Survival of the Fittest: The 2011/2012 Television Season

This season of television was pretty good. There have been some excellent shows, and some downright terrible ones. The overbearing theme of this season, for me, was impatience. I finally gave up on shows I’ve been losing interest in for years, and even found myself hesitant to devote my time to new shows. I was so [...]

The Darkest of Evils: My ‘Revenge’ Theory

Revenge is a show that loves to leave small holes in our knowledge, and distract us from paying attention to them with high emotions and plot twists, only to pull the rug out from under us whenever they like. I believe the show’s whole mythology and backstory, constructed carefully out of incomplete information and hazy [...]

DERIVATIVE WORKS: Legitimacy, Ownership and Creation (The Community Fires Dan Harmon Remix)

Do you know what’s puzzling about the divide between ‘legitimate creative works’ and ‘illegitimate creative works’? The idea that the creator and unique voice of a creative work can be legally prevented from creating it further, and that someone who has never been a part of that project can, without the creator’s consent or permission, [...]

WRITING: Fanfiction, Reenvisioning and Inspiration

I’ve been involved for the past few months with a fanfiction work. First I was mostly an outsider writing a portion freelance as a favour to a friend, but then I started getting into it and helping out on the planning end. And it’s really a lot of fun. As any regular reader of this [...]

TV: Womens’ Shows (On Game of Thrones and Its Many Awesome Ladies)

Once upon a time, ‘womens’ shows’ was a category of television considered with derision. Daytime soap operas, cooking shows, domestic dramas. Not high drama, full of swordfights, politics and intrigue. Not thoughtful, subtle dramas critiquing the past exploring the 1960′s advertising game. Yet now, we have Mad Men and we have Game of Thrones. (Spoilers for Game [...]

TELEVISION: 5 Random Shows…

Wherein I talk a little bit about five different shows, the first five that came to mind, and their best episodes…

SPEC DEVELOPMENT: Glee, “Changes”, I

I’m just beginning my writing career, and I know I’ll have plenty of missteps and ‘wasted’ pages. I don’t believe there’s such a thing as a wasted page if you’re striving to improve. Want to join me as I write a ‘waste’ spec that really want to write, even though it won’t really improve my [...]

FANDOM: Glee and the State of the Show

I’m gonna say it first-off: I’m a Glee fan. I like the show. I like the themes, I like the characters, and I especially like what it’s become in the past year or so. Glee of season one was a funny comedy, but it was also messy, frustrating and oftentimes downright mean. Its worst sin, [...]