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Supernatural (TV series)

Posted in TV, lolcats, science fiction/fantasy, tagged , , , , on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

My rating: ***
Season 4 episode 7: ‘It’s the great pumpkin, Sam Winchester’
Well, while I am on a roll, I thought I might as well continue with this discussion of God, angels and demons and the supernatural and so on and so forth. Perhaps a more lengthy piece on the emergence of a neo-gnostic themes in [...]

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Apparitions (2008) Episode 2

Posted in TV, science fiction/fantasy, tagged , , , , on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

My rating: ***
Spoiler alert
My post on episode one
Episode 2 of Apparitions is perhaps a little less convincing than the first one but what is interesting about it is how it manages to foreground contemporary cultural clichés about good and evil. There are some fairly absurd plot twists concerning the Chief Exorcist of Rome who is [...]

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The Amber Spyglass

Posted in novels, science fiction/fantasy, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

My rating: *
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The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

My review
This book is well written and the story really hooks you in, but I really disliked the philosophy Pullman is pushing. This philosophy seems to be a kind of Nietzschean materialist version of gnosticism (phew!). His is a universe which allows only of one interpretation, [...]

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