June 2012
11 posts
The Legend of Korra: What's Next?
Just finished Book 1 of The Legend of Korra. Not to give too much away, but the ending is much more… conclusive than I would have expected. If that was the end of the Legend of Korra, and the next time we checked in with the Avatar universe it was to see what the next Avatar was like, it could work.
But fortunately it’s not the end of Korra’s story, and Book 2 will continue...
When did Aaron Sorkin become Colonel Jessup?
Seriously, what happened? When did he become a proponent of the “Great Men” theory of history?
Okay, in some ways, Sorkin has always written about men. From A Few Good Men and The American President and from Sports Night to The Newsroom, Sorkin has always had male leads, but they used to work for and with powerful women.
The leads of Sports Night are the anchors, but the sports...
Mr. Mask: Or, What everyone gets wrong about Dr....
And when I say everyone, I mean everyone. Not just most people today don’t understand the original story, though that’s true, but every retelling of the story, from the earliest stage plays to Steven Moffat’s otherwise brilliant miniseries Jekyll, miss a key point of Robert Louis Stephenson’s original story:
There is no Mr. Hyde.
Edward Hyde is not a separate personality...
Genre and Prejudice
This is the piece I meant to write last Friday. That was when I was writing for twenty four, a magazine by and about creative professionals made from start to finish in twenty four hours. The theme of the issue was limits, and I wanted to write about the limits of genre.
And I did. And I didn’t. Because what I did write about was a very specific aspect of genre, when definitions of a genre...
The Morning After
It’s a beautiful sunny morning. A cool breeze blows in and birds call to each other in bright notes. I have been awake for twenty four hours now, and I have been working on this magazine for almost twenty one. Most of the magazine has been written and designed, and most of us are still at work, but not all. About a third of us are passed out around the apartment, and there’s a peaceful...
