Day: April 27, 2015

Fantasy, Recaps, Television5 Comments

NOC Recaps Game of Thrones: What’s in a Name?

Keith Chow

More than any other series on television, an episode of Game of Thrones can often feel like 48 minutes of watching players set up a chessboard wherein, to paraphrase another classic HBO series, “all the pieces matter.” Last night’s episode, “High Sparrow,” was no different. And in the case of the dueling queens — Margaery and Cersei — they were literally moving a pawn around the chessboard in the form of King Tommen. But despite brief detours following the Lannister siblings’ plights in both King’s Landing and Volantis, the episode was mainly about (three of) the surviving Stark children and each one’s struggle to accept, reject, or reclaim their name.

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DC Comics, Movies, N.O.C. One-Shot5 Comments

N.O.C. One-Shot: Batman v Superman and What’s Wrong with DC Movies

The Nerds of Color

Stay tuned for a longer conversation between Keith, Raymond, and Jordan Calhoun, from Black Nerd Problems, about all things Daredevil. In the meantime, the trio took a moment to discuss the Batman v Superman trailer and what it portends for DC’s Cinematic Universe.

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Interview, Marvel, Television7 Comments
A smiling Daredevil action figure sits in front of a computer monitor, arms raised above his head triumphantly. The opening sequence from the Netflix series Marvel's Daredevil plays on the screen behind him with a newly added audio track selected in the settings menu that reads: "ENGLISH - AUDIO DESCRIPTION." In the corner are two hashtags in red text: ‪#‎Dare2Describe‬ ‪#‎HellYeah‬

The Fight for Audio Description on Netflix’s Daredevil

Alice Wong

When Marvel’s much-anticipated Daredevil premiered on Netflix on April 10, the disability community, especially the nerds with disabilities, looked forward to the series in appreciation of the genre, the comic books, and in particular, the blind protagonist, Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil. Unlike other popular superheroes with disabilities that might be cyborgs, mutants, or aliens, Matt Murdock became blind in an accident, a very human and mundane event, nothing supernatural or alien about it. Yes, the radioactive isotopes that he was exposed to gave him certain abilities, but his lived experience as a blind man in a non-blind world also gave him certain skills that became as useful as his heightened senses, ability to take a beating, and mastery of the martial arts.

Very soon after the release of Daredevil on Netflix, people began to realize that blind Netflix users could not enjoy Daredevil’s adventures since the series did not come with audio description.

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