QOTD: What did you love and hate about the Oscars?
Seth MacFarlane sang about boobs, but Argo won Best Picture — yay! Meanwhile Joaquin Phoenix is not amused…
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QOTD: Are the Academy Awards making a good move by rebranding as “the Oscars”?
There may be some things about the Academy Awards that need fixing, but this didn’t seem to be it.
QOTD: Was South African TV right to air a reality show featuring Reeva Steenkamp (even with her family’s approval)?
Is there any parallel universe in which the decision was made not to air this, or was it entirely inevitable, given the buzzardlike nature of pop culture today?
House of Cards (trailer)
Netflix will release all 13 episodes of this new series on Friday.
question of the day: How can we update archetypal stories and characters (such as Sherlock Holmes) to be more gender equitable?
Are there cases where it wouldn’t make the most sense to leave an entire story intact and simply change the protagonist’s gender? Would a better updating be retelling classic stories from the perspective of female characters who would have been on the periphery?
question of the day: Is Arrested Development on Netflix the future of “television”?
The best modern television has become far more novelistic in recent years, and this makes the debut of a new show more like the debut of a novel, something that fans will digest at their own pace that is not being dictated by the show’s creators or by the network airing it.
Doctor Who blogging: “The Snowmen”
This isn’t a story: it’s a wibbly-wobbly fuzzy-wuzzy ball of Doctor Who goo.
Doctor Who thing of the day: “Vastra Investigates” (another Christmas prequel minisode)
Tweaking demure Victorian propriety! Cheeky!
Doctor Who thing of the day: final trailer for Christmas special “The Snowmen”
Yes, that’s Ian McKellen doing the voiceover. And yes, looks like the Doctor’s gonna get snogged again.
