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Finger-Steepling and Sharks: August 2012
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A Blog for Narrative lovers. Wednesday, 8 August 2012. Friendly Fire in The War Against Cliche: A Look at the Endless Recycling of Martin Amis. Martin Amis has little time for repetition. All writing is a war against cliche, he argues. This is from his memoir. Unfortunately, if we apply this scrupulous attention to recurring details that Amis found lacking on that occasion to his own cultural contributions over the years, we find the war against cliche is strafed by friendly fire. The Observer, 1987).
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Finger-Steepling and Sharks: May 2012
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A Blog for Narrative lovers. Wednesday, 30 May 2012. A Look at the Conduct of Graham Linehan and Others on Twitter. GET LOST MISOGYNISTIC GAMERGATE SCUM SHARING LINKS TO THIS. THE FACT THAT THIS PIECE THREE YEARS AGO CRITICISED SOMEONE WHO (RIGHTLY) HATES YOU AS MOST PEOPLE WITH BRAINCELLS DO DOESN'T MEAN YOU'VE FOUND AN ALLY. LINEHAN HAS FAULTS BUT HE DOESN'T LIKE SERIAL KILLERS OR GAMERGATERS, AND ON THOSE ISSUES I DON'T DIFFER FROM HIM. The follow-up to this piece is here:. One Foot in the Grave.
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Finger-Steepling and Sharks: September 2010
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A Blog for Narrative lovers. Monday, 20 September 2010. Only You Can Save Mankind. Civilisations under threat from Imperialism, (. Cities suffering from racial tensions and bigotry (. Or nations ruled by religious autocracy (. Ankh Morpork, a city that appears in many of the Discworld books, started off as a playground for Pratchett to set funny characters in, but Pratchett developed it into a place full of violence and injustice without losing his feel for the interplay between its citizens. We must not...
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Finger-Steepling and Sharks: May 2010
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A Blog for Narrative lovers. Tuesday, 18 May 2010. What's wrong with heroes? Some Thoughts on Superhero Narratives. I mean, it doesn't say anything. It’s talking about Batman and the Joker, and says that yes, psychologically Batman and the Joker are mirror images of each other. So? 8230;] You're never going to meet somebody remotely like either of those two people. You're not going to meet people who have been driven mad in that way. So while Daniel Craig can lend the series an extra sense of danger and ...
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Finger-Steepling and Sharks: Why Terminator Genisys didn't work (and why Terminator 3 was grossly underrated)
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A Blog for Narrative lovers. Saturday, 25 July 2015. Why Terminator Genisys didn't work (and why Terminator 3 was grossly underrated). Is the kind of film that people wrongly said the third film was. I should say that I'm a lot more tolerant of the Terminator. Franchise than a lot of people have been since James Cameron moved on. I loved the first two films, but I also loved the third film and the TV series. I was particularly annoyed when Mark Kermode described Genisys. Adam Roberts has pointed out.
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Finger-Steepling and Sharks: November 2011
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A Blog for Narrative lovers. Friday, 18 November 2011. How Steven Moffat ruined Doctor Who. Update here: http:/ richardhcooper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/steven-and-women-or-how-steven-moffat.html. River Song is right: this is the Doctor's darkest hour. This version, week after week, is exactly what we expect from. Darkly-lit "spooky" sets, monsters, hurried technobabble, the claim that the whole universe will be destroyed, and the cutest, safest, most unsurprising and least interesting Doctor ever devised, ...
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Finger-Steepling and Sharks: March 2012
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A Blog for Narrative lovers. Tuesday, 27 March 2012. The Trouble with Geek Culture. If you haven't read this splendid piece by the American actor Patton Oswalt, http:/ m.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff angrynerd geekculture/all/1. You really should, as it's the most interesting thing anyone's written on popular culture in years. Have a look, too, at these two pieces: http:/ www.edrants.com/review-the-green-hornet-2011/. To scripting superhero movies (she wrote. The League of Gentlemen. While the latter wou...
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Finger-Steepling and Sharks: June 2012
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A Blog for Narrative lovers. Thursday, 28 June 2012. One Foot in The Grave: some thoughts on a masterpiece. One Foot in the Grave. Is one of the least suburban, least traditional sitcoms ever made. It's worth stressing this, because the. Tends to print Victor Meldrew's picture whenever there's a piece warning that old-style BBC 1 sitcoms are on the way out. However often you may have heard people say "I don't belieeeeve it," there's nothing safe, cozy, conservative or reactionary about. In which Victor t...
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Finger-Steepling and Sharks: June 2010
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A Blog for Narrative lovers. Monday, 28 June 2010. TV Shows you mustn't forget #1: Operation Good Guys. Here's the first in a recurring series in which I look at a TV gem I hope hasn't been overshadowed. Let's start with. Operation Good Guys (1997-2000, BBC2, written by Ray Burdis, Dominic Anciano and Hugo Blick). 8221; he asks the cameramen as the survival expert pursued him in a tank, “He doesn’t like black guys? Wednesday, 23 June 2010. Are fairytales boring now? And other thoughts on clichés. How ref...
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