Agents of SHIELD 3x03, "A Wanted (Inhu)Man"

[renay]

I was going to skip last week's episode because I've been busy focusing on Black Wolves but then I was reminded that the show did the thing I really didn't want them to do and I needed to shout about it somewhere. Also, this week was a bunch of moving pieces with a few moments of genuine tension/emotional connection but was otherwise pretty low-key. There was a lot of set up and very little resolution as the season gets ready to launch into the first glimpse at what I assume will be the bad guy for at least the first ten episodes. ( Read more... )

Review: Time Salvager: Tell Don't Show, Silence Your Women, Get Nowhere Fast

[justira]

Wesley Chu's Time Salvager has a serious tell-don't-show problem, and the biggest disservice that results from it is to the female characters. I have to admit I was not as excited about this book as a lot of other people were, but that's solely because I read the preview chapter available online and realized that the writing was terrible. It's clunky, it's sterile, and it's just not worth reading.

But let's talk about what the real problem of the book was for me. Well, two of them, intertwined. One, and the lesser transgression, is the lack of editing — and I can barely bring myself to call this the lesser of the two evils, as I'm an editor and hold that a good edit can work wonders for a manuscript. Those are wonders Time Salvager sorely needed. But that's only one problem. The other, which a good edit may have indeed fixed, is that Time Salvager silences its women. Some vague spoilers follow.

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