Category: Television
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Doctor Who 08.02 “Into the Dalek” reaction post
In which Anna is not particularly impressed with the latest episode of Doctor Who, “Into the Dalek”.
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Doctor Who 08.01 “Deep Breath” reaction post
Your basic Doctor Who reaction post, now that I’ve finally seen “Deep Breath”! Spoilers abound, so be warned before you click on this.
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Welcome back to awesomeness, Avatar Korra
Avatar: The Legend of Korra is back! And it is GOOD.
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Open letter to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Dear agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: insulting your core demographic is not going to convince us to come back and watch your show. JUST SAYIN’.
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Everybody in Avatar: Legend of Korra is AMAZING
So because Legend of Korra keeps getting better every week and because I admire the hell out of this show, here, have a poll! (As always, if you’re reading this somewhere that isn’t my WordPress blog, please click on over to the original post and make a choice! The poll won’t work on any of…
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Americanization of Sherlock Holmes: how bad an idea is this?
I’m seeing initial waves of nerd rage over this news that CBS is trying to develop its own pilot for a modernization of Sherlock Holmes, set in New York City. The timing of this, given that there is another active modernization of Sherlock Holmes in production with the BBC, is not a coincidence; note that…
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Under the right circumstances…
… with the right motivation, I can in fact get quite blottoed. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, solarbird and I are watching “Spock’s Brain”. With homemade kamikazes. The only way to handle this episode, we’re here to tell you. We’ve got chocolate too. Just because! And we were taking a drink on every occurrence of the…
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Merry Christmas and Happy Doctor Who Day!
No matter what holiday you celebrate this time of year, I hope it’s going splendidly for you! If you’re with loved ones, may you have excellent food and presents; if you’re spending it alone, may you have something handy to pamper yourself, maybe good music or food or books. If you are a writer, may…
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Book Log #77: Naked Heat, by Richard Castle
I’m still greatly, greatly amused that the Richard Castle books even exist–it remains an excellent marketing ploy for an enjoyable TV show. That said, I didn’t quite enjoy Naked Heat, the second of the Nikki Heat series, as much as the first one. Most of this I attribute to the overall style of the writing…
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Weekend of Turkey, Battlestar, and Potter
As is our custom at the Murkworks, we had our annual Homeless Waifs Thanksgiving Day Turkeyfest, and this time around we had a very respectable turnout of 16 people, including children. Much obliged to mamishka, technoshaman, maellenkleth, dpawtows, epawtows, ypawtows, cflute, sksouth, fredpdx, and Mimi’s friend Chad who all showed up to make a wonderful…