Battlestar Galactica has featured assassinations, coup d’etat, martial law, suicide bombing, torture, forced abortion, gang rape. It’s a dark show. But to my mind, one of the most horrible moments of the show was not anything so conventionally terrible as the above, but a speech sometimes hailed as one of the triumphant turning points of [...]
Archive for the ‘Television’ Category
Inhumanity (Looking towards Battlestar Galactica’s final episodes)
Posted in Analyses, Television, tagged Battlestar Galactica on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SOFA
Posted in D&D, Fictions, Internets, Movies, Personal, Television, Video games, tagged Facebook, Far Cry 2, Heroes, Letters from Africa, Overlord, Pushing Daisies, Quantum of Solace, Steam, The Forsaken Jewel, Twitter on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A new plan of attack involves more shorter posts, so that there aren’t months without anything. I stayed away from that here before because I keep really short thoughts to Facebook status updates (would be Twitters if I had any friends on Twitter, but I don’t), but there’s a place between rambling essays and one [...]
Why you should be watching The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Posted in Analyses, Movies, Television, tagged Asimov, Blade Runner, Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Sarah Connor Chronicles is a fascinating show. It’s a show on a major network (and one notorious for canning potentially brilliant but niche shows befor giving them any real chance to establish an audience) that manages to get away with many things you wouldn’t expect possible on a major network (and especially on FOX). [...]
“The tragedy of verisimilitude”
Posted in Analyses, Politic, Television, Theory, tagged Battlestar Galactica, Bush, Generation Kill, The Wire on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post is something of a sequel to this one.
I’m halfway through season two of The Wire (just finished “All Prologue”) and I’ve got some more thoughts on it and David Simon’s other HBO production, Generation Kill (thoughts which of course apply to television and to some extent narratives in general as well).
What strikes me [...]
“It’s about the characters, stupid”
Posted in Analyses, Television, Theory, tagged Doctor Who, The Wire on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Having finished the first season of The Wire (and the first episode of season two), I think I’ve figured out what my problem with it is: I’m not engaged by the characters. I don’t mean to say that I don’t like The Wire; I think it is brilliant, and great, and powerful, but so far [...]
Episodic and Seasonal Pacing on Television
Posted in Analyses, Television, Theory, tagged Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men, The Wire, Veronica Mars on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you somehow weren’t aware, season two of Mad Men premiered last night. The episode was everything I expected and hoped for and more, with a couple of surprises along with the general thoughtful evolution of characters that have aged more than a year since we last saw them. (Season two begins in February 1962; [...]
A meditation on The Wire, Battlestar Galactica, and Firefly, plus the relationship between comedy and drama
Posted in Analyses, Television, Theory, tagged Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, The Wire on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For years there have been (at least to my perhaps biased perceptions) two shows that have dominated television critics’ articles as the “best shows on TV”: Battlestar Galactica and The Wire. I’ve watched Battlestar since the beginning (and fallen completely in love with it, and become known as something of an evangelist for it), but [...]
