Goose Judge
No I am not sure why I did this either. But here you go. A bit of a spec script for a TV show called Goose Judge. INT. COURTROOM – MORNING The courtroom is mostly empty, a few regulars sit to watch the...
Halt and Catch Fire – The Most Human of Shows
There are very few shows that have mattered to my sense of self as much as Halt and Catch Fire. Which may, if you haven’t seen it, seem odd. Looked at from the outside it’s a show about some folks doing...
Ultra Magus – More Than Meets the Eye, but not in terms of personality
Even giant robots can be boring fucking nerds and cops, sometimes both! Here’s why that’s good: Every group needs that One Person. The person who will stand up and say “But the rules say…”...
Farscape and character
Farscape remains my favorite bit of filmed media. It holds that place for a few reasons, of course, and while I could sit and discuss the production value and effects (Henson’s Creature Shop at its finest) or...
The Lack of Fiction/Entertainment in Science Fiction Worlds
Ever notice that, when you watch a bunch of Sci-Fi almost no one ever references music, or literature that is recent to the story? It’s as if all great art stopped right around when the story was written....
Hate Watching and Guilty Pleasures Are Bad For You
I am here to tell you that hate watching things, and having guilty pleasures, is doing you harm. But before I explain I need to define some terms so we’re on the same page. Hate watching is when you watch...
The Distinct Drop in Media Literacy And A Possible Cause
If you watch TV or movies, read a book or comic, generally ingest any story these days you may notice that, dare you look for any thoughts about it online things have gotten a little…wonky. You used to be able to...
Ted Lasso Was Not Nice
Since the start of the show I’ve seen people refer to Ted Lasso as nice. “The show about being nice,” “The show whose core is that being nice will get you places,” and so on. And it is...
Star Trek Weaponry
The other day I was discussing various Star Trek things online, as I am wont do to, and someone (AfterTheHavoc) mentioned that Next Gen armed away teams with non-threatening looking hand weapons. I agreed but also...
Nostalgia, TV, and Entry Points
There’s something new happening with fandoms as far as TV goes. As Gen X (hi) and Millennials continue to age up there’s a large cohort who want to continue what they had when they were kids. Now that,...
The Choices Made When Casting Teens
Just about everyone has, gently or not, mocked some movie or TV show for its casting of teenagers. Mostly along the lines of the show/film casting people who seem way too old to be teens. We’ve all said it,...
Star Trek: The Federation and Starfleet
I’ve been watching Star Trek as long as I can remember. As a child, of course, the big science fiction fun of it all caught me, and then as I grew older the depth of it caught my eye instead. And as I went I...
The Forgotten Lost Era of late 80s cartoons
Cartoons aimed at kids have gone through four big eras and I feel like we only discuss three of them. Originally cartoons were just cartoons and there were ads on TV around them to sell stuff. Perfectly normal....
True Blood – the best worst thing ever.
Way back in the far away year 2008 Alan Ball worked to adapt Charlene Harris’ Southern Vampire Mystery series of books into a TV show. That sort of thing happens all the time. What doesn’t happen all...
Why we do not need to renumber Doctors
All right look. Hurt isn’t playing the Valeyard but this comes into play. Spoiler for the mini-episode “The Night Doctor” so watch that first I suppose. …still here…? All right…...