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The 2010 Emmy Nominations: Ultimate Geek-Out

by Jamie Block | 12:39 pm, July 8th

This morning, the 2010 Primetime Emmy Award nominations were announced. And while that’s generally exciting for a TV nerd such as myself, this is a system for geeks you’re reading on. So I have embarked on an epic mission: I am going through all the nominations (not just the elitist ones that actually get into the televised awards show), category by category, to provide a full-on geek perspective. The only ones that shall be skipped are those with no good geeky offerings, or the ones where you don’t even know what the name of the category means. In other words, here’s everything that matters to a geeky television viewer.

For reference and your personal knowledge-accumulating pleasure, here is the full list of nominees.

For those of you who care more about which shows prevailed, here is the nomination summary, that just states number of nominations per program without specifying the categories.

I’m going to be going in order through the categories as they appear in the full list linked above so that it’s easy for you to follow along at home. Ready? Let’s begin.

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People Fall Over Worldwide to Bring Back FlashForward [Video]

by Jamie Block | 10:37 am, June 11th

Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks FlashForward deserved another season. Across the world, fans of the series staged a global blackout of their own (the good kind, not the solar storm apocalypse kind) in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Pisa, New York, Atlanta, Seattle, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles. Those California collapsers had the privelege to pass out in front of ABC studios itself in Burbank. What an honor.

It seems unlikely, to put it lightly, that this is going to have any effect at all. Despite being global, it wasn’t on that massive a scale. ABC execs are unlikely to stop and think, “Well, because those scattered few would watch the show if we brought it back, let’s do it.” That’s not to say there isn’t a big enough fan base to merit the show returning. They just didn’t all participate in this weird global protest.

Here’s some expert cinematography documenting the blackout. Hell, these guys could just team up and remake the series themselves. Did someone say, “YouTube spin-off series”?

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Solar Storms Could Devastate Technology, Cause $2 Trillion in Damage. Thanks A Lot, Sun!

by Jamie Block | 1:38 pm, June 10th

Don’t panic or anything, but there just might be the possibility that an upcoming solar storm could devastate out technological infrastructure, causing up to $2 trillion in damages and generally terrifying everyone out of their minds.

There have been past solar storms like those now being predicted, but Earth has always lucked out, escaping the line of fire. But according to CNN, scientists now warn that “the Sun is waking up from a deep slumber.” That can’t be good.

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Essay

Why FlashForward Deserved Another Season More than V

by Jamie Block | 2:44 pm, May 28th


Last night was the series finale of FlashForward, though many people, myself included, hoped the series would be renewed for another season. Meanwhile, ABC’s other sci-fi series with Lost-fan appeal, V, has been signed on to come back. At first glance, this struck me as very much the wrong move, but the Internet is full of evidence defending ABC’s decision, or at least explaining it. Some of it seems founded, some not, and some of it really seems like it should be irrelevant altogether.

The way I see it, this boils down to four categories:

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