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.
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The Connor Wars EXTRA04 – “Allison Wonderland”
Here is the fourth extra little something I’ve written for The Connor Wars. The fanfic that picks up where the second season finale of Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles left off.
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Star Trek Series I Have Loved
I grew up with Star Trek. I’ve faithfully–sometimes out of love, sometimes inertia–watched all of the other series as well. They all have had their moments. Sadly, they also have had their stumbles. Here are my thoughts on each.
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Holiday Watch: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
It seems to happen every Christmas: your beloved uncle brings home a perfect-for-you stranger just before the holiday and he makes your ill-suited boyfriend suspicious and jealous. Amazingly, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year does better than most at keeping an entertaining balance.
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Holiday Watch: Three Wise Women
This is what happens if you take equal parts A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life and set it in Ireland with the protagonist being a doctor who has sworn off love and is instead becoming married to her career.
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Holiday Watch: An Old-Fashioned Christmas
Following a young woman in this period piece, An Old-Fashioned Christmas, opts to break out of the traditional formula for a holiday film and delivers, instead, a solid story filled with choices, consequences, love, disappointment, greed, and good old-fashioned humanity. The question is: does it deliver on the holiday theme?
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6 Things I Love About Charmed
A while back I wrote 6 Things That Still Irk Me About Charmed. This time we’ll swing the pendulum the other way and look at some things that always make me happy I’ve been a fan of Charmed for so long.
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Scrumtrulescence: 3 Women of Sci-Fi (Blonde Machine Edition)
There are some characters that simply rise above fanboy adoration. They become more than the genre. As a result, they enter in the public consciousness. These icons are usually human, but some bring an element of the machine to the party as well. Here’s a look at three blonde, blood and bolt females who are part of that legacy.
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Holiday Watch: Crazy For Christmas
A lot of Christmas movies can be downright dour while others are such treacly fantasies that they positively make your teeth ache. Crazy For Christmas isn’t one of those movies.
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Erica Durance Is Now My Favorite Lois Lane
As an occasional viewer of “Smallville”, I haven’t seen a lot of Erica Durance’s turn as Lois Lane. In this tenth (and final…?) season, I’ve tuned in to see an actress who is doing an amazing job.
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6 Things That Still Irk Me About Charmed
One of the shows I’ve most enjoyed viewing both in first-run and in reruns or on tapes/discs has been the television series, …
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The Connor Wars Writer’s Room 43 – Thinking About Cam and Ali
Reflecting on Cameron and Allison’s perspective on their relationships as well as my perspective, as a writer, on my relationship with them.
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The Connor Wars Writer’s Room 42 – Six Months Done…Or Am I?
It’s been about six months since I finished up season 4 of The Connor Wars. Since I’ve obviously not been posting about that as much as I was, I thought y’all might like a bit of an update.
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Mythergency!
I’m surprised I didn’t see this sooner. Mythbusters is actually a geek version of the beloved 1970s television drama, Emergency! It doesn’t really take a lot of digging to see some amazing parallels.
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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.
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The Connor Wars EXTRA03 – First Draft: “A Thousand Miles”
Here is an extra little something from the Connor Wars archives. The fanfic that picked up where the second season finale of Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles left off.
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Seriously, what is it about science fiction shows getting really good in their third seasons? If this is actually a general rule of science fiction, I’m a little scared to imagine how
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Tea Party Mad Hatters – Or, Shouting Through the Looking Glass
It’s tragic when ideas worthy of consideration are buried under waves of narcissistic bluster aimed mostly for inciting higher ratings or higher campaign contributions. The time has come, this blogger says, to talk of many things; of tea parties and pundit rants, of bedfellows and flings.
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