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excellently Bgrade SF telly

By 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 [...]

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oo, interesting

By On 22nd October, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In fringe

I just discovered Jasika Nicole, the actress who plays Astrid, is gay. She is also a scribbler and she has a blog.

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adventures with badass sistahs in outer space: olivia dunham

By 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 [...]

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television round up

By On 12th April, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In dollhouse, fringe, sarah connor chronicles, television

1. Dollhouse is crap.
Because:
– I’m pretty sure it fails the Bechdel test.
– the gender stuff sucks arse. A bunch of beautiful young women kept, powerless, by a business which rents out their bodies for vast sums of cash. It’d be horrifying if there was no chance of [...]

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