As an avid consumer of media (books, movies, TV shows) I've had many favorite pairings or 'ships, but I never really understood the concept of One True Pairing (OTP) until I met these two: Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Colonel John Sheppard, of Stargate: Atlantis. In brief, this show was a spinoff of Stargate: SG1 which was itself the TV spinoff of the movie Stargate. SGA, as it's … [Read more...] about OTP: Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Colonel John Sheppard of Stargate: Atlantis
Pan Am: Experience Makes the Difference
A few weeks into the 2011 television season, a friend told me I had to watch ABC’s Pan Am. This wasn’t in my plans, as I had no interest in the show. From the ad campaign it seemed similar to The Playboy Club on NBC (which had already been cancelled), and I wasn’t interested in television that took the approach of “we can totes be sexist and it’ll be okay because it was NORMAL … [Read more...] about Pan Am: Experience Makes the Difference