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TV v. Film: The Kick-Ass Women of TV
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...“Way Down in the Hole” With The Wire
22. January 2008 Posted by Marcia
The fifth season of The Wire has received a tremendous amount of press, most of it slavering over the pure genius of the show (I include myself in that). There has also been a fair amount of debate regarding the direction of this season. Is David Simon giving too much airtime to the newsroom at [...]
Continue reading...Kooks, Nutjobs and General Incompetents
25. October 2007 Posted by Marcia
I have tried to make this entry funny. Really, I have. It turns out that there is a very fragile anger/snark balance, and right now I’m too annoyed to properly access the snark. You see, yesterday I gave the first two episodes of Samantha Who? a try. The show has received fairly warm reviews and [...]
Continue reading...Same old, same old. Is ‘groundbreaking’ television a myth?
22. October 2007 Posted by Marcia
We’re about a month into this year’s crop of new shows and the victors are starting to emerge. Interestingly, the only clear winner so far is Pushing Daisies, a show that is being heralded for its originality in the midst of the startling mediocrity of the other programs. Fans and critics both agree: it’s [...]
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7. August 2008 Posted by Marcia
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