If you've been following along with my Rewatching Smallville series, you know I talk a lot about the actors. Tom Welling's earnestness. Michael Rosenbaum's slow descent into villainy that somehow still breaks your heart. Allison Mack turning a sidekick into a load-bearing character. But every time I sit down to write one of these episode … Continue reading No Tights, No Flights, No Easy Answers: The Creative Minds Behind Smallville
TV History
Stargate: Building a TV Universe from a Single Film
Here's something worth thinking about as Amazon MGM Studios gears up for a brand new Stargate series: a movie that Roger Ebert once called out by name as evidence of cinema at its worst somehow spawned over 15 years of television, 364 episodes across three live-action series, two direct-to-DVD films, and a Guinness World Record. … Continue reading Stargate: Building a TV Universe from a Single Film
