Telling the truth of Julian Chase's apparent death and the gen:LOCK program, focusing on his estranged relationship with his former girlfriend, widening the cast with a motley team of recruits, boosting the action with a Union spy — this episode advances the web series forward in spite of a few dubious plot devices.
Tag: Science-fiction
My 2 Cents on gen:LOCK, Episode 1, “The Pilot”
If gen:LOCK can develop its characters and its mech-filled world well, I can easily see it become as enthralling as RWBY.
Project Super Nex, Chapter Twenty-Four: Quentin’s Wishes
The dust covered Arcaipolis in a dense sheet, shadowing the structures that the explosion had blown apart. The particles began to swirl through the city and pellet the Grimhet carcasses and the remnants of buildings, statuary, and roads. Some were pitted fiercely enough that they crumbled apart even further and were blown off the ground. … Continue reading Project Super Nex, Chapter Twenty-Four: Quentin’s Wishes
Project Super Nex, Chapter Twenty-Three: Fuchsia Light
Sidney lumbered up a road to another city square before she staggered to her knees. In turn Wyatt slumped out of her arms and thumped onto the plinth of a soldier statue. "Comrades!" Corbin exclaimed from down the road, running ahead of the others. "What's hampering the two of you?" They slowed down within ten … Continue reading Project Super Nex, Chapter Twenty-Three: Fuchsia Light
Project Super Nex, Chapter Twenty-Two: The Commodore’s Festering Poisons
Wyatt, Cooper, and Gene couldn't fly out into a large room of Andropis for two seconds before holographic cuffs materialized around their arms and legs, suspending them directly in front of an Andropes. She regarded them with an amiable, unassuming smile. "I'm honored to meet you, Mr. Durrell. I love your staunch morals." She took … Continue reading Project Super Nex, Chapter Twenty-Two: The Commodore’s Festering Poisons
Project Super Nex, Chapter Twenty-One: Audeus Maxum
One swift step after another was how Freye Urewlil exited the Hereborg, moving down a statue-flanked passage that veered toward a nearby village. On most days and nights people stuffed their way through the roads and set off a clamor. But on this particular night, no one was outside and all the foods, spices, and … Continue reading Project Super Nex, Chapter Twenty-One: Audeus Maxum
Project Super Nex, Chapter Twenty: Nekotaros’s Charity
A palpable buzz ran through Wyatt, chilling his spine. The rest of the team exchanged quick, tense looks. They were in Lunatark. Wyatt looked straight up at the head guard and said, "We believe that something here will help to cure a disease." The head guard immediately unclipped a rod from his pike, flicked it … Continue reading Project Super Nex, Chapter Twenty: Nekotaros’s Charity
Project Super Nex, Chapter Nineteen: Nexbrug
"If memory serves me properly, Advisor Wiley led an expedition here that uncovered the primitive form of the Super Nex virus," Gene said, peering out the window as the pod boosted from the satellite garage to a platform hovering next to one of six planet fragments adhered in a gravitational ring; the segment with the … Continue reading Project Super Nex, Chapter Nineteen: Nexbrug
Project Super Nex, Chapter Eighteen: Trust
"The white button, not the red one, you skinny geek! The white button!" Gene's hand stopped whizzing over the dashboard. "Your guidance is marvelously impassioned. Would you like to indulge it?" He motioned to his own pilot's chair. "I'd love to. In fact, I will." Penelope threw off her seatbelt and zipped off her seat, … Continue reading Project Super Nex, Chapter Eighteen: Trust
Project Super Nex, Chapter Seventeen: Shemoaniir’s Treasure
"Okay, Sid, I know how much ya love wanderin' 'cross offbeat rags, but ya gotta put that scarf away. For cryin' out loud, it's too twenty-third century!" "The SPACE Union flyer is timeless!" Sidney, sitting on a beanbag chair, reached up to her neck to adjust the fringed scarf. Embroidered on it was a conical … Continue reading Project Super Nex, Chapter Seventeen: Shemoaniir’s Treasure
2 Cents Critic 