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Links and Updates
Hi all, I thought I'd do a quick update on what's happening over on my blog.
I've finally completed another post on Exploring Tropes - this one is Gondor Calls For Aid, examining the variety of ways in which a character can reach out for help, and how they can do so most effectively. I was planning on completing one of these posts per month, but ( Read more... ) -
Links and Updates
Hi LiveJournal friends! I thought I’d give a quick update as to what’s happening on my new, improved blog.
So far I’ve done three instalments of my promised Exploring Tropes project, in which I list and talk about the six most illuminative examples of any given trope. So far I’ve got:
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Love at First Sight
You Shall Not Pass
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Salem: "We All Fall Down"
Well, let’s be honest here - Salem is not a good show (it’s too messy, too exploitative, too weird for that), but it’s just managed to pull off an immensely satisfying finale. Unlike other shows, which refuse to significantly shift the status-quo for seasons on end, Salem has just followed through on its promises and changed things for good, not ( Read more... ) -
Salem: "Ashes, Ashes"
Well, we’re at the penultimate episode of the first season, and I find that (for a change) I only have a few things to share.
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Salem: "Cat and Mouse"
This show confuses me on so many levels. The plot unfolds in fits and starts, with plot-lines introduced and dropped at random, only to be picked up again when I least expect it. The effect its characters have on me are equally confusing, with some of them appealing and interesting one week, only to be bland and irritating the next. Its world- ( Read more... ) -
Dear followers...
I know it's been quiet around here lately, but that's because I'm in the process of shifting to a different blogging site. LiveJournal is becoming increasingly difficult to use (it took me twenty minutes to get my last review under a cut, and even then it still didn't do what I wanted it to) and I was feeling ready for a change ( Read more... )