I finished the third season of For All Mankind, and thus all broadcast so far. (Youtube tells me there is a trailer for a fourth season, set in 2003, so this AU will be with us for at least one era more.) Still immensely watcheable, and I loved the big twist of the season premise. Now that's the right way to play with expectations and widen your ( Read more... )

Essay by Art Spiegelman about how the golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism. Was originally declined publication for a sentence which sums up the state of affairs today: „Captain America’s most nefarious villain, the Red Skull, is alive on screen and an Orange Skull haunts America.“

I hear you, Mr. Spiegelman. In other news, ( Read more... )

The characters on my list were ( Read more... )

Thank you for all the gloriously crazy prompts! Okay, here's the list ( Read more... )

Day 08 - A show everyone should watch

All the shows ever reviewed in this journal, obviously.:) Okay, more seriously now, I don't think you can answer that question without a certain hyperbole, because when you reccommend shows, you are, or at least I am, usually aware that not everything is for everyone. I know people whom I wouldn't reccommend ( Read more... )

Name your five favorite evil characters.Now often one person's evil character is another misunderstood one's, so it's a given this choice is subjective. My personal criteria for favourite evil character, as opposed to favourite villain (different thing, really) is that this character does not have a redemption arc and/or sacrificial death. (This ( Read more... )

Name five characters who probably shouldn't try to be monogamous.

1.) Chiana (Farscape). Actually, to clarify that: not because the early s3 incident, which was mostly Chiana panicking and self-sabotaging. Not to mention being very young. But I think even a mature Chiana under optimal cirucmstances would not be happy in a monagamous ( Read more... )

There is something about you and my journal, Astonishing X-Men, there is definitely something about you.

Other good things that happened to me yesterday were watching the recent tv adaption of Going Postal. Which was great fun, the actors were excellent (Charles Dance as Vetinari took a moment of getting used to because of the hair colour and his ( Read more... )

I'm answering this from the ideal assumption I could resurrect some of these directly after they were cancelled, i.e. with the same writers/actors/producers available instead of bound by other commitments, aged or died.

1) Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Because it was, hands down, the best show in the last two years, smart, with ( Read more... )

Five characters that replaced departing characters, and whether you considered each a gain or a loss.

Right then. I think we'll have to exclude Doctor Who for obvious reasons, such as the freakin' format of the show since decades. So, let's see:

1) Anya in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, who essentially filled the Cordelia-shaped gap from season 4 ( Read more... )