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	<title>SmartRemarks &#187; Science Fiction</title>
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		<title>The last of Lost</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/05/the-last-of-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 10:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up front: I liked it.
Sunday&#8217;s final episode of Lost, that is&#8230; a show I&#8217;ve been watching with fascination for five years now. (No, not six&#8230; I missed S1 when it aired, but got hooked by the DVDs.)
That&#8217;s not to say that I found it completely satisfying, especially on an intellectual level. But clearly the show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two films that do not restore your faith in humanity</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/two-films-that-do-not-restore-your-faith-in-humanity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Side note for my countless loyal fans (well, I haven&#8217;t counted &#8216;em, anyway):  today marks the one-year anniversary of my launch of this blog, and this is the 173rd post I&#8217;ve published in that time. Total cumulative visits to date are nearing 16,000. Not earth-shaking, but not a bad track record, I hope!&#8230;
&#8212;
Anyway. Today&#8217;s topic. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Battlestar Galactica finale</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/08/the-battlestar-galactica-finale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I know that it was broadcast months ago&#8230; but I&#8217;ve been following BSG on DVD, and the second half of season four was just recently released. I watched it over the last week or so, culminating in the extended, nearly three-hour version of the finale just a couple of nights ago.
I discovered my reactions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why am I still a Star Trek fan?</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/why-am-i-still-a-star-trek-fan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 08:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My reaction to the new Star Trek movie led me to ask myself this unavoidable question. Yes, it&#8217;s certainly received a warm response—96% on the Tomatometer (which is phenomenal, even allowing that they inevitably mis-count some reviews like, e.g., the negative J.R. Jones piece I linked the other day) and a $76 million weekend box office—but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Star Trek XI</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/more-on-star-trek-xi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 22:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short version of my previous post:  I really didn&#8217;t like the movie. To me, it not only doesn&#8217;t work as Star Trek, it just doesn&#8217;t work as a movie, period. It has Big Stupid Summer Action Blockbuster in its very cinematic DNA. 
Lots of fans seem to be embracing it, though. Ironically, I could do worse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J.J. Abrams&#8217; Star Trek: boldly going nowhere particularly interesting</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/jj-abrams-star-trek-boldly-going-nowhere-particularly-interesting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 11:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight was the opening of the new Star Trek movie. With IMAX tickets booked well in advance, my girlfriend and I and some friends went out for dinner and conversation, then joined an enthusiastic audience for the long-awaited and much-publicized film. It was a lovely spring evening, and overall we had a good time.
I just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the opposite of jumping the shark?</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/04/whats-the-opposite-of-jumping-the-shark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joss Whedon&#8217;s new TV series Dollhouse got off to an uneven start, as I wrote shortly after the premiere. The show&#8217;s quixotic concept seemed promising but underdeveloped, and the Fox network had reportedly interfered with the show creatively. The first few episodes seemed like a very slow build, focusing on the kind of &#8220;engagement of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four key ingredients of good fiction</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/04/four-key-ingredients-of-good-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my personal opinion, naturally. YMMV. If this were in any way authoritative, it would have been carved in stone by a finger of flame.
But I have been pondering, of late, the sort of things I like to read and watch, and I find myself mulling over some commonalities. There seem to be four recurring [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The toys in Joss Whedon&#8217;s Dollhouse</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/02/the-toys-in-joss-whedons-dollhouse/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/02/the-toys-in-joss-whedons-dollhouse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joss Whedon has a loyal and richly deserved fan following. There aren&#8217;t really a lot of &#8220;household name&#8221; television writers (Aaron Sorkin? Joe Straczynski? Maybe Gene Roddenberry, back in the day?), but he&#8217;s one. His following, built up over years of memorable work on Buffy, Angel, and Firefly, guarantees that any new project he does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost horizons</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/01/lost-horizons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In front of a movie a couple of weeks ago, one of the now-ubiquitous ads to which the captive audience was subjected was for the fifth season premiere of Lost, which aired tonight. I recall thinking that the scope and tone and visual style of the show seemed remarkably well suited to the big screen.
At [...]]]></description>
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