in the shadow of two gunmen
A few weeks back, I polled the readers of Overthinking It to ask which season of The West Wing I should watch if I were only to watch one. They overwhelmingly voted for S2. Today I kicked off my analysis of the season on Overthinking it, tackling the two-parter “In The Shadow of Two Gunmen.” [...]
toward a more perfect build
New post up on Overthinking It: a bit of a rambler about how players use video game builds (statting out your character in an RPG, or, more recently, an FPS) to imprint their personality on the game experience: Builds ultimately owe their existence to the wargame hobby. You can trace a direct line from the [...]
achewood, 2001-2011
New post on Overthinking It, giving a recap and light analysis of Achewood, the best webcomic the 21st century has produced so far: Yes, drum machines can be confounding. Why is Philippe standing on the instructions for the drum machine? No reason given. Five-year-olds just do odd things sometimes. Why not get him to move? [...]
blueprint for a monument
New post up on Overthinking It about a happier 10-year anniversary from this past Sunday: the release of Jay-Z’s album The Blueprint: The shadow of Biggie’s absence was growing more and more notable. Someone needed to step up and become unofficial chairman of the East Coast once more. And by critical consensus, attention fell on [...]
the killing finale
Today, months after anyone cared, I wrote a post for Overthinking It walking back my earlier enthusiasm for AMC’s The Killing in light of its awful season finale: Season 1 of The Killing plays out like a bad improv show. Suspects are introduced and then flatly discarded without leading anywhere else. Rosie Larsen’s ex-boyfriend was [...]
words are wind
New post up on Overthinking It, in which I talk about some of the phrases George R.R. Martin uses a dozen times or more in A Dance with Dragons: ADWD is the first Song of Ice and Fire novel that I read on the Kindle. This has several excellent advantages over traditional hardback or paperback [...]
the five ages of Hollywood
New post up on Overthinking It today about the way Hollywood brackets all actors, regardless of their actual age, into five broad age buckets: When you’re an actor, no one cares how old you actually are. All the producers care about is which of the five ages you fit into. Angelina Jolie has played a [...]
blood, tits and scowling
New post up on Overthinking It about premium cable’s favorite genre for historical drama: Blood, Tits and Scowling. And yes, it’s a genre: The beauty of Blood, Tits and Scowling as a genre is that, when you put them all together, it creates a perpetual engine for drama. A competent showrunner and a good production [...]
x-men: tinker, xavier, lensherr, spy
New post up on Overthinking It comparing X-Men First Class to the spy fiction of the Sixties: Despite the explosive mutant battle on the shores of Cuba that caps the film, the primary conflict in First Class is espionage. Sebastian Shaw operates behind the scenes to provoke the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to the brink [...]
the economics of the death star
If you’re wondering why content has seemed so light this week, it’s because this is the only place you’ve been looking (like a sucker). Check this out: * I tag teamed on a Think Tank with the rest of the Overthinking It crew on the economics of the Death Star blowing up a planet. This [...]
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