[This is the last of four posts counting down the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica. To see the others, click here.] I’d meant to write my final entry in the “Counting Down Galactica” series before the airing of the finale … Continue reading
[This is the third of four posts counting down the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica. To see the other entries, click here.] Popular guides to the practice of special and visual effects — from the battered library books I pored … Continue reading
[This is the second of four posts counting down the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica. To see the other entries, click here.] I suggested in last week’s Galactica post that viewing the conclusion of a series “live” — that is, … Continue reading
One advantage to serialized narrative of the type I’ve been discussing with my class on TV & New Media this term is the way such stories occasionally align with the flocking of audiences to make a kind of collective reading … Continue reading
Although I frequently share with students my airy notions about online communities being organic things like bonsai trees, growing in unexpected directions but shaped by our collective attentions, I’ve never felt the aptness of the metaphor quite as pointedly as … Continue reading