I saw the first episode last night and was impressed. I thought I'd read the original short story, but I hadn't. I'd love to know what others think about this production. My biggest issue is that, in spite of one character who looks to become more major in the other two episodes, it's very, very pale. I also hope the women have more to do in ( Read more... )

I saw this movie as part of the DC Docs festival last summer. (My thanks again to neotoma for attending it with me.) My original, brief, review is behind this sentence.

It was not a great movie, but it is important. It covers a part of the war that we, as Americans, tend to paper over.

If you do watch it, let me know what you thought in comments.

I have been tremendously moved by many different pieces of art in many media.

Only 4 have made me cry (and by that, I don't mean tear up, I mean weep)

1. Porgy and Bess -- Serena (Wilma Shakesnider) singing "My Man's Gone Now" with that great keening wail at the end and Porgy (Donnie Ray Albert) going after Bess with "Oh, Lord, I'm on my Way" both ( Read more... )

I know I've missed a few days.

I didn't see the pilots to many of "my" shows until well after I started watching the series. This is certainly true for Beauty and the Beast, Wiseguy, Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X Files, Stargate SG-1, Criminal Minds, and Forever Knight.

VR.5, as preposterous as the premise was, the pilot captured ( Read more... )

The Golden HindLook, if I want a couple to get together on a show, I write the fanfiction ( Read more... )

I'll keep it to the top five. Seriously, ONE Favorite character of either sex? The person who came up with this meme obviously wasn't a Gemini ( Read more... )

There are so many. Seriously.

"Two Cathedrals" from The West Wing still gives me a visceral thrill when Bartlett yells at God in National Cathedral... in Latin. It's probably wrong that I think it's sexy.

The final three episodes of season 2 of The 4400 where Diana and Tom rope Marco in to take out a government conspiracy that's killing The ( Read more... )

Heroes, a thousand times over ( Read more... )

Criminal MindsI love the show quite unreasonably (or have through the first five seasons), but when the ads began appearing around Los Angeles while I was living there, I determined that I wasn't interested ( Read more... )

For me, the scenes that work as "Best" for television are the ones that pay off the investment in time and mythology building. Joss has some excellent ones in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, including Xander's Dream sequence in Restless, but the sense of satisfaction is very complex.

The first scene like that I remember is from Beauty and the Beast and ( Read more... )