Smallville season ten speculations. Possibly spoilery for what's coming, certainly spoilery for what happened in the season nine finale, so, behind a cut. ( Like so )

This post will only appeal to Smallville fans or mythology buffs. You have been warned.

( Long and spoilery speculation for next week's episode of Smallville, 'Pandora' )

I am apparently Ms. Crankypants Spamsalot today. lj_biz community has just explained those new flags you find in the overcrowded icon options for every post. It's time to flag entries as offensive, inappropriate or adult content, apparently. And to use this feature to close down your entries or journals to the under-18 or under-14 set. That's what they'd ( Read more... )

Over on Henry Jenkins' blog, there's a dialogue between academics Bob Rehak and Suzanne Scott all about RDM, Mrs. Ron and authorial power in BSG (read it in full here or subscribe to the feed via LJ's syndication here). And what really tweaked my interest was the identification of expanded canon (and the authorial control this implies) through new ( Read more... )

As the events of Strikethrough 2007 continue to play out and their echoes resonate in our communities, I think it's worthwhile to consider the effects of all of this on our community ( Read more... )

Spoilery for BSG Episode 2.16 "Sacrifice" ( It's a human sign when things go wrong )

I so should be packing, but what the heck. These ideas have been percolating around in my head since watching the episode last night, so here goes. ( Maunderings with pictures behind the cut )

I hasten to recommend jennyo's Sucks to be Lee -- a great essay looking at Lee's situation from season one through the first two episodes of season two. Really good analysis and makes me feel so sorry for the poor fellow.

As I go about my daily life, doing those boring things, I putter away with fun stuff in my mind. Fun stuff these days is usually thinking about Battlestar Galactica, of course -- fanfiction, icon ideas, episode analysis, whatever. So, here are my comments, perhaps far too obvious, about the use of colour in the season one finale. (edited to add ( Read more... )