Firefly was a Masterpiece

seanessay.com My buddy Blair (deceased) was brilliant, and I’d like to guest-post his take on the TV show Firefly…  As for Firefly, you know how some shows only manage to go one season? Or only halfway, until Christmas? Firefly didn’t even make it that far. Which sounds bad, but— copies were soon flying off the […]

Champion to Orphans

essaysbysean.blogspot.com “Orphans make the best recruits.” M to 007, in Skyfall Although commonly disparaged in self-help books, Pollyanna is a nice novel. I enjoyed it as a classic about an impoverished orphan refusing to be defeated. Surely Amy Adams would have played the heroine if any Pollyanna movies been made during Amy’s girlhood: “I think […]

Martian Machine Passing Parthenon

essaysbysean.blogspot.com “Martian Machine Passing Parthenon” Being the title of a photolithograph, from after the War of the Worlds. Prologue Chief Engineer Gordon Malloy of “The Orville” (TV) in Lasting Impressions: “We look at these images of people who lived hundreds of years ago, and they’re so distant looking, that it’s easy to think that they […]

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