RIP Pilot Season

No, Pilot season is not dead – yet. But the Networks don’t know what to do about it. Recently they’ve started to notice that there is a slight drop in ratings *understatement* for their shows. And they’ve discovered that other people are creating (TV) shows as well. Just like secret intelligence agencies like the GRU…

I’m slowly falling behind

I hate real life. Yes I know, it’s bringing in the money and with it the food and the DVDs but still. There are just so many seasons I still want to watch but I don’t find the time. And every year there are new shows coming out that seem interesting and you discover old…

TV Junkie: A History

I watched a lot of TV shows over the years. And when I say a lot, I mean A LOT. And I watched accross the board. Keep in mind that I’m only 35 years old. I watched The Guiding Light for two years straight (it’s a soap opera whose German title was the Springfield Story)….

3D, Ticket Prices, …

I hate 3D. In the real worlds it’s somewhat OK so you don’t crash into the car in front of you. But in the theatres it’s just a pointless rip-off of which I hope it’s going to die again – and soon. Movies in Technicolor and with sound – that were revolutions in the theatres….

LOST – The Aftermath

There’s another question that has to be asked: What have Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof done to the mystery genre as such? Who is ever going to believe the next guy who comes along in fall 2013 claiming to have written THE mystery show and promising that it will all pay off in season five?…

TV Shows – A Decade in Retrospect

Deutsche Version Since everybody seems to be starting to count at zero instead of one the first decade of this century and millennium is now over. So it’s time to recap these past ten years and take a look at the TV Shows it has given us. Let me give my résumé at the beginning:…

Movies … not doing it for me anymore.

When I look upon my 2009 Movie Marathon blog entries it confirms something I felt for quite some time now. Whenever I think about what I am going to watch next, it’s getting ever rarer that I decide to watch a movie of mine. I am still interested in them, I buy them at the…

Technological Overdose?

Deutsche Version Let me start this post with a constraint. This post is not about science-fiction shows or shows that portray obvious über-equipment (like K.I.T.T.). This is about shows that at least try to pretend to display “reality”. I am of course aware that there’s a thin line but I hope than I can show…

Move movie / TV show back in time

Deutsche Version I can’t remember how it started but I can’t seem to stop it now. Every time I watch a movie or a TV show I think about what could be the earliest time one could premiere this without destroying the pop culture references. I am not talking about stylistic means, I am talking…