Watson’s 20 Favorite Superheroes of All-Time

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I am list crazy these days.  Time to tackle my favorite superheroes ever. This is Gabbing GEEK after all.

I am going to warn you.  My list is DC heavy! Only 4 of my 20 are Marvel characters… and though I like non-mainstream superhero stories, no other company scored a character in the top 20.

I ranked my characters based on their appearance in all mediums: comics, movies, cartoons, and toys.  There are some characters where I liked their film versions, but disliked their comic version so much (Wolverine comes to mind) that they didn’t make the cut!

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Watson’s Top 20 Favorite Books of All-Time

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I have covered my favorite movies, songs, and TV shows.  Next up?

Favorite books!

Remember…favorite. Not Greatest of All-Time, Phil and Misty! 

My list is heavy with fantasy/science fiction (I previously wrote an article on 10 great sci-fi/fantasy books from which this article borrows heavily), business type nonfiction, and biographies.

I realize that I am not terribly literate, even though I have long been an avid reader, so judge accordingly. In other words, you can go to Hell in advance.

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Gabbing Geek Ranks the Franchises

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When the news that the Chris Pine Star Trek films were dead, the Gabbing Geek bullpen erupted in talks of the fate of the franchise.  We started talking about what was next.  What would happen.  How would Trek stay relevant with just streaming series to keep it afloat.

One thing led to another and then we found ourselves ranking geek franchises in an epic LIST OF TRUTH!  Movies.  TV. Comics.  Toys.  Video Games.  Home pregnancy tests.  Everything was considered in the rankings.  Our ballot was originally 20 franchises, to be easy, but I realized I forgot Indiana Jones so we updated to 21.

True to form, we argued about the ones NOT on the list, but did come to a consensus on a definitive Gabbing Geek ranking of Geek Media Franchises!

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Watson’s 25 Favorite TV Shows of All-Time

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I recently counted down my favorite songs of all-time, and mentioned how incredibly difficult that was. Enjoyment of music is so ephemeral, that it took a lot of effort just to get the list to fifty; let alone arrange them in order.

But when I sat down to rank my favorite TV shows, it was a little easier.  As when I ranked my favorite movies, there are some tough choices, but it was mostly around the edges of the list.  What got left off?  What was ranked ahead of another?  The decisions were all within a few spots of each other.

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Watson Ranks the Top 150 Movies of 2018

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By William Watson

It was a really weird year for movies. In 2018, there may not have been a film worthy of Best Picture, but I set a personal record, so there is something worth celebrating.  In this down year in movies, I broke my all-time personal record from 2014 and watched 150 new movies.  So let’s look back at the year in film with my annual review of all the new releases I saw!
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Watson’s Fifty Favorite Songs of All-Time

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Back in the day, there was no more vulnerable of a time than when someone was looking through your CD case.

You knew that they were judging you based solely on the contents of those plastic sheets, in over-sized binders.  Would your tastes be good enough?  Would you be disqualified as a friend or lover because you had one too many candy pop CDs? It was brutal!

Well, here we are.

The modern equivalent of letting you look through my CD case by counting down my Top 50 songs of all-time.

As hard as my Top 25 movies list was, this one was MUCH harder!  Not only is it tough to compare your love for songs, but I also have great tastes in movies.

My taste in music has always been a little suspect… so be gentle…

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Watson Re-Ranks His Top 10 Movies of 2010-2016

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I’ve been ranking my top movies even before we started Gabbing Geek. Sure, I see a LOT more movies now than in 2010 when I first posted my rankings on my Facebook page, but over the years there has always been a Top 10.

I thought it would be fun to go back and re-rank my top ten for 2010-2016 to see how my lists have held up over time (2017 is too recent to have changed much).

Also, I only include movies I saw that year, and not ones I later saw on home video in subsequent years. Trying to stay consistent with my lists, just adding some time based perspective.

Without further a dude…

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Could you have imagined the idea of Avengers: Infinity War back in 1989? (A History of Superhero Adaptation)

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We are about to witness a historic moment in superhero adaptations. Sure we’ve had an Avengers movie or three.

Sure that airport scene in Civil War felt like something out of big summer Annual story.

Sure a movie teaming up Thor, Hulk, Valkyrie, and featuring Dr Strange, felt eventful.

But Infinity War feels like something new and different…

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Could you have imagined the idea of Avengers: Infinity War back in 1989? (A history of superhero adaptations)

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We are about to witness a historic moment in superhero adaptations. Sure we’ve had an Avengers movie or three.

Sure that airport scene in Civil War felt like something out of big summer Annual story.

Sure a movie teaming up Thor, Hulk, Valkyrie, and featuring Dr Strange, felt eventful.

But Infinity War feels like something new and different…

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Gabbing Geek Predicts the Oscars!

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It’s Oscar day!  Usually my favorite day of the year!  Though it is an ecclectic year, I am not sure any of us are really that excited for the show.  Very little chance of a Clue reference in the monologue.  Some chance…but small.

Nonetheless, you expect predictions from Gabbing Geek and here we are.  I will give you my prediciton, tell you who SHOULD win, and maybe give a little commentary.  Then, because he is too lazy to write his own article, Ryan is gonna attach his picks to my article like the parasite he is.  Enjoy!

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