Bored Now (Doppelgangland)

Doppelgangland is a very good episode. There’s a version of this essay that is nothing but that sentence over and over again, phrased in different ways. It’s a nearly self-evident truth – this episode is uncontroversially and near-universally beloved. IMDB’s ranking has it as the best episode of Season Three, and 8th overall. It’s regularlyContinue reading “Bored Now (Doppelgangland)”

The Big Bad Is Back (Lovers Walk)

It’s April 2004; the sunset days of Web 1.0. A new website has just been created: a cross-media wiki known as TVTropes. It’s a site for fans of all manner to identify and record common storytelling conventions as they recur throughout different pieces of media, and it will grow to become a dominant knowledge-base forContinue reading “The Big Bad Is Back (Lovers Walk)”