Way back in 2013, I was a vocal advocate for a start-up company named Aereo. Aereo streamed local television stations using mini-antennas that customers “rented”. The service also provided DVR capability, so users not only could watch a local channel…
Tag: TV
Geek, TV, Twin Peaks
My Favorite TV of the decade: 2010-2019
Disney, Movies, TV
Disney buying 20th Century Fox? The potential impacts to pop culture
Geek, Trek, TV
How to fix Star Trek’s biggest problems
It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of the direction the latest Star Trek film, Into Darkness took the franchise. I won’t rehash my opinions here so, in summary: “big explosions plus weak characters and story” is not what…
Geek, TV
The worse advice I’ve ever heard about Doctor Who
“Watch it from the beginning.” That’s the recommendation that I heard from a Who fan (or “Whovian”, as some of them prefer) who was talking to someone who was interested in the show but had never seen an episode. And…
Movies, My Quora answers
Why are British detectives and spies depicted as more sophisticated than American detectives and spies, even in American movies?
Why are the British detectives and spies portrayed as more sophisticated than Americans in our movies? Three reasons I can think of. First, the genres and the archetypes of said genres both come from the United Kingdom, in an age…
TV
Continuity and TV shows – a good thing, or something that gets in the way of telling good stories?
One of the things that I’ve been thinking about over the past few weeks is continuity. Now, to some people, the term “continuity” means consistency on a TV show or movie from scene to scene (someone on the set makes…