Archive for the ‘Television’ Category

Amazon Video On Demand Arrives

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Credit: Screenshot of Amazon Video On Demand
[REVIEW] — Late last year Adobe released an upgrade to their ubiquitous Flash software that enabled higher quality video. In response, overall video streaming quality on the web has improved as various video services have upgraded their offerings. Amazon is the latest to make the leap, turning [...]


Review: Bionic Woman

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Image Caption: Promotional wallpaper for NBC’s upcoming Fall 2007 television series Bionic Woman
[Commentary] | [Spoilers]
Jaime Sommers is now a bartender with an angry kid sister and a professor boyfriend outside her socio-educational demographic. After a horrific car accident, her boyfriend has her rebuilt, because it turns out he is also working for a top [...]


Doctor Who Trashes Transhumanism

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

[Commentary] | [Spoilers]
The first episode of the new season of Doctor Who was the last place I expected to see a rant against cloning, life extension, and transhumanism. In the new episode, written by Russell T. Davies, [spoiler alert] a race of feline nurses in the distant future has secretly grown and experimented [...]


An Open Letter to Apple

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Dear Apple (with greetings, and apologies, to Disney/ABC),
Thank you. Thank you for finally providing legal downloads of television shows. I just deleted all the episodes of “Lost” I downloaded via Bittorrent and from now on I will pay US$1.99 per episode (plus tax in my state) the day after that episode airs on [...]


Star Trek Ends with a Whimper

Saturday, May 14th, 2005

[Commentary] | [Spoilers]
I have always been a fan of Star Trek. The first three series are wonderful. Then came Voyager. The series premiere was promising and then the series quickly tanked. I skipped most of it but decided to check out the finale. Horrible.
Then there was Enterprise. Started out promising [...]