst Star Wars Expan…

Harry Mudd (Rainn Wilson) reappeared this week in an episode that took a crack at one of scifi’s most venerable…

If you’ve been sitting around waiting for Discovery to find a balance between classic Trek storytelling and its…

Something that Star Trek: Discovery has thrown up, once again, is all the questions that surround canon. How much of…

Halloween is one week away, and you know what that means: It’s time for the annual collection of utterly confusing…

The goal of Netflix’s Bright is clearly to slam together the tropes of the buddy cop movie with those of fantasy. So…