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 Recast-a-Mania! Watch the video version here “Mortal Kombat isn’t about death. It’s about the preservation of life.” This is Def Rec, a very unserious blog about entertainment experiences you will definitely recommend. Movie minutia and television tidbits get ranked, rated, reviewed, and skewed, and in the end, you’ll know which one to Def Rec. I’m Jon McBrine. I’m an authority on popular entertainment and pop culture because I have access to the internet. Just because our heroes don’t want to, or maybe can’t go for another ride on our favorite adventures, that doesn’t mean we have to stop playing—even though sometimes we should stop. Recasting is a fact of Hollywood life, and it happens to the best of them, and sometimes it happens to people we didn’t notice to begin with. For a variety of reasons, an actor or actress may not return to the sequel of whatever cinematic classic they initially appeared in, but the show must go on. From Daphne Maxwell Reid replacing Janet Hubert as A...

Dune: Prophecy, House of the Dragon, or Krypton? Watch the video version here I’ll break down the top three TV series that take place way, way, way before their parent shows, and then I’ll reveal which is the number one pick I recommend. How many times have you been watching your favorite television series and wondered what were the main characters’ grandparents up to back in their day? Prequels provide a peek into the lives of the grandpappies and great-great-grandmas of our beloved heroes. Whether or not there was a high demand to check out the canonical past of these shows remains unclear. What is perfectly clear now is that prequels are a thing, and they’re here to stay. I’ve been on record on this topic before, and I’ll reiterate that I, for one, think the only good prequels have already been made. And frankly, we were lucky as a species that we even got that much. For every Better Call Saul , there are at least 50 utterly pointless prequel shows made. Dexter: Original Sin was a ...