Archive for the “TV” category
First trailer for HBO’s Game of Thrones
by Pete on June 14, 2010
There’s not much to it, but HBO has posted the first trailer for next year’s Game of Thrones series: I usually don’t go in much for stuff with swords and/or dragons, but I’ll admit, the novels totally sucked me in, (…)
More on The Walking Dead
by Pete on June 3, 2010
Via Slice of SciFi, a promotional video for The Walking Dead: They’re still in pre-production, so no actual footage—just some brief interview snippets from writer/producer Frank Darabont and Gail Anne Hurd, the executive producer. Choice quote: “We hope to do (…)
Yes, I’m still using PlayOn. Sort of.
by Pete on June 2, 2010
Ars Technica has a pretty decent write-up of PlayOn: PlayOn is a Windows-based application that allows you to watch online video content—from providers like Hulu, Amazon VOD, Comedy Central, and YouTube, to name a few—on your television via your PS3, (…)
Enough with the stupid “Story arcs are bad” stuff, already
by Pete on September 5, 2009
Io9 published a story a week or so ago entitled “What’s the Matter With Story Arcs on Television?” It starts out: Used to be, your television heroes explored the edges of the universe and confronted unimaginable nightmares. And then they’d (…)
Sadly, I have started watching Lost again
by Pete on August 28, 2009
No thanks to Hulu, and against my better judgement, I have gotten sucked back into Lost. I’m about five episodes into the second season. If I recall correctly, I have a few more episodes to go before I get to (…)
Everyone knows what a VCR is, right?
by Pete on July 16, 2008
I’ve been watching the first season of Babylon 5 on DVD. One episode (“Deathwalker”) features a character named Abbut, who can record the actions and thoughts of those around him. He is, we are told by another character, known as (…)
Cognitive surplus?
by Pete on April 30, 2008
I finally got around to watching Clay Shirky’s “cognitive surplus” talk at the Web 2.0 conference. If you haven’t seen it or read the text, it’s worth watching: Yeah, I’m not so sure. While I’d like to believe that Shirky’s (…)
Stop with the time travel already
by Pete on January 6, 2008
As a general rule, it is a bad idea to use time travel as a narrative device. The reasoning behind this rule is that there is pretty much no way to write a story involving time travel that doesn’t have (…)
The networks v. YouTube/Google
by Pete on December 18, 2006
After their initial and predictable reaction to YouTube (closing their eyes and hoping it will go away), major TV networks are now trying to figure out how to make money from the posting of their video content on the web. (…)
American Gothic
by Pete on December 15, 2006
I have recently been re-watching American Gothic. The show, which ran for one season on CBS back in 1995, is now available on DVD. Since I recalled liking it a lot when it was originally on the air, I thought (…)