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TV’s Strongest Female Characters Share One Stupid Flaw
Supposedly empowered women are making terrible decisions because of men
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10 Greatest TV Pilot Episodes
With a new television season upon us, we recall the greatest series-launchers ever
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Comic-Con Roundup: The Final Not-Final Answers to Lost
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As Comic-Con wraps up in San Diego (at which point, I believe, people start getting on line for the panels at next year’s Comic-Con in San Diego), a few more items of TV news:
* Entering the panel discussion wearing a stormtrooper outfit and a Dharma jumpsuit respectively, Carlton …
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Happy Lost Day! One Year After
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A year ago today, Lost came to an end, the Island castaways (or many of them) met in the afterlife, and the Internet exploded. I reviewed the finale the night the show ended; I reconsidered it a few days later; and I returned to rewatch the finale at the end of last summer.
I had planned, at …
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Geek Fight! Lost, Thrones Camps Square Off Over GRRM's Dis of Finale
In yesterday’s New Yorker, Laura Miller (a former colleague of mine from Salon) published an excellent profile of George R. R. Martin—author of the novels on which HBO’s Game of Thrones is based—which focused on the increased demands by fans on creators in an era of ever-more online kibitzing and access. GRRM, for years, has been …
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HIMYM Watch: Smoke Monster
Not a ton to say about a funny, if slight, Thanksgiving episode of How I Met Your Mother, but I couldn’t really let the presence of Jorge Garcia and the Lost homage pass without noting it for Tuned Inland. Obviously the mere presence of Garcia—in the role of someone bearing a curse—was the biggest reference, but we also got the …
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Lost Rewatch Week: Who Got What They Deserved?
Note: I’m on vacation this week. While I’m gone, I’ve set up a week of discussion posts revisiting the Lost finale in time for the Lost series DVD set, out Aug. 24. In other words, this is a recording; you cannot press 0 to speak to a real live person.
Upon learning that Jack was the Candidate who ended up succeeding Jacob, Locke told …
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Lost Rewatch Week: Answer the Damn Question!
Note: I’m on vacation this week. While I’m gone, I’ve set up a week of discussion posts revisiting the Lost finale in time for the Lost series DVD set, out Aug. 24. In other words, this is a recording; you cannot press 0 to speak to a real live person.
I’ll keep this one simple: now that Lost is all said, done and epilogued, has it …
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Lost Rewatch Week: The Old Men in Charge
Note: I’m on vacation this week. While I’m gone, I’ve set up a week of discussion posts revisiting the Lost finale in time for the Lost series DVD set, out Aug. 24. In other words, this is a recording; you cannot press 0 to speak to a real live person.
After Desmond descends into the pit in the Lost finale, “The End,” we see Smokey (in …
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Lost Rewatch Week: The New Man in Charge
Note: I’m on vacation this week. While I’m gone, I’ve set up a week of discussion posts revisiting the Lost finale in time for the Lost series DVD set, out Aug. 24. In other words, this is a recording; you cannot press 0 to speak to a real live person.
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The Lost complete series DVD …
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Lost Rewatch Week: This Is the Place That You All Made Together
Note: I’m on vacation this week. While I’m gone, I’ve set up a week of discussion posts revisiting the Lost finale in time for the Lost series DVD set, out Aug. 24. In other words, this is a recording; you cannot press 0 to speak to a real live person.
Since we’re taking a second look at the Lost finale this week, we may as well begin …
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Robo-James Time Machine: Lost Finale Rewatch
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This is the end of Robo-James’ Time Machine Week, but Flesh-James still has another week on vacation. So I’m going to set up next week’s robo-posts by setting the Time Machine back a mere few months: to May 23, the date of Lost‘s finale. Next week, the complete Lost series DVD set comes out, and …