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Read moreOn Loyalty
Posted by It takes a lot to invest your time into a TV series when there are so many to choose from. If a show doesn’t connect in its first episode, many (i.e., millions of) viewers will give up immediately. Each episode each week needs to further this connection by giving more to those who’ve been invested […]
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Read moreSuperhero films take an Ass-Kicking
Posted by Recently the second part of the Kick-Ass franchise (is it a franchise? Sure. Why not?), creatively named Kick-Ass 2, opened in Australia. I was really excited about it, and the film delivered an entertaining, but, actually heart-warming (stay with me here…) story about people choosing to do what’s right, not what’s easy, in a world […]
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Read moreIt’s time to talk about Skyrim
Posted by A few years ago, I wrote an article about the Elder Scrolls IV game, Oblivion, which at the time of writing, I’d become quite obsessed with. It was brilliant to be able to forget about the world for a while, and give in to Gamer OCD (which is also defined in my Oblivion post). On […]
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Read moreOrphan Black – a TV Show Worth Cloning
Posted by It feels like it’s been a long time since I’ve been excited about watching a show. For perhaps the past year or so, television to me has been all about spoon-feeding the audience the plot, releasing shallow and singular-dimensional characters into the ether, and producing gratuitously sexed-up or violent scenes – because they look good […]
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Read moreWe Love Our Browncoats, So Firefly Can Never Come Back
Posted by I love Firefly. But I don’t want it to come back anymore. Not in the format and with the characters we’d recognise. Here’s why. 1/ Fox still own it. They’d just kill it again. If we love our Browncoats, we don’t want to re-subject them to the Fox environment. Ok ok, assume this can be […]