Ongoing Thoughts on the TV Show A couple of weeks ago, I prefaced my review of Philip Pullman's The Secret Commonwealth with a few comments on His Dark Materials, the drama currently being shown on the BBC. Even without seeing the final episode of Series 1, I can say that nothing the writer and producers …
Category: television fantasy
Goodreads and Me (4)
Books I Didn't Review: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin When I began reading A Game of Thrones a couple of years or so back, I had already watched the first TV series on DVD. I loved it! It's a great story, a kind of blend of historical fiction and fantasy that really …
The Final Frontier
To Boldly Go (5) So what is the future for space opera? With modern developments in cinematography and CGI, movies and television seem to have become the favoured media for science fiction. More people are hooked on visual fantasy than ever before. Film series like Alien, Star Wars and Star Trek, singles like ET, The …
To Boldly Go (4)
The BBC Joins the Sci-fi Party Until about 1953, fewer than ten percent of British households owned a television set. There were still regions of the British Isles that could get no signal. Though television broadcasting had begun in the thirties, it was suspended at the outbreak of World War II and did not resume …
