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by Rick Norwood
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The only other tv in December that provided memorable entertainment was Last Resort, but I can't
really recommend it. It had excellent acting and good scripts, but is totally unbelievable. In any case, it's been cancelled.
In addition to the end of Last Resort, the last Fringe episode airs this month.
SF on TV in January 2013
The Walking Dead and Touch will return in February. Grimm and Revolution return
in March. Beauty and the Beast will also return at some point, despite the fact that nobody likes it.
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Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon. Visit his web site at comicsrevue.com. |
The best tv I've watched in recent months, aside from my on-going one-episode-a-night rewatching
of Babylon 5, is the Doctor Who Christmas Special, "The Snowmen". My vote: not as
good as previous Christmas Specials. For one thing, I'm getting tired of the repeated use of the two-word
phrase "Doctor who?" Once was great. More than once in every season runs the idea into the ground. Also,
in this episode, the Doctor is uncommonly stupid, so much so that viewer will want to yell at him, "Look out,
you idiot!" It will probably be nominated for the Best Drama, Short Form, Hugo Award, but will almost
certainly lose to "Asylum of the Daleks", to which it is a sequel.
Saturday, January 5
 
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