Category Archives: April A-Z Challenge
S is for… Supernatural and some more #AtoZChallenge
S is for… Supernatural and some more
In a series of posts on Supernatural/Sci-Fi and Fantasy shows it only makes sense to mention the one and only Supernatural. (Please note there may be some slight spoilers below)
Top Reason to love Supernatural – Jensen Ackles – here he is bloopering away.
Two brothers follow in their demon hunting father’s footsteps to battle all manner of demons – they go to hell and back – literally.
Standout episodes – I may have gone a bit overboard and found it hard to stop (no season 8 shown here in the UK yet).
Bloody Mary – Season 1 Episode 5
I could never play this ‘game’ when I was younger – this episode reassured me that I was right to stop at one mention (yup too scaredy cat to even say it twice let alone the fated three).
In My Time of Dying – Season 2 Episode 1
Dean has a scar like mine after a nasty car accident (shock ending of season 1). Jeffrey Dean Morgan suits a hospital bed (as he did as Denny in Grey’s Anatomy).
Ghostfacers – Season 3 Episode 13
Now if reality supernatural TV had Sam and Dean I might watch it.
Lazurus Rising – Season 4 Episode 1
We get introduced to Castiel – enough said.
The Monster at the End of This Book – Season 4 Episode 18
An author has been writing Sam and Dean stories – how?
Changing Channels – Season 5 Episode 8
Stuck in TV shows – reminds me of a game my sister and I used to play with some friends when we were younger.
Abandon All Hope – Season 5 Episode 10
Can’t tell you why this episode stands out but it made me cry
The French Mistake – Season 6 Episode 15
Sam and Dean end up in an alternate universe where they are actors in the show Supernatural – adore Misha (Cas) in this episode and would love for them to do a second episode where the actors end up in the real situation.
Slash Fiction – Season 7 Episode 6
How do you try and stop Sam and Dean – clone them – twice as pretty but too mean.
I also love Supernatural for introducing me to Carry on my Wayward Son by Kansas – used in their ‘The Road so far’ season summaries.
S is a good letter so here’s a quick nod to
The Secret Circle – based on books written by L.J. Smith who also wrote The Vampire Diaries – the series was very different from the books (basic premise and characters only) and they only let us have the one season before cancelling it.
Switch – a UK witchy series from last year – it was all rather fun
Smallville – Teen Superman
Sabrina the Teenage Witch – Sabrina and her talking cat Salem live with two witchy Aunties – more fun.
Are you a Supernatural fan?
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R is for… Radical Rhetoric #AtoZChallenge
R is for… Radical Rhetoric
One of the current drivers in research is that of impact – getting the message out there.
Often when people finish their PhDs they have a nice bound copy of their thesis to put on their bookshelves and a copy gets into the university library. Nowadays that copy may be electronic, but, still the audience for reading a whole thesis is limited – and if they are unlucky your family and friends may be among them.
Next comes conference presentations and publications in academic journals – again potentially a very limited audience.
If it is newsworthy you might get the sensationalised headlines that I mentioned yesterday.
Within social sciences there has been a drive to use more performative methods of dissemination – e.g. using films, poetry, fictional writing, photographs etc.
Because I will be using autoethnography as my methodology, and as a writer, I am keen to present my work more creatively, I am looking into how I can do this to satisfy my examiners as well as myself. There is also the potential of social media to explore.
‘Of all the developments in qualitative inquiry, performative practices are the most radical.’ (Gergen and Gergen, 2011)
This is because of the blurring of art and science – sounds perfect to me.
Here’s a link to an article if you’d like to read any more – http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1595/3105
Gergen, M.M. and Gergen, K.J. (2011) Performative Social Sciences and Psychology. Forum: Qualitative Social Research. 12 (1), Art.11.
Are you interested in research that is happening? How would you like to find out about it?
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R is for… Roswell #AtoZChallenge
R is for… Roswell
Roswell (or Roswell High) 1999-2002 (3 seasons) started just as I left uni and ended as I moved to my second job. Not that I remember the two matching up (so, yes, I have just shared basically irrelevant information).
When I think about it now, there is a similarity between Roswell and Twilight in terms of the action starting when an extra-ordinary boy saves a ‘normal’ girl. In this case the boy is an alien rather than a vampire and the girl a waitress who gets shot.
Three teen aliens go to high school – Max and Isabel Evans and Michael Guerin – Max steps in when Liz Parker gets shot and threatens to expose them all. Later Tess Harding joins in, threatening Liz and Max’s relationship because of their ‘destiny’ to be together.
Instead of looking at top episodes I thought I’d look at the other shows/films I’ve seen the main characters in.
Shiri Appleby (Liz Parker) – E.R., Life Unexpected and Girls
Jason Behr (Max Evans) – seen in nothing since (but he was in Dawson’s Creek and one episode of Buffy before)
Katherine Heigl (Isabel Evans) – Grey’s Anatomy, Life as we know it (plus other films)
Brendan Fehr (Michael Guerin) Bones (Seeley’s brother) (At the same as Roswell – Final Destination and Desert Vampires – films)
Majandra Delfino (Maria DeLuca) – Was in Life as we know it (but have to admit to not making that link).
Nick Wechsler (Kyle Valenti) – Revenge
Colin Hanks (Alex Whitman) – Dexter
Emilie de Ravin – Lost, Once Upon a TIme
And a quick nod to Red Dwarf
Distinctly british humour – as an example here’s my Dwayne Dibley impression:
Do you often find the actors from your favourite shows cropping up in others you like?
Are there certain actors you have started watching shows for – i.e. Just to see them rather than because it is the type of show you would normally watch)?
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