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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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 [...] It’s happened to all of us. We’re watching an action TV show or movie filled with car chases, alien attacks, secret conspiracies, running gun battles, explosions, and all types of other loud, crazy things to get our blood pumping. The plot builds, we get excited about learning more, and then it happens. Our hero’s cell phone [...] 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 [...] Two recent post-apocalyptic films The Road and The Book of Eli show a devastated wasteland covered in dirt, muck, and all other types of grit. I’m not here to discuss the films themselves, but how genre films, whether they be horror or science fiction, portray life after a civilization-ending event. These two films are just some recent [...] |
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