my reads: ‘WWW: Wake’ and ‘WWW: Watch’ by Robert J. Sawyer
I love Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer’s science fiction because it’s so humanist, even more so than the genre tends to be…
Flashforward
because ABC, the bastards, cancelled ‘FlashForward’
I officially give up on the major networks. I officially refuse to get involved with any new series they might want to offer us until at least the second season. It happened last year, with Kings: the only decent new show worth watching, one with a strikingly original concept, one that was about more than … more…
more adventures in corporate Hollywood totally misunderstanding the Internet
I wrote recently about how the people behind Kick-Ass missed a golden opportunity to engage with fans of the film when they failed to do anything with the domain redmist.org, which features prominently in the film. Two more examples of the same mystifying failure cropped up over the past few days. Last Thursday’s installment of … more…
‘Doctor Who’ breaks ratings records in the U.S.
But it’s not quite how it sounds. The Mirror: The first episode of the new Dr Who series was watched by 1.2 million viewers at the weekend. This is the biggest draw BBC America has ever had. And it’s pretty good for a basic cable channel that doesn’t even reach huge chunks of the American … more…
bias update: March 29
obsession: Canadian TV (and film) (because I’m hungry for something new and good) boyfriend: Jack Davenport in FlashForward (because he’s just basically the most perfect man ever) psyched: Matt Smith’s debut as the Doctor (though I’m dreading it a little, too, like I haven’t since Tom Baker regenerated into Peter Davison… and I was already … more…
John Barrowman serenades the Doctor, an Icelandic blockbuster, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ a disaster?, more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
how to create a male sex slave, Kevin Smith is fat, ‘FlashForward’s gonna suck, more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
question of the day: Is ABC trying to kill ‘FlashForward’?
Damn, was I pissed when I got to the end of last week’s episode of FlashForward and saw the little notice ABC snuck in there that the show wouldn’t be returning till March. (Sci Fi Wire is mad as hell, too.) I had been figuring, all during the episode, that they were gonna hit us … more…
watch it: the first 8 minutes of ‘V’
Okay, I know it’s gonna be stupid, and I know ABC is gonna jerk us around by airing the first four episodes and then pulling the show till next year, but I can’t help it — I’m psyched. Spectacular in some ways, but that is so not New York City. Hmm, could it be, I … more…
