For some reason, the new edgy seems to be boring the living crap out of the audience. I don’t know when this started, but it seems to be a pattern that emerged somewhere around 2004. Movies and TV shows have found new and interesting ways to slow plots to a crawl, mysteries never seem to resolve, [...]
 
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Wow! I can’t wait! I’ve been a fan of Doctor Who for such a long time. I love what Russell T. Davies did with the series, and I bet Steven Moffat will rock it even harder. And judging from the newly released trailer from BBC America, I think that [...] You won’t have to wait long to see Matt Smith piloting the Tardis under the watchful eye of new showrunner James Moffat. BBC America announced that the new series (season for us colonists) of Doctor Who begins on April 17th! Are you ready for the new Who? The U.S. will finally get to see Matt Smith, the [...] Last Saturday The Guardian published an article titled ‘Ten Rules for Writing Fiction’ consolidating advice from noted authors such as Elmore Leonard, Margaret Atwood, Helen Dunmore, Richard Ford, and Neil Gaiman. You can read the entire piece here. There’s some great stuff… some you might have heard before, but it’s always fantastic to hear it from [...] I’m so honored to have participated in this month’s SF Signal Mind Meld. The subject is SciFi shows that deserve a remake. You can check out the article here at SF Signal: MIND MELD: SciFi TV Shows That Deserve A Remake (with Videos) Q: Which off-the-air science fiction television show deserves a remake? What changes would you make [...] World building in science fiction is a big deal. People study for years to learn how to do it well. It’s the key to capturing your audience and creating a stage where you can present your story with some semblance of continuity and believability. It all has to work and work together to transport the audience [...] One of my biggest pet peeves about many TV series is the lack of character development from season to season. I can rattle off numerous shows where the main character moves along, but never really changes. If he our she starts out as aloof or arrogant in episode one, then three years later it’s still the [...] We knew this was coming… admit it. The U.S. budget is a mess and the first thing that always seems to go on the chopping block is NASA. To read the whole story you can check out Reuters here. When you look at the progress of Virgin Galactic and see the ambitions of China and India in [...] Yeah, that’s right folks! Avatar, the epic sci-fi 3D blockbuster that’s raking in all kinds of money, still has yet to surpass Star Wars or even Titanic when it comes to the gross adjusted for inflation, so says the LA Times. It’s so freaking expensive these days to go see a film, and 3D at the IMAX [...] |
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