The recent trend here on The Catholic Geeks seems to be video games, and I suppose that means I’ll have to jump on the bandwagon.
I know, it’s absurd — how can I be excited to see a remake of a game that I didn’t like in its original form?
That’s right, folks. Final Fantasy VII has been considered the greatest of the Final Fantasy franchise. It was the first of its kind — the first to use 3D computer graphics, with fully rendered characters on pre-rendered backgrounds — and really brought the Final Fantasy style out of the geek-basement and into the light of more widespread popularity — it made the Japanese role-playing-video-game popular outside of its home market (so, anybody who likes role-playing video games, be sure to thank Final Fantasy VII). To date, it is still the best-selling installment of the franchise, with more than 10 million copies sold as of May 2010.
I haven’t watched much of J. Michael Straczynski’s stuff. Actually, it’s just been Babylon 5. (Heh. “Just.”) Of course, Babylon 5 is enough to convince any sane geek that JMS, as he’s fondly known in order to avoid spelling Belarusian names, is a great storyteller. For the less-sane, he was one of the story writers on the MCU movie Thor, wrote several scripts for Murder, She Wrote (yes, I watched that show as a kid), and has a list of comic book writer credits quite literally longer than my arm unless you use a very small font size. (No, really, I pulled up his Wikipedia page and checked.) JMS is a powerful storyteller, and even a casual glance at his work history will show that his problems usually only arise when someone else is telling him how to write.
There are two things you should know to put this post in context. First, I’m handicapped; I have fibromyalgia and use a cane and wheelchair to get around. In fact, I’m coming up on my 10th anniversary of getting my very first cane. Second, 
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Defending Joss Whedon on The Catholic Geek
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So we had some fun, first about video games, then about Age of Ultron.