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Late last night, I caught a couple of episodes of the 1990′s X-Men animated series on TV. The dialogue and animation were just as rough as I remember them being, but just watching those two episodes was more enjoyable than watching either of Bryan Singer’s X-Men movies. (There’s really no point in mentioning Brett Ratner’s [...]
Today is the first day of African-American History Month. It’s also the day the world learned that Don Cornelius, the creator and most famous host of Soul Train, committed suicide. I hadn’t thought about Cornelius in ages, but Soul Train was huge for us kids of the ’70s and ’80s. I’m about as Caucasian as [...]
I have some things running around in my head to blog about, but my attention and energy has mostly been focused elsewhere. So in the meantime, as a companion piece to my post about my passionate, undying love for Doctor Who, here’s an outstanding video with clips from every episode of the show ever (and [...]
Yesterday on io9, Alasdair Wilkins posted a terrific piece on his inexplicable love for classic Doctor Who. He really nails a lot of what’s bad about the classic series while expressing a delightful obsession with the show. I completely understand where he’s coming from. When I was in middle school, one of my best friends [...]
I’m too busy with my upcoming move, which becomes wackier each day (Seriously, I think this is how the Muppets would move, if there were a Muppet movie about moving from the suburbs to a nearby college town.), and other life stuff, like my dad going into the hospital again (He’s doing OK. Just waiting [...]
I’m a huge fan of Doctor Who, both the classic and current TV shows. I love the show more than almost anything. But I’m not blind to its faults, and there’s one thing that’s been eating away at me for a while now. I really hate the way Rose Tyler and Donna Noble left the [...]
I have an idea for a TV show. Like Glee, it would be about a group of geeky, outsider kids at a small town high school. But instead of being members of a glee club performing musical numbers, the kids would all play a Dungeons & Dragons-type role-playing game together. The “real world” scenes would [...]
I really think Community is one of the best shows on TV right now, for a variety of reasons. Last week’s episode, “Advanced Dungeons and Dragons,” was one of the best of the best. It was hilariously funny, but also very touching, and it was more accurate in the way it portrayed people playing Dungeons [...]
The Cape premiered this past Sunday night. I was nervous about it. Superheroes aren’t often treated well on TV, but I really wanted to like it, if for no other reason than I’m a sucker for Summer Glau. I’m happy to say I liked it a lot. It was fun and adventurous, with just the [...]
The Doctor Who episode of The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson was absolutely terrific and geektastic. Unfortunately, they didn’t do the cold open that was originally planned, apparently because the show couldn’t get the rights to do the Doctor Who theme music. On the show, Craig Ferguson mocked worry and anger about the cold [...]
