Besides watching Speed Racer and Battle of the Planets when I was a little kid, I haven’t watched many anime series until recently. Movies, sure. Akira, Metropolis, and a lot of Studio Ghibli, but when anime was shown on TV in the States, I never seemed to catch it. Thanks to Netflix streaming a number […]
It was 1983 and I was 13 years old. I had recently fallen in love with Doctor Who and wanted to learn more about the show. I stumbled upon a magazine celebrating the 20th anniversary of the show, and while I didn’t appreciate the significance of a science fiction series running for 20 consecutive years, […]
I became a Doctor Who fan when I was 13. I wish I could say it was love at first sight, but it wasn’t. But when I fell for it, I fell hard. This was back in the Before Times, when you couldn’t buy episodes of TV shows. You either caught them when they aired […]
I once had a dream about a movie adaptation of a book that’s never been written, and the movie went like this: An orphan boy named Sebastião lives with a troupe of traveling performers, a carnival of sorts. The troupe is presided over by an old woman everyone simply calls “Mamãe.” Mamãe spends most of […]
I’ve been watching the entire run of Sapphire & Steel recently and just watched the final story, which is weird even for this show, with an ending that is pretty mindblowing and a definitive way to end the series. (If you’re not familiar with Sapphire & Steel, it’s a British SF show that ran from […]
A little joke popped into my head the other day, and I tweeted: I have a vague idea for a TV show called The Four Seasons. It would be set at a Four Seasons hotel & would run for four seasons. — Josh Neff (@joshuamneff) July 27, 2015 I got some very clever responses I […]
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