Shortbox Showcase #65 - Defining our TermsIn this episode, Em and Alan are taking one of their common segments, and turning it into an entire episode!
We talk about a range of topics and concepts that arise out of criticism, reviews, and fan culture. It's a throwback episode to the good ol' days of semi-academic, pseudo-intellectual pretension!!!!!!!!!
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Great show, what a fantastic idea, it was brilliant to hear your take on terms filtered through your own experiences and personalities.
ReplyDeleteI’ve not heard of, was it Reviewtainment? Sounds like I shouldn’t bother, it seems those folk were taking themselves a tad seriously.
I have a Film and English Studies degree (loads of schools of critical theory in there), journalism training and decades of experience, but I’m just a reviewer! Please don’t judge my blog too harshly, it’s just off the top of my head nonsense written with the hope of stimulating chat. I am, as all the best people say, not an expert.
What was the six-page spy story you mentioned, Alan?
It doesn’t change a lot of your argument, Em, but It wasn’t Jade who was killed in Green Lantern, it was his live-in girlfriend, Alex. Jade came later, and she really wasn’t his co-star, she was strictly supporting cast.
Thank you, Martin. Reviews and criticism both have their places, and you are one of our favorite reviewers. Just the way you are.
DeleteI do not remember what that story was. I didn't save it, as I didn't realize I would be referencing it years later.
And yes, we got the wrong Kyle Raynor girlfriend. But in our defense, he's had LOTS of girlfriends ...