Confession: This TVWriter™ minion is not a fan of the film THE BIG SHORT, but you know what: I still disagree with everything the fictional network exec here suggests.
What a strange feeling to enjoy laughing both at and with the butt of the joke:
Month: September 2016
Web Series: “Heroes of Color”
This series is so well done, so insightful, we at TVWriter™ just can’t say enough good things about it.
Watch:
And while you’re at it, you also should take a look at this:
Major Storytelling Arcs According to…an A.I?
In our technological age, nothing is sacred, not even storytelling. Once the sacred purview of visionaries and seers, storytelling now finds itself being analyzed by poets, writers, geniuses, fools, and of course artificial intelligences of the mechanical kind. Here’s the latest update on what the A.I.s are finding. To paraphrase an ancient story title from the earliest days of Mad Magazine, “Believe it or Don’t!”
2. Riches to Rags (fall)
Doug Snauffer sees “Major Crimes”
TVWriter™’s and Larry Brody’s Facebook friends have the best posts on their timelines. Take this one, from yesterday:
by Doug Snauffer
I didn’t even know MAJOR CRIMES was still on the air. Not that I really care for it anymore anyways.
John Ostrander: Not Quite a Trekkie
by John Ostrander
It’s the 50th Anniversary of the cultural phenomenon known as Star Trek. I go back that far (and somewhat farther); I saw The Original Series when it was Originally Run. I can say I was a fan from the beginning; I hated when it was cancelled, I was happy when I learned they were going to make a movie, I was horribly disappointed when I saw that movie, and I had my faith renewed when The Wrath of Khan came out and so on and so on.
However, I can’t say I was ever a Trekkie. (Yes, I know that for many, the correct term is “Trekker”; I’m sympathetic but the general public is more familiar with the designation “Trekkie” so that’s what I’m using.) I was and am a fan, especially of some of the movies, but not with the intensity that many feel. William Shatner (the original Captain Kirk) could get pretty hammy. Leonard Nimoy, however, as Spock was always “fascinating”.
I admired the show perhaps more than loved it although some episodes still stick in my mind. In particular, I remember “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield”. IMDB summarizes the plot as follows: “The Enterprise encounters two duo-chromatic and mutually belligerent aliens who put the ship in the middle of their old conflict.” The visual was simple and stunning – one alien was black on the left side of their body and white on the other half while the other alien was a mirror image – white on the left, black on the right. Their hatred and desire to destroy one another was a stunning metaphor for racial hatred that remains true today.