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Shuttle Discovery – Rode Hard

On another site, someone posted a picture of the space shuttle Discovery and noted that it didn’t exactly look showroom clean:

Creating a Good Female Superhero For Hollywood

You hear the lament all the time about how Hollywood can’t make a good female superhero movie/television show. While not exactly true, the fact remains that Hollywood is much less persistent in seeking a successful formula here than it does with the male superheroes.

This Wonder Woman Reboot Makes Me VERY Nervous

Wonder Woman as a weepy career woman-slash-superheroine with three identities? DEK, say it ain’t so.

Flash TV Review: The Cape

NBC premiered its new superhero show, The Cape, in a two-episode push. Did they succeed in creating a graphic-novel milieu sufficient to keep people tuning in week to week?

Wonder Woman TV Show Stalled

Another creative lamb has been sacrificed on the altar of a Wonder Woman project. Maybe they should let me take a crack at it.

Rebooting Wonder Woman?

The surprising geeky news of the week came with the announcement of a planned reboot of the Wonder Woman franchise, not as a movie but as a television series. The latest development golden boy is hyphenate, David E. Kelley. You know that I have some thoughts on this.

Boomerang Character – Buffy Summers

A boomerang character is one you keep returning to as: new stories arise, new incarnations are presented, or you revisit their previous adventures as comfort food. These characters are iconic. They resonate. In this installment: Buffy Summers.

TTSCC – Still Staying the Course

TTSCC finds itself in a place that a lot of scifi shows end up in their second season: producers not delivering on fan expectations. Fans have a funny way of developing their own ideas about a series. I’d like to use these opinions as a sort of jumping off point for discussion.