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I’m catching up with Battlestar Galactica and Heroes from the last few weeks, and reading some weblog and forum comments on them. I’m struck by how disconnected I feel from what it is that seems to most concern the posting fans. Specifically, I find that I genuinely just don’t care how well some things [...]
Misty and I have been grooving on Veronica Mars since right after the first season. The combination of a noir outlook and a spunky-yet-troubled teenage heroine has proven irresistible. Each of the first two seasons started with a mystery that was solved by the end of the season. This year, since they weren’t picked up [...]
I can tell I’m tired and depressed, because I’m not able to ignore TV’s stupid statements about scientific topics right now. Tonight’s offender is Bones.
Booth: …God does not make mistakes.
Angela: I dunno. Putting testicles on the outside didn’t seem like such a good idea.
It’s not up there with “we only use ten percent of our [...]
Since I grumbled about how Jericho dealt with fallout and nuclear weapons, I should be happy that the CBS show mostly got electromagnetic pulses correct. Right? Right?
You must be new here. As long-time readers know, I’ll lecture at a drop of the hat. Jericho may have gotten EMPs right, but that’s not enough — you [...]
I had a big long rant queued up about how Jericho used static electricity and gasoline to build tension, only they got everything all wrong when they had little MissGyver warn the main character and his friend not to unscrew the cap of the steel pesticide container full of gasoline because unscrewing that cap would [...]
Hello, those of you who are visiting from Television Without Pity. This is not really a science blog, nor is it a television blog, but I do sometimes go on about both. For atomic bomb discussion beyond the bit where I grumble about Jericho, you might be interested in Child of the Cold War, which [...]
We’ve been watching Heroes, the NBC show about superheroes. The premise is that otherwise-normal people develop superpowers. You’ve got your guy who can fly, your girl who can survive any injury, your guy who can read minds. And then you have your girl who has an alter-ego who takes over her body but does not [...]
As regular readers know, I’ve been watching the CBS show “Jericho,” about the town of Jericho, Kansas and what happens after Denver vanishes in a nuclear conflagration. The drama has been so-so, but in the pilot I was hooked by the eerie and frightening sight of the mushroom cloud rising into the air.
So, into the [...]
I’ve been grooving on The Venture Brothers for a while now. For those of you who haven’t seen it, it’s a 30-minute show on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim block of programming. The Venture Brothers started out as a semi-parody of the old Johnny Quest series, but has since grown into its own twisted, hilarious thing.
Ben [...]
As some of you know we watch movies at our house on Tuesday nights. Aren’t we clever, clever people for thinking up that oh so descriptive name? From this picture you might think that all the tvs in our house were on the fritz.
You’d be wrong.
What that picture is of is the subset of us [...]