Reading Pratchett's The Bromeliad Trilogy, Fromm's The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, and Lakoff's Moral Politics at the same time makes for quite a word cocktail:

Most people are not especially sick in the head or especially healthy either.  Most people are just people translates as Most people are somewhat sick in the head but still functional. ( Read more... )

We watched the first three episodes of the Legend of Korra.  It's a gripping sequel to Avatar:  The Last Airbender set in a believable world with the creation team's trademark attention to detail.
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"Aftermath Part 2"

This issue is somewhat misnamed. Aftermath Part 1 focused on the immediate fallout of AoX, but this issue focused my attention more on how these character have matured since they were first introduced.  A more appropriate title would be "Where Bad Seeds Turn Good".

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Sorry folks, it's been a busy week and I never found the time to post this first one.

The Doctor's Wife

*big goofy grin*

Called it.  *checks date*  Almost four years ago to the day I posted a fanfic about the TARDIS being a communication-impaired Goddess who stole away with a Time Lord.  Not that I'm saying Neil Gaiman stole the idea from me, or even ( Read more... )

Disclosure time:  I don't have a piracy kink.  I used to have one, as I was reared on a steady diet of Errol Flynn movies, bodice rippers, and Hornblower novels.  Then my fic brain got interested in the minutia of sea life and I discovered that sailing was like sausage making:  best viewed from a distance. But speaking as someone who went through ( Read more... )

60s haunted house movies + 90s alien conspiracy paranoia + a TARDIS = made of Win.

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RTD channels Frank Capra more than ever, with all Capra's virtues and flaws.

Now that the final reviews are in and the Christmas flu is winding down, I finally have time to watch Merlin.  I've seen the first three episodes so far, and I haven't been disappointed.

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Sorry about the delay.  It's the Secret Origins of Torchwood episode!

I watched the Location Photos thread on OG this summer.  After a report of Jack and Ianto taking out a Weevil but not knowing each other and a report of Tosh working with UNIT, I said, "This is going to be a 'Secret Origins' episode."  Looks like I called it.  ("Secret Origins" ( Read more... )

Now that's the way I like Torchwood -- strong, hot, and dark.

Chris Chibnall turns in his best and most intricate plot yet, and maybe the most Torchwood intricate plot so far, in the vein of Things Are Not What They Seem.  In the process of a procedural investigation/coverup story we learn a lot about different characters in the series and see some ( Read more... )