Margaret David

Pennsylvania

Freelance writer, bylines at Den of Geek and more. Retro gaming and sci-fi media. I'd love to write for you! She/Her. https://t.co/V8bTaf0ARt

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Articles

The 15 Best Droids In The Star Wars Universe, Ranked

1 week ago | slashfilm.com | Margaret David

When George Lucas released "Star Wars" in 1977, the focus was on the struggle between light and dark, good and evil, built on the simple but satisfying architecture of the Hero's Journey. Yet, terrific casting and state-of-the-art effects helped the story of a struggling Rebellion against an evil Empire grow into a greenhouse of world-building, where every planet had stories and countless races thrived.
The 12 Worst Star Trek Villains Ever, Ranked

4 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Margaret David

"Star Trek" has a villain problem. Since the original series went to air in the fall of 1966, the galaxy-spanning franchise is at its best when sticking to its thoughtful exploration of humanity through an alien lens. What we remember is a series about hope, even when "Deep Space Nine" is brave enough to ask hard questions about colonialism and the lies of utopia.
The 12 Worst Star Trek Villains Ever, Ranked

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Margaret David

4 hours ago"We're so cooked." At the Google I/O 2025 event on May 20, Google announced the release of Veo 3, a new AI video generation model that makes 8-second videos. Within hours of its release, AI artists and filmmakers were showing off shockingly realistic videos. You may have even seen some of these …
The Worst Thing Each Main Character Of Star Trek: The Next Generation Has Done

1 month ago | slashfilm.com | Margaret David

Despite once seeming doomed to fail, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" remains one of the best entry points for new fans open to trying out a "Trek" of their own. The Enterprise D, with its carpet floors, body-hugging uniforms, and a thoughtful, almost philosophical mid-'90s liberal approach to exploration and society is showing its age, but it remains less of a time jump than the original series.
15 Best TV Shows Like Lost

1 month ago | slashfilm.com | Margaret David

It was the fall of 2004, and there was nothing like "LOST." While narrative arcs had finally become part of television, helped by sci-fi predecessors like "Babylon 5" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," "LOST" used the technique to make its mark. It starts with a horrifying airplane incident, a passenger jet splitting in half high in the sky. Three years after 9/11, it was a ballsy play. But the survivors awoke in a tropical paradise, where little was as it seemed.
The 5 Best & 5 Worst Movies About Ancient Egypt

2 months ago | slashfilm.com | Margaret David

While the world has been fascinated with the mysteries of ancient Egypt since Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon stole all the credit for the glorious reveal of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 from the local diggers and historians, the truth of those mysteries rest better in the hands of Egyptians today.
TV Show Endings That Fans Still Argue About To This Day

2 months ago | slashfilm.com | Margaret David

As "Severance" wraps its second season for Apple+, traumatized theorists and shippers on deck slip into the familiar rhythms of the long wait for new adventures in Lumon's cultish underbelly. Scenes will be inspected for clues that might lead us astray (for one thing, that's Helly R.
15 Books You Need To Read If You Love Stephen King

2 months ago | slashfilm.com | Margaret David

So, you've binged all the Stephen King novels you could. You've watched "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Stand By Me." You're paying mild attention to Edgar Wright's upcoming reboot of "The Running Man," and you know Tom Hiddleston ("Loki") will be in "The Life of Chuck." You even tried Max's "Salem's Lot" revival series. That didn't work out too well, huh? Well, we tried to warn you that these vamps were missing their fangs.
10 Scariest Stephen King Monsters, Ranked

Mar 29, 2025 | slashfilm.com | Margaret David

Stephen King makes no bones about turning humans into the real monsters of his stories wherever necessary. For all that Carrie White is a dangerous telekinetic, it's the banal teenage bully and a fanatic mother that puts her over the edge. "Firestarter" stars a rogue government agency willing to manipulate civilians, and "The Stand" may ultimately come down to cosmic horror and angelic good, but it all begins with our hubris among the natural world of viruses.
10 Worst Stephen King Endings, Ranked

Mar 8, 2025 | slashfilm.com | Margaret David

More than one wiseguy writer has uttered some variant on, "It's the journey, not the destination," but let's be honest: If you trek a thousand miles through some of the most beautiful, strange, and intriguing landscapes on Earth only to end up at a Burger King, you may wonder why you've endured so much for a lukewarm box of chicken fries. Sticking the landing is a nightmare for every creator, but not everyone can take the occasional wet plop with aplomb like Stephen King can.