Archive for the ‘TV’ Category
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Read moreOn Loyalty
Posted by It takes a lot to invest your time into a TV series when there are so many to choose from. If a show doesn’t connect in its first episode, many (i.e., millions of) viewers will give up immediately. Each episode each week needs to further this connection by giving more to those who’ve been invested […]
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Read moreOrphan Black – a TV Show Worth Cloning
Posted by It feels like it’s been a long time since I’ve been excited about watching a show. For perhaps the past year or so, television to me has been all about spoon-feeding the audience the plot, releasing shallow and singular-dimensional characters into the ether, and producing gratuitously sexed-up or violent scenes – because they look good […]
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Read moreWe Love Our Browncoats, So Firefly Can Never Come Back
Posted by I love Firefly. But I don’t want it to come back anymore. Not in the format and with the characters we’d recognise. Here’s why. 1/ Fox still own it. They’d just kill it again. If we love our Browncoats, we don’t want to re-subject them to the Fox environment. Ok ok, assume this can be […]
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Read moreFantasy FTW!
Posted by The TV world seem to be asking us to jump on their next genre bandwagon; Fantasy. Magic, Maidens, Madmen, Mystery and Medieval garments. I’m not saying it’s the first time fantasy has poked it’s head up on a screen of course – you have your Hercules and Xena, Heath Ledger’s Roar, Legend of the Seeker, […]
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Read moreThe Return of Firefly
Posted by “When your miracle gets here, you just pound this button once. It’ll call back both shuttles.” – Wash, ‘Out of Gas’ It’s been an exciting week for Browncoats. Unless you’re living on a border planet, you’ll have undoubtedly seen this from Captain Tightpants himself Nathan Fillion in a recent interview on EW, discussing the return […]