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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>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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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to watch television in the digital age</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/06/how-to-watch-television-in-the-digital-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And the mantra became, &#8220;June 12 is the new February 17.&#8221; After all the preliminary publicity, it was somewhat annoying to have the conversion from analog to digital TV broadcasting delayed four extra months. But I can see the logic of doing it after the main television viewing season was over&#8230; and as it happens, [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/04/whats-the-opposite-of-jumping-the-shark/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1206</guid>
		<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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		<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>Now THAT was a press conference</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/02/now-that-was-a-press-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/02/now-that-was-a-press-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1006</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a nice refreshing tingly feeling, isn&#8217;t it, to watch a president who clearly not only understands complex economic concepts, but is even capable of boiling them down into simplified versions for the press? (Even if he&#8217;s occasionally visibly frustrated by the need to do so.) Bush always came across as just barely in command [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bits &#8216;n&#8217; pieces!</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/02/bits-n-pieces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=997</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been far longer than I intended since my last post. Sometimes time just runs away from you. So let me just toss off a few ideas that have crossed my mind in recent days, and get caught up&#8230;
&#8212;
First off:  the wrangling in Washington over the new &#8220;economic stimulus package&#8221; has been interesting to watch. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost horizons</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/01/lost-horizons/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/01/lost-horizons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=948</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fun &#8216;n&#8217; games with home electronics</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/12/fun-n-games-with-home-electronics/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/12/fun-n-games-with-home-electronics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember not long ago I threatened to write about the process of (re)configuring my home theater equipment?
What, you thought I was kidding?&#8230;
What&#8217;s frustrating is this:  my girlfriend and I have a system we&#8217;re perfectly happy with. Nothing terribly high-end, but carefully researched and assembled. DVD players and recorder and a nice surround-sound setup. In particular, [...]]]></description>
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