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Fan Expo 2016 Highlights
Fan Expo is a great comic book and science fiction convention that happens the last weekend of summer every year in Toronto. It is always a lot of fun dressing up in cosplay outfits, attending panels, meeting celebrities, getting comics autographed, and buying some new collectibles. Here are some the highlights from last weekend’s event.…
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Celebrating 50 Years of Star Trek
50 years ago today, on this very date, September 8th, the world was changed by a little television show called Star Trek. I have fond memories of the show even though I wasn’t alive when it premiered on that Thursday night back in 1966. My father and I used to watch the show together in…
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Smallville Season 11: Chaos
Smallville was a television series that ran for ten seasons and revolved around a young Clark Kent before he became Superman. I own every single season on DVD and really enjoyed watching it. I had no idea that the story continued in the medium of comics. My brother surprised me with the first 5 issues…
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Life on Mars . . . Perfect Television
Life on Mars is a brilliant television series that I have only just discovered. It centres around the character of Sam Tyler, a police officer played by John Simm. In the pilot episode, he gets hit by a car and wakes up thirty years in the past. He has some visions and hears things that…
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Writing by The Seat of Your Pants Can Work Wonders
There are two trains of thought when it comes to writing – Planning and Pantsing. The former involves writing outlines and breaking down all the elements of a story before putting pen to paper to begin the first draft. The latter involves flying by the seat of your pants and making things up as you…
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Comic Book Television: Phase 3
It’s so refreshing to see comic book inspired television hitting the airwaves with quality writing and production. We are now in a third phase of this trend, and I really hope that this one proves to be more effective than the last one. No Ordinary Family was a great show that grounded superheroes in a…
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Once Upon a Time VS Fables
I just finished watching Season One of Once Upon a Time. I really had no interest in watching the show, and it’s not because I’m not interested in fairy tales. In fact, just the opposite. I love the idea of exploring these characters within a modern world and I love the themes within the stories. The…
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Life Unexpected (Great Television)
I always borrow DVDs from the library and I’d seen this one on the shelf several times. I had no idea what the show was about, simply because of the way the library had packaged the DVD set, but something about it called to me. I just didn’t have the time to watch it until…
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Arctic Air Soars
I like uniquely Canadian television and that is precisely the reason that I have been enjoying Arctic Air. Arctic Air is an ensemble drama that can be seen Tuesdays at 9:00 on CBC. The show is set in Northern Canada and revolves around a small airline that has outdated planes. The pilots must navigate through…
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Not Impressed with Digital TV
TV signals switched from analog to digital last week. I thought I was prepared. I bought an antenna capable of picking up both analog and digital signals and have been using it all summer long. It turns out that older televisions, even when equipped with a digital antenna, cannot process a digital signal. So I…