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• Zero History by William Gibson
  on Apr 9, 2013
  If you thought he could write about the future, you should see him write about the present. William Gibson's 2011 novel, the third of an informal trilogy that includes Pattern Recognition (2005) and Spook Country (2007), is relentlessly contemporary...
• Game of Thrones Season 3 Premiere: Valar Dohaeris
  on Apr 3, 2013 in Lord of the Rings Game of Thrones
  The most pirated and anticipated, ratings record breaking premiere got off to a steady start. Did some good old catching up with all our old friends, a minute or two north of the wall, a little check-in with the surviving Baratheon "licking his wound...
• Three Steps to Enjoying Oz The Great and Powerful
  on Mar 19, 2013
  James Franco is Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs. That is, the Wizard of Oz. Trippy as it would be for Dorothy to turn up, her house having landed on a lady with real nice heals, and be asked, "Are you a good witc...
• Star Trek's Unaired Pilot: The Cage
  on Mar 14, 2013 in pilots The Matrix Star Trek Battlestar Galactica
  It's 1964, and television Western writer Gene Roddenberry has just been rejected by NBC executives for the pilot to his new interstellar science fiction project: Star Trek. That pilot was entitled The Cage, and it was turned down on the basis that it...
• Sherlock Holmes and the Unaired Pilot
  on Mar 8, 2013
  Sherlock is a consulting detective who lives at 221B Baker Street in modern day London. He's a mass-texter with an addiction to nicotine patches, because "It's impossible to sustain a smoking habit in London these days", and he solves crime using wha...
• Wheel of Time: The Series Everyone Wanted to End
  on Mar 6, 2013
  Ever read a book that you just did not want to end? Of course you have. Ever read 11,916 pages of a series that began two decades ago, that had its most vehement fans calling for the end to come since around 1992? We've been calling for Tarmon Ga...
• Doctor Who
  on Mar 4, 2013
  It didn't age that well, it's goofy, the premise was nothing unique for its time, and the acting was... well... British. Now that I have your attention, and quite possibly your eternal hatred, let's get to what's good about the Dr. Who Pilot. I lik...
• Pilot: Doctor Who
  on Mar 4, 2013
  It didn't age that well, it's goofy, the premise was nothing unique for its time, and the acting was... well... British. Now that I have your attention, and quite possibly your eternal hatred, let's get to what's good about the Dr. Who Pilot. I lik...
• What does the Perfect Pilot Accomplish?
  on Feb 15, 2013 in Doctor Who Lost Angel Once Upon a Time House Game of Thrones Star Trek Charmed Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  Before we dig in to a series of pilot episode reviews, let’s take a look at the criteria for a perfect first episode. Exposition: “Don't you just hate exposition?” is a line (from Charmed) that really stuck with me, probably because it str...
• Piloting a Series on Pilots
  on Feb 7, 2013 in Sherlock Lost Once Upon a Time Game of Thrones Dr. Who Star Trek Firefly
  What do Once Upon a Time, Dr. Who, Lost,  Firefly, Star Trek, Sherlock, Battlestar Galactica, and Game of Thrones all have in common? Well, lots of things actually; stellar casts and crews, good scores for the most part, strong niche&n...

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