Category: geek of tv
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A case for women Doctors
We need to talk about Doctor Who. I know Doctor Who is everyone’s favorite sci-fi television show. I understand that it is the longest running television show and that it’s able to bridge generational gaps because of it. It is as iconic as Star Trek and more storied than Star Wars. I get that. And the modern remake has…
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What we can learn from Canada and Vash the Stampede
This is how you make your country great: #BienvenueAuCanada pic.twitter.com/rUhrIXiFcR — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) January 28, 2017 For that matter, replace “country” with any word that represents a community. Because the way you make any kind of community better is with love, not hate. Fighting hate with hate only creates more hate. The way you…
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The Sansa treatment
Trigger warning: This post talks a lot about the sexual assault that happens, frequently, on Game of Thrones. If these topics are personally distressing to you, please don’t read this post. TL:DR; What happens to Sansa is horrible no matter who it happens to. This is my first post ever about Game of Thrones and it’s…
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A newcomer’s guide to the Doctor (Who, that is)
This is an experience I imagine almost everyone having: You’re alone. It’s late at night (but not too late yet) in the mid-90s and you’re flipping through the channels. You stop on some cheap-looking sci fi thing with British accents. You watch. Without seeing the title credits, you already have a pretty good idea what it…
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The problem with Netflix’s 5 star rating system
I have a problem with Netflix’s rating system. There’s not enough room to be “meh” about something. Observe: There are a lot of things that Netflix recommends for me that are 3 stars to 3 and a half stars. This, by Netflix’s terms, means I’d like it but maybe not really like it. Two stars…
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There’s only one zombie story…and it sucks
After much hype and to-do, I decided to give AMC’s new zombie show, The Walking Dead, a go. 54 minutes into the 1 hour & 6 and I was already bored to death of the headshots, raspy whispers and groaning, and the “ohmygod the last bastion of hope is actually full of zombies but no one…
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the not-so-hidden value of netflix
i’m pretty much completely in love with netflix. it started with some casual experimentation through a friend during college. he had a netflix subscription and we’d often get triple features of obscure asian action flicks (digging deep in the early career of jet li with the once upon a time in china series — which i highly recommend,…
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hulu desktop app — needs work
i’m sure i saw it on twitter, but i don’t really remember. at any rate, hulu has released a new desktop application for windows and mac osx. i’m a huge fan of hulu. this is my equivalent of television, and i am looking forward to more shows being cast on hulu. hulu and tivo, in my…