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Man, people on the interwebz are crazy about their top ten lists, especially when years, decades and centuries end. I’d just like to remind everyone reading that decades (that is, periods of ten years) are ending all the time. For example, the decade that began at 2:50 P.M. on December 21, 1999 just ended a [...]

None of these things would really generate a good post on their own (well, maybe they would if I wasn’t so lazy…), so here’s a little link dump to start your weekend off right: Joss Whedon wants the Terminator franchise This is a brilliant idea for a Halloween costume If someone doesn’t make these for [...]

Late last week the word hit the TV trades that Fox was going to renew Joss Whedon’s creepily premised show, Dollhouse, for at least another 13-episode run. That’s good news considering it’s slagging Nielsen ratings (which were bad for a broadcast network but would have been amazingly good on a cable channel). Speculation about Fox’s [...]

It’s a momentous week for SF TV. “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” ends its first season this week. Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse” is poised to start getting interesting next episode (or so says its creators and cast). And perhaps most notably, “Battlestar Galactica,” the bloated and over-rated outer space melodrama, is finaly coming to an end [...]

Okay, I admit that the title of this post, while technically relevant to the material I’m about to present, is probably a bit more dramatic than necessary, but I’m hoping to draw some clicks from my Twitter followers and I needed the auto-tweet to sound compelling — and nothing compels the tweeps like some new-media-hating. [...]

This might be a new category at Candleblog.  I could write posts about Christopher Hitchens, Tom Waits and Chris Matthews in that category.  Here’s an entry: Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, co-writers of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog, had some drinks on Labor Day weekend and sang songs about food to their webcam in their bedroom.  [...]

We noted on today’s episode of Poli Sci-Fi Radio that it was a pretty slow week, sci-fi-wise, despite the fact that it’s the opening weekend of a Star Wars movie. And indeed, when Emily and I walked into the theater for a 9:30 screening tonight at 9:15, there wasn’t a soul in the room. Eventually [...]

Odum and I have been going at it in the comments thread of my Dark Knight post.  I’m mentioning it here because that post has slipped behind the front page of Candleblog and it’s an interesting disagreement we’re having.  Any Candleblog readers who are into comics should check it out. I’m posting the two most [...]

Finally.  I’d been wondering if Rorschach’s face would change in real time or if it would just be different every time we saw him.  It’s one of the tough things about adapting a comic book to film, comics being a medium of still images.  The answer: real time.  For the record, it’s not the choice [...]

The first part of Joss Whedon’s web mini series, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog, is up.  It is A: awesome, and B: not for everyone.  It is, after all, a musical starring Doogie Howser.  I know that some people won’t be able to get beyond these apparent negatives, but Doogie Howser (who is actually named Neil [...]