Author: John Morton

  • Stewie Griffin reveals true self, yet raises more questions

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    Fittingly, this weekend’s new episode of Family Guy  goes by the title “V is for Mystery.” According to a brief teaser printed on Futon Critic, it will be another one of the recurring Brian-Stewie Griffin adventures, this time with a classic 19th-century Great Britain backdrop. Little else is known going in, except how hard it…

  • Rich heritage allows Buffalo to inspire

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    The Winter Olympics take on a heightened significance for Dartmouth senior goalie Devin Buffalo. While he has no participation record or close connection to the event, he is a well-traveled athlete. He has taken his duffel bag through a variety of North American locations. And he once took his backpack through Europe, as he fondly…

  • Selfless service characterizes Sidney Peters

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    During the winter months, college hockey players rarely have enough time to sleep. With rigorous academic work, a long season and extracurricular endeavors, they must balance multiple responsibilities. The offseason provides more opportunities for players to explore interests outside hockey. For Minnesota women’s goaltender Sidney Peters, this has amounted to countless miles traveled and countless hours of community service.…

  • CLE teammates have prime perspective on pen-pushers

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    With AHL teams comprised of North American and overseas players, teammates rarely share much more than a love for the game. A stark exception exists in the 2017-18 Cleveland Monsters’ locker room. Rookie defenseman Doyle Somerby and veteran goaltender Brad Thiessen each have a background in journalism studies. Both Somerby, a Boston University graduate, and Thiessen, who attended Northeastern from 2006 to 2009, knew immediately…

  • Fourth Fuller House season imperative after resolving D.J. dilemma

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    Fuller House recently capped its third season wrapping up the main story arc fans have been following for its 44 Netflix episodes. Actually, it is more accurate to say that it provided a satisfying conclusion to its ABC predecessor’s cliffhanger at the end of its final season. That allusion refers to the resolution of D.J.’s…

  • Why can’t Freeform stick to Christmas for its 25 Days?

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    Home Alone usually airs in most households during the Christmas season. But curiously, while the holiday classic was in Freeform’s Countdown to the 25 Days of Christmas lineup, it has since disappeared from the current 25 Days of Christmas block. This decision makes one look at the lineup with a more critical lens. The 2017 slate features Christmas classics such as Elf,…

  • Avengers assemble for epic finale in Infinity War trailer

    Avengers assemble for epic finale in Infinity War trailer

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    This past Tuesday, Marvel Entertainment posted an Avengers: Infinity War teaser. The company promised a trailer for the highly-anticipated film would drop the next day. Following through on that promise, the movie’s first trailer logged literally millions of views by the hour on the day of its release. Of course, fans will still have to wait until May for…

  • AFA’s Dylan Abood helps MIT’s solar power play

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    Dylan Abood had more cause for satisfaction on the weekend of Nov. 10 and 11 than the end of his team’s losing skid. While Air Force tied Holy Cross for its first point in five games, he got to hear about the progress of his summer’s work off the ice. The senior defenseman spent his…

  • Can The Walking Dead build on ‘Some Guy’ back to its original appeal?

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    Over its last two seasons, AMC’s The Walking Dead has lost what made the show enjoyable. Originally, the zombie apocalypse setting remained interesting because the human characters often made decisions that made them worse than the title figures they fought. No conflict made that more apparent than that between protagonist Rick Grimes and the Governor. By Season 4,…

  • Thinker confrontation should be The Flash’s Season 4 payoff

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    Team Flash has its winning formula back with comic relief, having restored to the equation. Now it needs to stare down its clear-cut No. 1 enemy to culminate the crowd-pleaser. This is, after all, still a superhero series. CW’s The Flash never took itself too seriously. A forensic scientist gaining superhuman speed when a particle accelerator explodes should constitute…