[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/terminator.mp3] Now that the latest film is available on Netflix, as well as the television series, I’d like to discuss the rise and fall of the Terminator franchise. Examining what worked in the various stories of this mythos and where things went a bit wrong, or a lot wrong, should only take a few minutes.… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! A Terminator Retrospective
Things to Come
With work kicked into high gear since the departure of two friends, this week’s IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! has unfortunately been delayed. I do, however, have some good news to share related to my nascent career as a writer. I responded to an advert from Polymancer Studios which said they were looking for writers and… Continue reading Things to Come
Playing With Others (instead of just myself)
As my darling wife has mentioned (What’s that? You didn’t know she was blogging? Shame on you, go read her awesome posts, I’ll wait), there are several MMOs of various flavors on their way. Following her fine example, since she followed mine in getting a blog started in the first place, I’m going to take… Continue reading Playing With Others (instead of just myself)
Everything's Cooler in Space: Saturn
This will probably be my last ‘Cooler in Space’ post for a bit. I’m going to do my utmost to focus on a single major project at a time. Certainly, if something comes along for which I’ll be paid, I’ll shift my focus there, but the point is that I should take something from beginning… Continue reading Everything's Cooler in Space: Saturn
Choose Your Own Action/Adventure
Old book is old. Even the guy on the cover is old. I have a dog-eared copy of the first Choose Your Own Adventure book, the Cave of Time, somewhere in my collection. I adored reading it over and over again, because every time I picked it up, something different was going to happen. Now,… Continue reading Choose Your Own Action/Adventure
Carl Sagan Shoveling Coal
I’ve mentioned sfdebris a couple times now, most recently in my post discussing my favorite critics. I bring him up because he’s relevant to something going on in my day job currently. In his review of the Star Trek: Voyager episode Good Shepherd, he covers the opening in which Seven of Nine gives an efficiency… Continue reading Carl Sagan Shoveling Coal
Like Water Over Rock
It seems that more often than not, stories in popular media from novels to motion pictures spring fully formed from the heads of their creators. Like Athena emerging from the cranium of Zeus, except she’s a goddess and a lot of these stories are more likely to ride the short bus than a blazing chariot.… Continue reading Like Water Over Rock
Willing To Explain Why You Suck
Internet criticism is certainly nothing new. In fact, just about anywhere you turn along the so-called “information superhighway” you will come across critics of one form or another, even if an argument made against a particular point only takes the form of a lolcat. However, some Internet critics have carved out niches for themselves either… Continue reading Willing To Explain Why You Suck
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Battlestar Galactica
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/bsg.mp3] In recent years, for one reason or another, many stories in speculative fiction have been ‘rebooted’. In most cases the ‘new’ versions of the stories have suffered from either not being very well executed, getting called out for disregarding the established histories and characterizations of the source material or both. Transformers, Star Wars and… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Battlestar Galactica
About The Audience
“It’s a work of fiction. It’s a metaphor.” This is, apparently, what George Lucas says to people who criticize his work. When they bring up Jar Jar Binks, nuking the fridge or the complete dehumanization of Star Wars, he tells them something along those lines. And somewhere between his lips and my ears, the words… Continue reading About The Audience
