Monday night saw the season finale of Alcatraz, but as of this writing, it still hasn't been determined whether it will actually be a series finale. I, personally, am hoping it will be renewed; Fox has already axed Terra Nova, so maybe they feel there's room for this strange mix of sci-fi and procedural. And while ratings haven't been great, they haven't been terrible, either; perhaps in a different season, tied to a different show (House was on its last season and ratings have been losing … [Read more...]
Wild Speculation: Portal 3
1 February 2012 by Leave a Comment
Ah, Portal 3. I wish I had some concrete news to report concerning a sequel. Alas, all I can do at the moment is dream - but maybe that'll be fun too. For I've been thinking: what do I want in Portal 3? What might the storyline be like? What would be reasonable, and what would make a good sequel? Here are a few of my ideas. Note: there are probably going to be major spoilers here. Kind of difficult to talk about where a story should go without referring to where it's been. The … [Read more...]
Being A Bookworm: A Little Less Lonely
11 January 2012 by 1 Comment
Today, for about the fifth time, I was told I need to read The Hunger Games. I'm told it's a YA (young adult) series set in a dystopian post-apocalyptic North America where there's a Running Man-esque TV show. I don't know much more than that, and that these characters have some bizarre names that will probably be making their way into the 2015 - 2020 lists of top baby names. Oh, and that there was some controversy about a movie tie-in nail polish. Sometimes I feel like I get my … [Read more...]
Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
20 April 2011 by 5 Comments
Even though the new series starts on Saturday, the world of Doctor Who is a somber place today. Elisabeth Sladen, the actress most well-known for playing Sarah Jane Smith, has passed away. It was an unexpected shock for fans, and the loss is felt deeply across multiple generations. I've said before that I come from a family of Doctor Who fans. My mother has often mentioned that while her first Doctor was Pertwee, more importantly, her first companion was Sarah Jane Smith. You see, … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: Spooky Speculation
25 March 2011 by 1 Comment
With only a month away before the Easter weekend premiere of the new season (or series, depending on your location) of Doctor Who, fans are brimming with speculation. Here I present to you some of the main themes that are being hashed out on forums, and in my own personal conversation. We only have a month left for our most radical ideas, after all! (Note: While obviously I have no access to real spoilers, this does discuss the trailers and teasers for this season, as well as the events of … [Read more...]
Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: Too Much, Too Soon?
3 February 2011 by 3 Comments
In general, I'm not the kind of girl who can spout obscure passages of dialogue from movies and TV shows. There are a few films that are embedded in my brain, most of them from before I was ten years old or so, when my brain was more plastic. Oh, and Family Guy. Yep, Family Guy. I don't quite know how it happened; I wouldn't call Family Guy a guilty pleasure, but maybe an unlikely one. I've always been the "mature one," and I'm pretty quiet and shy in person (for the first few … [Read more...]
Love, Sex and Doctor Who
5 January 2011 by 15 Comments
The space-time continuum of the geek world may be collapsing: The Doctor is engaged to his daughter. The joke about the engagement between David Tennant and Georgia Moffett is two-fold; Tennant played the Doctor and Moffett played his daughter in an episode, and Moffett is the real-life daughter of Peter Davison, who played the fifth incarnation of the Doctor. Yes, it's kind of creepy, but only if you can't separate fiction from reality. Thinking about "the Doctor's" engagement, … [Read more...]
Weirder Than Tron: Obscure Disney Films
22 December 2010 by 9 Comments
Up until a few years ago, when you mentioned live-action Disney movies of days past, you might think of The Parent Trap, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, or maybe Pete's Dragon. Hardly ever did anyone mention Tron. Well, that all changed with the game Kingdom Hearts II. Tron was the basis of a level in that game, right up there with Pirates of the Caribbean, and suddenly kids (and some adults) were going back to the original movie to fully understand what the heck was going on. Then, with the … [Read more...]
What Disney Rides Would Be Good Movies?
13 October 2010 by 2 Comments
A few months back, Guillermo del Toro raised eyebrows when he announced at Comic-Con that he would be making a new Haunted Mansion movie, one that would be scarier. This thrilled me, because while in retrospect the 2003 version of The Haunted Mansion did capture many facets of the ride (the silly, the funny, the scary), there was always something about it that felt jumbled, didn't have that singular atmosphere that, say, Pirates of the Caribbean did. So today I was hunting about for some … [Read more...]
Confession: I’m a Nerd
18 August 2010 by 11 Comments
Let's not kid ourselves here: even in the geek world, there are guilty pleasures, and then there are guilty pleasures. Or, perhaps I could put it another way: there are geek pleasures, and then there are guilty pleasures. You see, I'm pretty comfortable in the geek world. To me, being a fan of Mythbusters or Firefly or Lord of the Rings is, frankly, mainstream. And I've noticed that some things that geeks will list as guilty pleasures - like singing along to Dr. Horrible or building a … [Read more...]
