By shifting the questions to stakes of claims rather than just an affirmation of positive or negative images, Nishime moves toward a progressive politics of the mediated imaging of multiracial Asians.
Firefly: Still Flying doesn’t really do anything to assure me that the publication is anything more than an oddly timed fan tease.
Viewers and critics alike feel very, very strongly about the endings to their favorite shows.
Last week’s Caprica pilot has been available to watch in one form or another for over a year, so its TV premiere felt a bit anticlimactic.
Caprica’s pilot is ambitious, a bit overflowing with plot threads that beg for resolution
America’s relationship with Star Trek began before man ever set foot on the moon.
With the recent demise of the much beloved Battlestar Galactica, this avid TV watcher found himself mourning the loss of its wonderful characters in a way he seldom has before.
The series finale is about as audacious and ambitious a piece of television as I’ve ever seen.
The argument here is deeply confusing.
If I have one concern about the finale next week, it’s that the show will not be able to find an ultimate meaning for the character of Baltar.
To a real degree, I’m willing to give the show a lot of slack because it’s a story still in search of an ending.
I don’t think it’s coincidence that this was the episode to reintroduce the concept of Cylon projection.
I’ve speculated before that the show’s writers are interested in their mythology, but probably not as interested as their fans are.
Genre fiction requires the infodump.
Battlestar has always had a weakness for Big! Shocking! Moments! that turn out to just be dreams.
The episode is like a primer as to why we came to love all of these characters in the first place.
The episode is probably going to piss off a lot of fans, especially coming this late in the show’s run.
Battlestar Galactica gets a reputation for being a dark show, and some of that is well-deserved.
Nankin discusses TV direction in general, directing Battlestar specifically, and some of the other shows on TV he admires.
I started out 2008 as a paid TV critic with a happily stable and sedate personal life that rarely edged into something all that exciting.