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TV, TV: Where Did Our Love Go?
My life has changed quite a bit in the last couple of months. I went from working in a respectable career, earning this remarkable thing called “money”, to being an impoverished student whose primary source of income was the weekly pub quiz. That’s not the only change. Those who follow this blog might have noticed a [...]
Continue reading...Fall Cleaning
29. September 2008 Posted by Marcia
Something terrible has happened. This last week, I discovered that I need to watch less TV. No, I didn’t have some sort of epiphany about how I was wasting my life on the sofa, or decide that turning off the TV would reduce my carbon footprint. I simply ran out of time. Apparently, running two sites [...]
Continue reading...Raging With Olympic Fever
8. August 2008 Posted by Marcia
In just a few minutes, the opening ceremonies of the 2008 summer Olympics kick off. I am stupidly excited about this. I love the Olympics with a love that makes absolutely no sense. I’m not a sporty type at all, unless you count my high school basketball career and fierce Wii tennis skills. I rarely sit [...]
Continue reading...TV v. Film: The Kick-Ass Women of TV
7. August 2008 Posted by Marcia
On Tuesday, I wrote about some of the ways television creates strong female characters. Now, film has its share of powerful women — Ripley, Sarah Connor, Thelma & Louise, and Clarice Starling, to name a few – but television has the luxury of creating equally powerful characters and then building upon them for multiple seasons. [...]
Continue reading...More Great TV Women: Battlestar Galactica
7. August 2008 Posted by Marcia
Guest poster Shelly had far too much to say about the women of BSG to limit it to a blurb in another post. Here, then, are some of the reasons the women of BSG are worth talking about. On Tuesday, Marcia posted about the lack of strong female characters in movies, especially compared to the abundance [...]
Continue reading...TV v. Film: The Benefits of Time
6. August 2008 Posted by Marcia
Dan from Tifaux is back with us today with yet another way in which TV is superior to film: it has the time to be. The brevity and economy of film is one of its assets. Although, if you ask me, movies are getting way too long these days. (But you didn’t. So nevermind.) It’s a [...]
Continue reading...TV v. Film: We’ve Got Character
5. August 2008 Posted by Marcia
Dan kicked things off yesterday with a look at how television is a more social experience than film. Today, it’s my turn to consider why television is so much better at creating characters — particularly if you have XX chromosomes. It took me a long time to admit that I liked television better than film. Film, [...]
Continue reading...Television v. Film, Part 1
All this week, Pop Vultures is combining forces with Dan at Tifaux to explore an issue near and dear to our hearts: why television is actually better than film. Today, Dan kicks things off with a look at one of the myths of television, that it is a medium for the anti-social couch potato. Watching television [...]
Continue reading...I’m Not Doing the Hulu Dance
15. July 2008 Posted by Marcia
Yesterday, I considered doing an entire week of posts about fun summer television. It’s July, I’m happy, why not celebrate all the light-hearted fare available at the moment? But then something happened this morning that was very much not fun. It was, in fact, anti-fun. At 8:00, gigantic mug of coffee firmly in hand, I happily [...]
Continue reading...RIP, George Carlin
He’ll be missed. Here he is, doing his classic “Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television” bit. Extremely NSFW, obviously, unless you work for Al Swearengen.
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