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Tag Archives: Genre
Haven and the State of Urban Fantasy
Watched my third and final episode of Haven tonight. There’s nothing terribly wrong with the show, but there’s nothing much right with it either. It just seems like something I’ve seen before, and while it’s not a bad show, I can’t really get into it. The story is about a town where special people live. [...]
Posted in Blog, Writing Also tagged Buffy Episode, Choices, Cliche, Cop, Dreams, Emotional State, Execution, Fantasy Story, Mysteries, Rage, Replay, Sanctuary, Strokes, Time Of Troubles, Urban Fantasy, Variation, Weather, X Files, X Men 10 Comments
Chances Are . . .
Just how many times a day is Law & Order on anyway? Can’t we just give it its own network and be done with it? Really. I’m totally cool with that. I’d probably even watch it. Meanwhile, I can’t get a single Knight Rider rerun. Where’s the justice in this universe? Sure, I could spring [...]
Posted in Blog, Comic Books, Writing Also tagged Amp, Audience, Blog, Books, Brave Soul, Coat Of Paint, Dvds, Fantasy Writers, Handful, Knight Rider, Modern Fantasy, Publishing Houses, Rerun, Sequels, Short Answer, Spinoff, Television Networks, Universe 13 Comments
Zombie Correction
A couple of posts ago, I wrote about the zombie genre and how I feel it is a dead end as a storytelling convention because it’s just the same story over and over and over again. Well, I’m not ready to change that notion just yet. But at one point I did refer to zombie [...]
Posted in Blog Also tagged Affection, Audience, Comfort Food, Genres, Good Fight, Harlequin Romance, Harlequin Romances, Horror, Notion, Novels, Popularity, Prolific Publisher, Screw, Storytelling, Whitewash, Zombie Fans 6 Comments
Rune Age (A Game Tuesday Review)