Tag: Television

  • Belated Doctor Who reaction post for “Kill the Moon”

    Belated Doctor Who reaction post for “Kill the Moon”

    Belated and weary reaction post to last week’s Doctor Who episode, “Kill the Moon”.

  • Welcome back to awesomeness, Avatar Korra

    Welcome back to awesomeness, Avatar Korra

    Avatar: The Legend of Korra is back! And it is GOOD.

  • Open letter to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    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’.

  • Americanization of Sherlock Holmes: how bad an idea is this?

    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…

  • That promised post about stuff besides books

    That promised post about stuff besides books

    So yeah, I’ve actually been doing things besides purchasing books lately, I swear! The Great Enshrinkening of Anna proceeds apace, even if not quite as quickly as initially planned. As I enthused on Twitter and Facebook this morning, I hit 164 pounds today! Which is well and easily the lightest I’ve been in five years,…

  • Book and TV catchup

    Book and TV catchup

    Let’s clear out the backlog of new ebook and print book purchases, shall we? Picked up in print from the Norwescon dealers’ room: The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks, and The Zombie Survival Guide, by Max Brooks. The former is a graphic novel adaptation of a section of the latter. I’d already listened to an…

  • More Castle Speculation

    More Castle Speculation

    Or, AUGH YOU CLIFFHANGERY BASTARDS part II. ^_^

  • Augh Castle cliffhanger AUGH

    Augh Castle cliffhanger AUGH

    And now that I have shiny new Castle icons, I can use one to post about last night’s Castle episode because ZOMG CLIFFHANGER YOU CLIFFHANGERY BASTARDS! Spoilers…

  • GIP!

    GIP!

    I realized tonight, seeing both and enthuse over tonight’s episode of Castle, that I have a sad, sad lack of Castle-related icons in my life! However, thanks to , I was quickly able to rectify this problem. Props to users and , whose icons I scarfed and have added to the userpics pages of both…

  • Not dead, despite rumors to contrary

    Not dead, despite rumors to contrary

    Y’all may have noticed that I haven’t posted in days. This has been because I’ve been sick as a dog with a cold that just will not quit, and have been ever since the day I came back from Vancouver. Woke up this past Monday with a soreness to my throat, and my first though…