Author: tederick
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Electronic Oblivion: A Hymn to the Fallen
My JVC handicam was on its last legs; it was no longer able to play back tapes reliably, and I figured its ability to record would be out the window in short order. This was the small camera I bought in 2003 to supplement my larger, heavier Canon GL-1. I wanted a cheaper, run-and-jump camera…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Naked Now”
“It never happened.” The Data/Tasha Yar sex scene remains a standout of not just Star Trek: The Next Generation but the entire Star Trek franchise, and possibly the whole history of shipping and slash fiction and cosplay and ooey-gooey SF sexual what-would-happen-ifs. That Data/Tasha comes in the middle of an episode that most folks consider…
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Review: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
“But the Joker cannot win,” a broken and defeated Batman pronounced at the end of The Dark Knight, conjuring a lie which drives the engine of The Dark Knight Rises. Terrorists always do win, is the problem; their part of the job is easy. All they have to do is shatter the certainty at the…
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Tim Burton’s BATMAN RETURNS: A Look Back
“The Bat, The Cat, The Penguin,” the movie posters snarled in the summer of 1992, and Batman Returns did not disappoint; here was a Gotham bestiary par excellence. If the task of sequelizing Batman was an inherently thankless one – Tim Burton almost didn’t take the job, and audiences did not take to Returns as…
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Tim Burton’s BATMAN: A Look Back
Batman arrived at the exact right moment in my young life to become the Thing With Which I Was The Most Obsessed for the entirety of the subsequent six or seven years. It eventually took, I think, about a year of Batman Forever hangover to finally cure me of the disease. When the first Batman came…
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Blogging The Next Generation: “Encounter at Farpoint”
“Well, this is a new ship, but she’s got the right name.” The entire gulf between the male and female of our species might be mapped in the lack of understanding in my girlfriend’s eyes, as I attempted to explain to her why the high-definition upgrade of Star Trek: The Next Generation – and particularly, its visual effects –…
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My Week With Alien, Part 5: PROMETHEUS
Originally published at The Substream. Spoilers. Thrilling and dangerous, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is the vigorous work of a mature director, returning with terrifying intelligence to the rigours and riddles of long-ago dreams. The film does as advertised. It is hard sci-fi, thickly woven with ideas. It scours the corners of the Alien taxonomy in order…
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My Week With Alien, Part 4: ALIEN RESURRECTION
Originally published at The Substream. The dirty little secret at the heart of dirty little Alien Resurrection is that for all its marketing claims to the contrary, and for all of Joss Whedon’s “there’s dead and then there’s dead” reverse-engineering, the fourth and final proper Alien movie does not resurrect the Alien franchise at all…