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excellently Bgrade SF telly
By dogpossum On 17th March, 2011 · 4 Comments · In buffy and angel, dollhouse, fringe, sarah connor chronicles, smallville, stargate universe, television, veronica mars, wimminz
I will watch any SF or supernatural television program at least once. Some stick, some don’t. I favour programs with female protagonists. I like queer stories or subtexts because they tend to fuck up the gender norms.
Besides the usual big names (Buffy, Dr Who), I am also into Bgrade stuff. Mostly because Bgrade stuff [...]
adventures with badass sistahs in outer space: olivia dunham
By dogpossum On 19th October, 2009 · 1 Comment · In academia, buffy and angel, digging, fringe, teaching, television, veronica mars
I love SF telly. I love it. I watch every SF program, just in case. I also like supernatural, fantasy and general make believe stuff.
But I tend to have less patience with programs that do not have good female characters. I make exceptions for programs like Supernatural which explore male characters and [...]
In the video shop* the other day, I picked up the first disc in the first season of Smallville.
I have to admit, I was inspired by my recent (and pleasant) experience with Superman Returns [insert insanely effusive gushing over the Alien Beauty that is the noo soops], and I’m not sure [...]
To all those who’ve checked up on me after the sicky bubs post:
thanks
and
I’m ok.
Status report: as per usual, the second wave of serious head cold (which, incidentally, also struck down my father this week – in two rounds – no doubt an indication of the vulnerability [...]
I am John Travolta
By dogpossum On 11th July, 2006 · 2 Comments · In buffy and angel, lindy hop and other dances, television
In our house The Squeeze is convinced that BB is not only foul, but also immoral. He leaves the room if it’s on. I don’t care much either way, in fact I’m watching it now. I’d prefer it if it was unedited, and just a bunch of people in a room with no ‘tasks’ – [...]
In response to scott’s comment here, on the Whedon EqualityNow speech.
I was quite struck by Whedon’s comment about not only writing strong women characters but also writing male characters who thought they were the fushizzle. One the one hand – yay! – but on the other, I was reminded of some thoughts [...]
If there was any reason why you wouldn’t marry Joss Whedon, his Equalitynow speech will do away with it.
So I’ve watched the OC about 4 or maybe even 5 weeks in a row now.
I think I’m hooked.
It’s so completely ridiculous – the ‘teenagers’ speak like world-weary script writers, everyone’s either really rich or ‘living in a caravan’ and really rich. Even the ‘poorest’ characters wear clothes [...]
