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Niamu: And Another Thing Review
I’ve been a fan of Douglas Adams‘ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy since a friend introduced me to the books several years ago. After joyously finishing the books, I had to have more. Fortunately, I discovered that BBC Radio 4 would be continuing the radio series to complete the rest of the adaptation of the [...]
5 Feb 2010 | 8:29 pm
The Box: ‘Dollhouse’ was busted – want a refund
Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse is finally over. The first season was a little rocky. It picked up around the 6th episode (“Man on the Street”), and really intrigued me during the super-secret season finale, “Epitaph One”. With high hopes for the second season, I tuned in again to see what would happen. And the show continued [...]
30 Jan 2010 | 3:57 am
Binks is Here: Too Much Data, Not Enough Enthusiasm
A nugget from the marketer-philosopher, Seth Godin:
Too much data leads to not enough belief.
Business plans with too much detail, books with too much proof, politicians with too much granularity… it seems as though more data is a good thing, because data proves the case.
In my experience, data crowds out faith. And without faith, it’s hard [...]
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Too Much Data, Not Enough Enthusiasm
25 Jan 2010 | 1:24 am
Soup of the Day: Get Lucky
So mark knopfler has released a new album, Get Lucky. I haven’t been fortunate enough to get my hands on it, but the bits I’ve heard are fantastic. It’s still different from the Straits’ stuff, but that’s okay. Both sounds are unique and excellent in their own right. However, as someone’s put it before, he [...]
21 Sep 2009 | 8:46 pm
The Sleeping Giant: A Concise Argument Against Religion
Pretty good I thought, what do you think of his arguments?
-Danger
18 Sep 2009 | 7:13 pm
Roborant: So You’re a Little bit Older, and a Lot less Bolder Than You Used to be, So You Used to Shake ‘em Down, But Now You Stop and Think about Your Dignity
Topical Posting? Why not!
I picked this article out of my gmail news headline filter:
A-List Stars Flailing at the Box Office
It’s a decent read. I was gonna block-quote some of it, but I couldn’t find a really choice part.
The article got me thinking though. So much so that after I had closed the article and was [...]
21 Aug 2009 | 4:42 pm
Recent Comments
Brendon Walsh commented on "And Another Thing Review"
Yeah. Certainly this work will always stand apart from the original series. But for me, that’s not unlike the other mediums of Hitchhiker’s. I enjoyed them all on some level.
And thanks. I’ve been trying hard to keep current for a while here. It’s nice to get the opportunity to show off the theme every time there’s a new post.
6 Feb 2010 | 2:57 am
Granite commented on "And Another Thing Review"
Glad to hear it was at least entertaining. I’m still always skeptical of an author who decides to step into the world/universe crafted by another author. I feel that the original author knows those characters in an intimate way that only they can, and any other person is merely writing fan fiction. It may be well-written fan fiction. Even publishable fan fiction. But it is still fan fiction, and I cannot really respect that as much.
I’ll still probably read it at some point, out of obligation. But I cannot foresee myself paying money for it.
Also, kudos on being one of the only Red Cards with regular updates in content.
6 Feb 2010 | 2:48 am
Binks commented on "And Another Thing Review"
I think that’s a healthy way to look at this extension.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has been put into so many different formats, with tweaks and changes in every one, that I think it’s entirely unfair to pick one and say, “Yes, this is the TRUE HHGTTG; everything else is second-class”.
I think in the end really all that there was were the characters and that Douglas Adam’s style – the plots and details were entirely secondary (and changing them never seemed to bother Douglas Adams any; it seems strange for us to hold another writer to a higher standard).
I like this review – I fear most other reviews will be from the perspective of the frothing-at-the-mouth fan who doesn’t want anyone touching these characters.
6 Feb 2010 | 1:50 am
Granite commented on "‘Dollhouse’ was busted – want a refund"
Tear away from Glee? To my knowledge, he is only guest directing an episode, and he is planning something new already (in addition to Dr. Horrible 2).
Also, I was actually disappointed with the concept of the Attic. It didn’t make sense. I mean, they clearly put Mr. Dominic on a hard drive because they uploaded him into Victor. So why then was Mr. Dominic’s consciousness hooked up with his body to the central nervous system of the Attic. It doesn’t make sense.
As for what happened to Alpha, I suspected that Paul Ballard’s imprint in with all the other ones leveled him out a bit. Mr. Dominic was – I assume – left to rot in the attic. Hard to tell. The latter half of Season Two was inconsistent with Epitaph One, since all the dolls were let free, so they couldn’t have been living there. And there is no reason that Kilo, Romeo and Yankee should have been with Victor, because they were released into their real lives.
So much of the finale was disappointing. Quite a terrible series overall. Some good actors, but poor writing.
31 Jan 2010 | 1:25 am
Brendon Walsh commented on "‘Dollhouse’ was busted – want a refund"
I know we’ve disagreed for much of this entire series. It would seem likely that we’d be at odds by th end of it. I even expected it.
But I have to say, that perhaps all that was merely wishful thinking. I didn’t get any closure at all from this finale.
More than that, I didn’t understand half of it. What the hell happened to Alpha? Where did Mr. Dominic get to along with anyone else that was in the attic?
As a small aside, I REALLY loved the idea of the attic being a supercomputer made up of everyone’s combined neural strength.
So, I think you’ve finally corrupted my ignorance. The finale of Dollhouse and the downfall of most of the second season really ruined my overall experience.
And like you, I am also looking for a place to put the blame. I hope that Joss will go on to create bigger and much better things. Especially if he can tear away from Glee and move back into the online space again. A guy that beaten up from network television must be seriously considering online productions after wild success of Dr. Horrible.
31 Jan 2010 | 1:05 am
Andrew commented on "Too Much Data, Not Enough Enthusiasm"
I think a lot of that has to do with organizational culture. Coop has really shown me how wildly different companies can be when you’re on the inside.
Some places can be fun and exciting places to work and some places assume that an employee smiling means they’re not working hard enough.
28 Jan 2010 | 3:06 am