I finally finished watching Wolverine and the X-Men.  It managed to be worse than I feared.  It was a wonky idea from the start:  loner Wolverine is so popular, let's make him leader!  It was a strange blend of the familiar and the revisioned.  It was built around a problematic implementation of time travel.  But it still could've overcome these ( Read more... )

Once Upon a Time continues to disappoint. My keenest disappointment is the show's sloppy writing. For example, in the latest episode, Heroes and Villains, we have another new crisis built on the shakiest of foundations.

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"Day of the Doctor" was a big disappointment.  While the big-screen production values were nice, the script failed utterly to live up to expectations.  There were three big problems:

1. The Warrior
2. The Time War
3. Script Details

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I just watched the last two Doctor Who specials, with predictably mixed results.

"The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe" was overly sentimental, simplistic, and silly. It was clearly targeted at the child market, with a few bits thrown in to entertain the parents. The Doctor sets up the situation, quickly loses control of it, and then trails ( Read more... )

This weekend, I rewatched the Star Trek episode "Errand of Mercy." It's a classic episode, written by Gene L. Coon and introducing the Klingons. But I hadn't realized that its writing was so weak.

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Yesterday, I just moped about my apartment, feeling both lazy and sickly. Eventually, I downshifted to just plain sick. It was a relatively mild attack of my mysterious digestive disorder, but it kept me up later than I'd intended. I expect to be sluggish today.

I did watch many hours of television programming on Hulu. I watched about a third ( Read more... )

Hulu has just posted the entire first season of Eureka I finally got to watch the premiere. Kinda shocking to see the budget cuts in the subsequent series. Nice to see the star looking a bit more competent than usual ( Read more... )

I'm a little afraid of my prescription. There is a list of very unpleasant potential side effects. I waited until I got home before taking the first dose, which I must take with food or risk more unpleasantness. It's only 7.5 mg per pill, which might be reassuring in that it isn't very much, or it might be disconcerting because so little counts ( Read more... )

I see dawn outside my window ( Read more... )

What is intelligence? What do we mean when we say that someone is smart?

I've watched the first few episodes of a television series called Bones, about a "forensic anthropologist" (and her team) helping an FBI agent solve murders. It's a lighter version of C.S.I., with more attention (and ridicule) directed to the otherness of smart people. The ( Read more... )