It’s not easy for a creator to go back to a franchise. Especially one beloved by millions. One that has three films that fans watch over and over, buy multiple versions of on DVD for this extra or that extra … Continue reading →
I finally sat down and watched the first season of True Detective, only some six months after I first mentioned intending to. For me, that’s not a bad turn-around time. It’s a good show, well worth watching. But I’m not … Continue reading →
This post will contain spoilers for the Game of Thrones episode “The Mountain and the Viper” and for the season one finale of Agents of SHIELD. If either of these would bother you, then you should probably stop reading. But … Continue reading →
Blake Snyder has written a very good screenwriting book called Save the Cat.* The idea that gives the book its title is that a gruff or potentially dislikable protagonist can gain viewer sympathy quickly if you show the protagonist saving … Continue reading →
I was just a kid back in the mid-1970s, when my brother and I were first getting into Blue Öyster Cult. Now BÖC has some … eccentric lyrics, which meant that I would often ask my brother what various lines … Continue reading →
I’ve been trying to put my finger on what bothers me about Agents of SHIELD. Well, that’s not entirely true. I feel profound irritation every time they dismiss the existence of powers like telekinesis, telepathy, E.S.P. and other psychic phenomena. … Continue reading →
The original Star Trek series gave us the redshirts – a term, I note, that has grown so popular that my word processor acknowledges it as a word. The concept is even so pervasive that John Scalzi has a successful … Continue reading →
When the heroes (antiheroes, protagonists and so forth) of a show are almost all supernatural, where do the humans fit in? I’ve been thinking about that lately in urban fantasy in general, but the latest season of True Blood has … Continue reading →
So, it’s Thursday and I’m still thinking about Sunday’s Game of Thrones episode. Without going into spoiler-level details, there’s a great scene with Daenerys Targaryen. How good is it? Well, I almost went online and bought a Targaryen house tee-shirt. … Continue reading →
Epic fantasy rules the entertainment world these days. Kicked off by the Lord of the Rings films, epic fantasy has spread from the pages of novels to the big and small screens. George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice … Continue reading →