She had Farscape, which was… Well, not really a hit, but a thing many of us fondly remember!

Thanks, that clarifies a lot. I find this tension between reality and staging absolutely fascinating.

I wonder how many wrestlers get bitter about that. It must feel weird to have you career dependent on the creatives to such an extent.

Could anyone recommend a good website that explains how the wrestling business operates? What I'm really most curious about is how are the results of the matches decided. Is it that the people who decide about this stuff give the victory to the wrestler who they think is the most popular amongst the audience? Or…

Who knew that they wouls squeeze so much pathos from a death of one of the least favourite characters? He died just as I started to like him, even despite Bruce's still wooden acting. The Sarah and Helena reunion made me shed a tear.

This scene has burned itself into my memory to such an extent that I think of it not only every time I see Michael B. Jordan, but also anytime I hear the name "Wallace". Like, I watch a soccer match and there is a player named "Wallace" and all I think is where the fuck he is.

So this show has Xander Berkeley AND Lucy Lawless???

I'm thankful for all this lack of enthusiasm. Shit, I'm one of the people who actually liked The Dark Knight Rises, if just because I had low expectations.

I will admit that I do not think of this show very critically (not that it does not deserve analysis, what with its ability to weave big themes into silly plots). As long as I get Sarah and Helena kicking ass and Alison being bitchy, I will be happy. That's why the second season's weaknesses did not bother me that…

Vampire Diaries came close. In the three seasons I saw, ALL magic users happened to be black.

That reminds me of a science-fiction novella I wrote a year ago. Basically, I squeezed about twelve important characters in a 70-pages novella and created extensive backstories for every one of them. How did I actually put those backstories on page? A lot of exposition relayed by an omniscient narrator, that's how.…

Quite on the contrary, thank you very much :).

Well, that was just a quick example I thought of on the spot, not a fragment of a scene I'm working on. I'm just thinking out loud right now, and I'm very glad I stumbled upon this conversation, cause it really got me thinking about what kind of approaches work for dialogue and which do not.

That's what I thought. I suppose the way to do it in dialogue is to use body language, but not TOO much unless the scene is REALLY intense.

I dabble in creative writing and I'm still trying to figure this stuff out. I think that adverbs are scoffed upon because they are often a lazy way of showing instead of telling… Right?

I know that we have a "no spoilers" policy here but could anyone give spoilers about, uh, the quality of the entire season?

Dragon Age: Origins - still stuck in The Fade and I'm not sure if I will ever get out of there. As much as the charming characters and interesting lore pull me in, the quantity-over-quality approach to battles is brutally tedious at times. This seems to me a common problem in RPGs, both Western and Japanese :(.

Last Monday, I finished two classics on one evening. To think that I stopped gaming for few years! Now I'm obsessed again.

When I was 11-years old, the name "Power Rangers: Dino Thunder" gave me a long, hard laugh. Because, let's face it, it sounds like an euphemism for a huge fart.

The most interesting part of the whole thing for me is the video where Adi Shankar talks about why he made it. This guy is quite a character - he's a producer who is also a fanboy and for all his dedication to macho action, he is sort of effeminate and quirky. I really enjoy watching him speak.