Category Archives: TV
Interactive Drama: One Possible Future
There are those in the gaming community – myself included – who are waiting for the time when video games spawn a sub-genre that gains broad acceptance and wide appeal akin to movies or television. I don’t think the whole … Continue reading
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To Boldly Go Where Millions of Players Have Gone Before
Captain’s Log, Stardate 100205.23 While charting the edge of known space, we’ve come across what appears to be Star Trek Online, lost years ago in a region of space colloquially called Development Hell. Though early reports suggested that it was … Continue reading
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To Boldly Stay Home Because It’s Too Expensive and Someone Else Will Do It
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and … Continue reading
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You Were Supposed to Laugh: A Review
I’m a real sucker for stories about anyone who creates entertainment. The struggle, the uncertainty, the hours and weeks and months and years of effort, often out of naught but love and dedication…this stuff gets me, right here. (I know … Continue reading
Is One More TV Miracle Too Much Too Ask?
Breaking digital silence here for a little bit – I’ve been on vacation for several weeks and often haven’t had an internet connection, and when I have had one, blogging hasn’t really been on the top of my list of … Continue reading
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Looking for the Truth in All the Wrong Places
I’m holed up in a hotel in Fredericksburg tonight in preparation for a visit to a potential employer (one of many reasons the blog’s been quiet the last few weeks) I happened to turn on the (rather blurry) cable in … Continue reading
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The Ten-Episode Mission: A Star Trek Primer (10 of 10)
In the wake of JJ Abrams’s new Star Trek, I am giving a ten-episode list (one a day) of the Original Series episodes to watch if the movie’s gotten you interested. Primer #10: “The Trouble with Tribbles” The Enterprise‘s mission … Continue reading
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The Ten-Episode Mission: A Star Trek Primer (9 of 10)
In the wake of JJ Abrams’s new Star Trek, I am giving a ten-episode list (one a day) of the Original Series episodes to watch if the movie’s gotten you interested. Primer #9: “Journey to Babel” The Enterprise must escort … Continue reading
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In Defense of a Whedon-less Buffy
So the news has just broken that Hollywood is apparently contemplating making a Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie…without that series’s creator, Joss Whedon. Anyone remotely familiar with Whedon and his work (Buffy, its spin-off Angel, the shouldn’t-have-been-canceled Firefly, and the … Continue reading
The Ten-Episode Mission: A Star Trek Primer (8 of 10)
In the wake of JJ Abrams’s new Star Trek, I am giving a ten-episode list (one a day) of the Original Series episodes to watch if the movie’s gotten you interested. Primer #8: “The Apple” On a beautiful but lethal … Continue reading
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