Via Dave Sez, Ed at the Sports Frog wants a divorce from ESPN: I have carefully thought this through and I believe a divorce is our only resolution. I have been loyal and faithful to you and you have shit on me, cheated, lied, took 5 months to send me a check and you won’t… Continue reading Irreconcilable Differences
Category: Television
How Do You Put That On Your CV?
Via a comment by Anton Sherwood: Have you ever seen an episode of Star Trek with a particularly bad bit of technobabble, and said to yourself “You know, I’d be willing to fact-check their scripts for a few hundred bucks…” Well, Dave Krieger did just that, and it wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be.… Continue reading How Do You Put That On Your CV?
Festival of Cliches
Speaking of fictional science, was there a sci-fi cliche that Eureka (new show on the Sci-Fi Channel) missed last night? Shows like this really make me question whether Battlestar Galactica can be as good as people insist it is (the one episode I watched didn’t sell me on it). (I’m also kind of apprehensive about… Continue reading Festival of Cliches
Fictional Science
The article about physicists in movies cited previously had one other thing worth commenting on: the fictional portrayal of the practice of science: All these films illustrate a fundamental pattern for movie science. Rarely is the central scientific concept utterly incorrect, but filmmakers are obviously more interested in creating entertaining stories that sell tickets than… Continue reading Fictional Science
Page to Screen: Homicide
I’ve been watching Netflix DVD’s of the late, lamented Homicide: Life of the Street lately, and a little while back, I went through the DVED’s of the first season of The Wire, which shares some of the same creative team. In particular, both series were based in part on work by David Simon, whose Homicide:… Continue reading Page to Screen: Homicide
Wire Torture
With hoops season having wound down, we’re slipping into that time of the year when I don’t have anything to watch on tv. ESPN shows nothing but baseball, the NBA, and Mel Kiper, and there’s very little on regular tv that’s worth a damn. Happily, I have a pile of Netflix DVD’s from back before… Continue reading Wire Torture