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Winter Hiatuses and Other TV Gripes

Winter hiatuses suck. I’m not quite sure what made TV execs think that having lengthy breaks between halves of seasons is a good idea, but whoever came up with the concept should be, in the immortal words of Garfield the cat, drug out into the street and shot. I mean, I understand breaking for the [...]

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Get thee hence, nerd!

Have you ever started reading a book or watching a TV series and felt an immediate connection with a character only to have the writer(s) destroy the main reason you love the work by taking away that character? A while ago, I posted about intellectual archetypes in SF television, and at the top of my [...]

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[TVverdict] Stargate Universe: A Question of Character

After taking a few weeks off because of getting married, I was finally able to get a good post written, edited, and posted over at TVverdict.com. A lot of people have complained that Stargate Universe started off slowly. Even I complained that, as much as I enjoyed it, I couldn’t care about the characters to [...]

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Intellectual Archetypes in Science Fiction Television

A staple of most science fiction is the smart guy (or girl!)–that one person who is leaps and bounds, head and shoulders above the rest of the ensemble. in terms of intellect. He or she is always able to find the way out of any given situation, not by brute force or manual dexterity, but [...]

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Stargate Universe – A Little of This, A Little of That, A Lot of Awesome

Most people who read this blog know I’ve become a huge Stargate fanboy over the past few months, having run through the first third of SG-1 with my dad and Atlantis’ first season solo. So when SyFy announced Stargate Universe would be premiering this fall and “reinventing the wheel,” as their advertisements noted, I became [...]

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The Fall 2009 TV Lineup – Beej’s Picks

Between jumping from part-time adjuncting to full-time teaching/administration and planning a wedding in approximately 3 months (under 6 weeks to go and counting!) there seems to be very little time to actually sit in front of my boobtube and bask in the awesomeness that the Fall ‘09 lineup promises. Fortunately, I have a DVR and [...]

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Stargate SG-1: Season 2 Review

Every time I want to say something about Stargate SG-1 Season 2, I want to call it Stargate SG-2 and be done with it. I know within the context of the show it can’t be called that because the narrative follows the exploits of a team called “SG-1,” but it would be a much easier, [...]

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Stargate Atlantis – Initial Impressions

Let me start this out the right way: I am now and forever a Stargate fanboy. Not the “mouthbreathing, pseudo-uneducated, mindlessly slaving away wishing the franchise would be reality and not understanding why not” kind of fanboy, but the loyal kind of fanboy who finds a franchise he enjoys and watches every episode available and [...]

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