Category Archives: television

Mapping creative influence

Posted on March 31, 2013 by

        How many of us of a similiar age shared key influences forming our tastes—and for that matter what can be considered key?   In the New York Review of Science Fiction, in 1991, editor and genre raconteur … Continue reading →


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Writing: Identifying the Character Tics in “Lost”

Posted on February 13, 2013 by

So I’m working through six years of Lost, watching for dropped threads, plot twists, and red herrings, when it occurs to me that what made the show so engaging was the fantastic agglomeration of characters. Well, besides the hundreds of … Continue reading →


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House of Cards: Netflix Does Shakespeare

Posted on February 6, 2013 by

Say what you will about Netflix’s new model for serving up an entire season in one fell swoop, it works for me. I watched the series over the weekend and sticking with it for the duration helped me discover its … Continue reading →


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Writing Nowadays–The Doctor Who Template

Posted on January 14, 2013 by

A writing career makes it occasionally difficult to enjoy television or movies. Writing stories yourself means you know the patterns. You know the moment the plot should twist, you know what direction the story is going, and you can often … Continue reading →


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Emma Peel, Cinnamon Carter, and Me

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

by Nancy Jane Moore It was watching The Avengers that gave me the idea that a woman who studied martial arts could take care of herself. I knew the show was fiction — and rather tongue-in-cheek camp fiction at that … Continue reading →


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