Archive for the ‘TV’ Category
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Read moreThe Ambivalence of Content
Posted by A couple of months ago while browsing Netflix with my son, we stumbled on the Dreamworks reboot of Voltron. 6-year-old me was a fan of the original in the 80’s. I remembered little of why, just that I was and desperately wanted a lion figurine (but never got one). With my son’s interest in Transformers (sigh), […]
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Read moreCan more TV Shows be like Forever, please?
Posted by Combine Sherlock, Castle, and Torchwood and what do you get? A great new US show called Forever. In this vampire-crazy time we live in there’s been a ton of books, shows and films come out dealing with the topic of immortality, most exploring what humans become when they can live indefinitely. Forever, on the surface, […]
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Read moreWhat’s Not to Love: The Musketeers
Posted by All for one and one for all – the well-recognisable motto of the main characters created by Alexandre Dumas, writer of The Three Musketeers. There have been many interpretations of Dumas’ famous novel, from film to musical to comic to even video game. This year, the BBC took on an adaption crafted by Adrian Hodges […]
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Read moreOutlander, What Are You!
Posted by How awesome does this sound; a time-travel love story, set in Jacobite-era Scotland. What kind of show are you expecting when you hear this? Maybe something a bit timey-wimey? Some amazingly kitted out, action-packed Jacobite rebellion battles? I certainly didn’t expect this: Or this: Outlander, based on the novel by Diana Gabaldon which is classified […]
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Read moreThe George Lucas Effect
Posted by I was reading an article recently that was exploring whether or not Star Wars fans would ever “forgive”, as the article put it, George Lucas for the Star Wars prequels and the re-released editions of the original trilogy. The article said that forgiveness was inevitable, due to his lack of involvement in the new Disney-produced […]