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Posted on 13 August 202127 April 2022

The Expanse: A personal distress call

When I first watched The Expanse, I did not get on board right away. The science bits sounded good, but like a Belter from Ceres trying to survive Earth’s gravity, understanding the interconnections in The Expanse was literally crushing me. I needed to find my Rosetta Stone…and not just for the dialects. To kang showxa im wámotim mo …

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Posted on 1 November 202010 May 2022

Every Asteroid and Comet Disaster Movie Ever Made

Earth-threatening asteroids and impacts

I spent part of 2019 digging around for space rocks — that's movies about space rocks — the idea being to compile a list of every asteroid and comet disaster movie ever made, from the very first silent film in 1916, to the massive blockbusters that launch every special effect at us that digital mastery …

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Posted on 30 May 202025 October 2021

Bosch Asks: What’s a Medical Physicist?

Bosch Season 6: Looking pensive as helicopters patrol the sky overhead, Bosch asks: "What's a Medical Physicist?"

Having watched all five seasons of the Amazon police drama Bosch, I was excited to find Season 6 arrive during the lockdown imposed on us due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ten minutes into the first episode and Bosch is called out to the Overlook at Lake Hollywood Park on a murder case. An abandoned 911 …

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Posted on 31 December 201923 April 2022

Dramas about Earth-Threatening Asteroids and Comets

Impact Earth (2015) from the list of every asteroid and comet disaster movie ever made. Earth threatening asteroids and comets.

It's the end of the year and one particular tabloid newspaper is again warning us that it could soon be the end of the world — yes, asteroid 2019 AE3 is in our vicinity and the apocalypse is coming. In keeping with this tabloid drama, below is a link to a list of all the …

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Posted on 18 October 20191 December 2021

Goliath Season 3: The Weird and the Wonderful

Goliath Season 3: The weird and the wonderful. Billy McBride with his wriggly pen.

Amazon TV's Goliath is back for a third instalment and after the two previous diverse offerings, no-one knew what to expect in Season 3. When Billy McBride in Season 1 said, “Ever since I took this case, weird shit is happening to me…”, well, that kind of weird has nothing on this. In 2016, we …

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Posted on 30 June 201920 May 2022

Making an Impact: Lights, Camera and Asteroid!

Impact of asteroid into city scene from film Earth Storm (2006)

More than 100 years have passed since the first film was shown in movie theatres that depicted events surrounding a rock from space making an impact with Earth — although in that case it was a comet rather than an asteroid. That movie, a silent black and white film called The End of the World, …

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Posted on 31 May 201925 October 2021

Goliath Season 2: Cover My Eyes

Goliath Season 2 - Gabriel Ortega.

It has been a while since Amazon's eagerly anticipated Season 2 of Goliath was released. Those who watched the drama unfold might think it has taken so long for me to write a commentary because I needed to get over the shock of what we saw. I admit it, I did have to cover my …

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Posted on 16 May 20199 March 2022

Rewriting characters: The Big Bang Theory

Penny meets Sheldon and Leonard in Rewriting Characters: The Big Bang Theory.

As part of my scriptwriting aspirations, I was interested to understand how a hugely successful TV show knows right from the start what people will watch whilst making content unique. This led me to read drafts and pilot episode scripts of TV shows and I soon realised that those making these shows often don't get …

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Posted on 19 May 201825 October 2021

Goliath Season 1: Rewriting Characters

Rewriting characters and the first season of Goliath

This article looks at Season 1 of Goliath, the Amazon legal drama starring Billy Bob Thornton as underdog lawyer, Billy McBride, who is pitted against the powerful. The discussion compares the third draft pilot script for Goliath Season 1 entitled Trial dated 20 July 2015 and the pilot TV episode entitled Of Mice and Men …

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