t.v.
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Inspiration From Television
I really enjoyed watching Battlestar Galactica Season 2.0 on DVD this week. The shows is really well done. It is brilliantly writing and acted, and has a lot of suspense and action. (If you haven’t seen this show yet, there are spoilers ahead.) Science fiction is great for shining a light on real life situations…
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Feel Good Interpretation
I am trying to write a blog entry while Jeopardy is on the television behind me. I am only half paying attention to the Teen Tournament because my time is awfully short these days. I would like to be watching the show and giving it my undivided attention but I can’t. I don’t have any…
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Rabbits Ears and Wireless Internet
I get three channels on my TV that come in quite well. For the most part, that is enough for me. But I really wanted to watch the season premiere of Heroes on Monday. The problem was that it was on a channel that doesn’t really come in. So I moved my rabbit ears every…
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A Teacher’s Lunch
“Seeing a teacher’s actual lunch is, like, so depressing.” Angela on My So-Called Life This quote has been running over and over in my head whenever I have to eat lunch with my students. It comes from a TV show where a teenage girl is asked to stay after class by a teacher. The teacher…
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This Time of Year I Miss TV Guide
I remember the first time I went to a grocery store and couldn’t find a TV Guide to look at while I waited in line. I scanned the other aisles thinking that perhaps they were just sold out in this aisle. But I didn’t see any. TV Guide became a casualty in this modern age…
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Dragons Can Be Defeated
“The important thing about any story where you fight a dragon is not that you’re telling people that dragons are real. But that you’re telling people that dragons can be defeated. And that is a huge, true thing. And something that should never be forgotten.”– Neil Gaiman, writer Beowulf from the DVD bonus feature “Beasts…
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What Happened to Pan and Scan?
I used to love renting movies and seeing the green screen with white printing that reads “This movie has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit your screen.” Now when I put on a video or DVD, I rarely see this warning any more. And then when the movie starts…
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My Top 5 All-time Favourite TV Shows
1) Jericho2) Everwood3) My So-Called Life4) Star Trek5) M.A.S.H. I would like to take some time to explain why each of these shows is on my list and how I managed to put them in this order. I think that might take more than one entry so I plan to write a specific post about…
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Different Roles We Play
I read May Not Appear Exactly as Shown by Gordon J.H. Leenders and was intrigued by this passage. “Hey, like Shakespeare said, ‘All the world’s a stage and all the people actors.’” “Life is not a play, Ryan. And Brad and Nicole are not actors.” “The play’s the thing Katelin.” “Ryan, stop it, life is…
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Commercials Ruin the Song
Why is it that TV commercials rarely use original music anymore? I know that at one point in time this was standard practice. Original themes and jingles used to be created for every product on the air. It seemed like everything had its own song. Nowadays products seem to hijack songs that have been pre-recorded.…