So let me talk a bit about Arrow, which is probably my favorite show currently airing on network television. And it’s certainly the best superhero-genre show, well, ever. A big […]
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Heroes, anti-heroes, and misaligned moral compasses
A degree or two off course doesn’t lead you wrong at first. At least, not too wrong that you can’t self-correct. But eventually that wrong course, that misaligned compass, leads […]
Read moreIn which I channel my madness
So I had reached the point where the floodwaters of my creative process couldn’t take further damming, and the levees were going to break. This would have probably resulted in […]
Read moreAvengers and Twelve-Part Structure
I had been thinking about movies and the studio-system’s somewhat slavish devotion to “three act structure”, which more and more I’m seeing as a big problem in modern cinema, and […]
Read moreAvengers Assemble: But more women next time, hmm?
This past weekend The Avengers went down in comic-book movie history. It broke box-office records, making over $200 million in just one weekend. More importantly, it was a success in […]
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