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Caprica

who is Ebert protege Ignatiy Vishnevetsky?; Hollywood hates Netflix; the FCC delivers smackdowns to broadcasting’s old guard; more: leftover links

Sun, Jan 09, 2011
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Plus: celebs run afoul of Twitter; is True Grit going to the Oscars?; Hurley’s lotto numbers come up (almost); more…

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Syfy blasts final episodes of ‘Caprica’

Mon, Jan 03, 2011
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I’m simultaneously sad, excited, and angry at this news. Is it worth spending another five hours with this series when I know it’s going to end? Why should I invest more time and emotional energy into characters who are going to leave me shortly?

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a few thoughts on ‘Caprica’: “False Labor”

Sun, Oct 31, 2010
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I want to say that I understand why no one was watching Caprica: it’s a tough, complicated downer of a drama about people who are merely trying to figure out how to cope with a tough, complicated world. But so what? Must everything on our TVs be escapist?

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are you gonna watch AMC’s new ‘The Walking Dead’ tonight?

Sun, Oct 31, 2010
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It doesn’t look very terribly different from most of the zombie movies we’ve seen, but I’m hoping that as a weekly drama, that means it will have to focus much more on character than films usually have time for. Perhaps this will be the first zombie apocalypse soap opera…

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how ‘Caprica’ should end; why Roger Ebert hates lists; what the frak is Roland Emmerich up to?; more: leftover links

Sat, Oct 30, 2010
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And: John Landis disses Inception; Foursquare in space; Benedict Cumberbatch is a monster; more…

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what the frak! ‘Caprica’ cancelled!

Thu, Oct 28, 2010
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Bastards. Frak them. If Syfy really believed in the show, they’d have promoted it better, harder, more. But they’d rather just air crap like ‘professional’ ‘wrestling’ and reality junk about ghost hunters.

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a few thoughts on ‘Caprica’: “Things We Lock Away”

Mon, Oct 25, 2010
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You’ve heard of the Bechdel Test, I’m sure: the measure of whether a piece of pop culture is just minimally feminist by featuring at least two women who talk to each other about something besides a man. I love that Caprica passes this test with flying colors in every episode.

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a few thoughts on ‘Caprica’: “Retribution”

Thu, Oct 14, 2010
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Lacy and the STO’s attempt to bomb the Caprica City spaceport is an interesting counterpoint to Clarice’s virtual bombing of the C-Bucs’ stadium. Maybe Clarice is a better leader for a terrorist group that actually wants to achieve its crazy goals.

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a few thoughts on ‘Caprica’: “Unvanquished”

Mon, Oct 11, 2010
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Has everyone gone totally round the bend? Joseph Adama has thrown himself in with the gangsters in full, it seems. Daniel Graystone is about to go to work for them. (Has he never seen whatever the Colonial version of GoodFellas is? ‘Every since I was a kid I wanted to be a Tauron gangster…’)

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: beautiful minimalist posters

Tue, Sep 14, 2010
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The creativity of fans always floors me. Brandon Schaefer makes gorgeous minimalist posters for lots of pop culture, including Doctor Who…

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