M, my coworker, has recently become addicted to Battlestar Galactica and forwarded me this article by Jonah Goldberg, which offers a conservative's eye view of the purported liberal shark-jumping of BSG (with additional references to several other series). I wanted to comment on a few of its points.

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Watching/discussing Farscape has got me to thinking about the pregnancy motif in TV/film science fiction (and fantasy), a motif I find annoying because it usually reinforces a discourse in which it is “normal/natural” for women to be denied reproductive choice (and men, too, but they’re less intimately affected). This denial of choice relates to ( Read more... )

A friend of mine has loaned me her brand new Starsky and Hutch season 1 DVDs in hopes of turning me into a fan, and I must say, she’s succeeded. I’d never seen the show before (it started the year I was born and ended when I was about three or four). But my friend marketed it to me on the strength of its being an incredible friendship story ( Read more... )