Linda Codega's saved articles
I think shorter seasons need to be applied to most of CWs shows. Especially the DC stuff. They’ve got some cool concepts but they all have so much fluff that disconnect from their arcs each season. Read more
Shorter episode seasons would have trimmed the garbage out, and made for better thought seasons. It was great up until season 6, then it seemed to try to use whatever it could from the garbage bins of other shows and make them stick. I so hated the ending, Dean could have been done so much better. Shit, even if you… Read more
This is literally what that is Read more
It’s wonderful to read these stories. Link’s name comes (apocryphally?) from him being designed to be a player’s ‘link’ into the game world. It’s wonderful that as that world, and the character, have been afforded greater definition through technology and design norms iterating, that thoughtful choices about the… Read more
This is awesome that Link is a character that anyone can project themselves into. I’m a cisgender straight white dude and Link reads as a classic sword and sorcery, saves the princess, fucks up the bad guy sort of character to me. And that’s the kind of protagonist that appeals to me (boring i know). Read more
This was lovely, thanks! Read more
Having a very close family member who is trans and games and has shared similar feelings/views on Link, I appreciate this a lot, Linda. 🍻 Read more