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JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight

My writing-about-stuff-obligations have been encroaching on my watching-stuff obligations lately, so I have a little brush to clear from my TiVo backlog–particularly Battlestar Galactica, on which I feel I owe you a post sometime. I have a date with Topic-of-the-Day Heroes, and a solid commitment to finally get back in touch with Prison Break (or [...]

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Heroes/Lost: Which Kind of Geek Are You?

A couple commenters on this morning’s Heroes-vs.-Lost throwdown make a good point: the shows are built to the tastes of two different breeds of geek–comic-book/adventure fans for Heroes, mythology obsessives for Lost. We’re into Grossmanian territory here, but let’s explore this. I think there’s some overlap between the two; you can’t ignore the comic book [...]

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Super Bowl Aftermath: Offended 2, Defense 0

First they came for the Snickers guys. Now Super Bowl ad objectors have taken down another spot from the big game. GM has announced that it will redo a commercial in which an assembly-line robot has a dream in which he commits suicide after dropping a bolt, after protests from a suicide-prevention group. Let me [...]