September 2010
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Fall TV viewing Schedule
I’ve got a lot of shows I’ll be tuning in for during the coming fall TV season. Here’s a list. They’ve all started already or will start in the coming week, unless otherwise noted.
I won’t be watching all of these shows every week, but still… it’s a lot.
Boardwalk Empire Sundays at 9:00 on HBO This show has been getting a lot of good press recently....
August 2010
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: a reivew
[TAKE NOTE! I write the following review from the point of view of someone who read and loved the comics before seeing the film. This is my perspective, and it’s the only one I have, so of course it colors my impressions of the film very heavily. But you don’t need to worry: If you’ve only read the comics and don’t want to know how the film differs, I won’t spoil...
June 2010
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The Whedoning: Week Two
The Whedoning is my review blog where I’m watching Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, and other Joss Whedon stuff, all in order, and writing a blog post on each one.
The second week just wrapped up, so here’s a roundup of my reviews.
Buffy 1x04 - “Teacher’s Pet”
Frankly, “Teacher’s Pet” is a pretty uninteresting episode of Buffy, which is a bit of...
Behind the Sofa: "This Week, on a Very Special...
My review of Doctor Who: Vincent and the Doctor is up on Behind the Sofa. In short:
Vincent and the Doctor hasn’t done anything to rehabilitate my flagging appreciation for Amy as a character, and it’s probably not the best episode of the series so far (it has been a pretty strong year). But it was witty, it looked fantastic, and yes, like some of my acquaintances in the Doctor...
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The Whedoning: Week One
The Whedoning is my review blog where I’ll be watching Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, and other Joss Whedon stuff, all in order, and writing a blog post on each one.
The first week just wrapped up, so here’s a roundup of my reviews.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992 film):
I only watched this film reluctantly. Why? Mostly because Joss Whedon has basically disowned it. He’s...
May 2010
5 posts
The Whedoning: Buffy: What's to Come
The Whedoning, my year-long Buffy rewatch/blog project, kicks off next week with the Buffy film, the unaired pilot, and the first three episodes of the show’s first televised season.
But first, I’ve posted some preliminary remarks:
The more I think about Buffy and try to boil it down to one core statement of the show, the more it slips away, and I’m having a hard time finding anything...
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Thoughts on LOST: The End
So. Wow.
Lost is over now, and there are so many thoughts swimming through my head now, but a rather large proportion of those thoughts involve the controversial final scenes of the finale. So I wanted to write a few words on those scenes.
But then it turned into a massive and rambling blog post. So here it is, without too much editing.
Prepare for much spoiling after the jump.
There was a...
Behind the Sofa: "Finale Envy"
My review of Doctor Who: The Hungry Earth is up at Behind the Sofa.
There are some Who fans who’ll think I’m insane, because I disliked last week’s ambitious and heavily psychological Amy’s Choice, but thoroughly enjoyed The Hungry Earth, which amounts to what Erik of Bridging the Rift described as “Who-by-numbers.” Indeed, this week’s story is in a lot of ways...
On Behind the Sofa: "Beggars Can't be Choosers" →
My review of last week’s (rather lackluster, I thought) episode of Doctor Who is up over on Behind the Sofa.
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