Syfy ruins ‘Being Human’
Proper Being Human is nuanced and subtle. All of that has been stripped out of Syfy’s Being Human. It’s infuriating. And enraging. And completely unnecessary.
Life on Mars
‘Life on Mars’ blogging: Episode 4
Sam’s little-boy idealism about what it means to be a cop gets a 1973 wakeup call…
‘Life on Mars’ blogging: Episode 3
A little push and a little pull is what it takes to survive 1973…
question of the day: What aspects of widespread pop culture can help save the world?
I was Googling around for some information on the U.K.’s equivalent of the Miranda warning, the caution, for my *Life on Mars* blogging, and I came across a most interesting tidbit from Neal Stephenson’s essay “In the Beginning… Was the Command Line”…
‘Life on Mars’ blogging: Episode 2
Sure, the clothes look funny and there’s no cell phones, only giant cackling radios, but that’s a given. It’s all the other unexpectedly different 1973 stuff that’s so disturbing.
‘Life on Mars’ blogging: Episode 1
DCI Sam Tyler has an accident in 2005, and wakes up in 1973. Has he fallen down a rabbit hole, or is he following the Yellow Brick Road?
finally caught up with ‘Ashes to Ashes’: Series One (plus announcing ‘Life on Mars’ blogging)
And my mind is a little bit blown. I don’t think Ashes to Ashes, at least this first batch, is quite as absolutely brilliant genius as proper Life on Mars (we don’t talk about the American abomination here, at least not any more), but it’s close. I’ve had a lot to say about Life on … more…
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Cold Blood”
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode.
classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Twin Dilemma”
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode unless you don’t care to have it spoiled for you.
question of the day: Is there an anti anti-smoking backlash forming?
Some people are bitching about the smoking in Avatar, which is more of the same-old, same-old we’ve been hearing for years now: smoking is evil, won’t someone think of the children, lighting up is worse than murder (at least on film), etc. Now, I’m not a smoker and I never enjoyed being in a smoky … more…
