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Pink Raygun provides interviews, reviews, commentary and articles with a strong emphasis on women working in genre (science fiction/fantasy/horror) entertainment. We provide a smart, saavy yet girly place for fangirls (and boys) to get their geek on!
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Merlin: The Word of the Day is “Starbucked”
By Lisa Fary - Looks like everyone has had it with Uther and his intolerant shenanigans. But first, the starbucking of Morgana. Yes, I’m turning “starbuck” into a verb. ...
The Prisoner: Arrival
By Sonia Aurora - I’ve been a huge fan of The Prisoner, the 1960’s British TV series, for years. My friend introduced me to it, actually, after Fox had debuted VR.5 and Paul mentioned that it had similar overtones to The Prisoner. So I wanted to ...
Defying Gravity: No Love for Geeks in 2052
By Lisa Fary - There will still be comics in 2052. There will also still be beautiful people looking down their noses at people who read them. ...
District 9: They come in peace, We come in capitalism
By Sonia Aurora - I think it’s safe to say that geeks worldwide have been looking forward to the release of District 9. I remember seeing the trailer for the first time a few months ago and thinking, Oh My God, the humans are the villains! I then d...
District 9: What 30 Million Dollars Can Do
By Lisa Fary - I first stumbled across Multi National United online several months ago and poked around with both human and non-human access, my East Coast, liberal elitist self appalled at the oppression and propaganda spurred on by this MNU corpora...
Eureka: If You Build It
By Jeff Nieves - This week’s Eureka was a solid episode. The bulk of the plot (the A-story) revolved around a mysterious device being assembled out of random stolen artifacts. As it turns out, this bizarre contraption was being constructed by the...
Defying Gravity: Vomit Comet
By Lisa Fary - We’re now two for two for zero-g antics. Last week: zero-g sex. This week: zero-g puking. ...
It Came From Late Night Cable: Outlander
By Lisa Fary - Chances are, if there are Vikings on screen, you’re watching a Beowulf adaptation. Even if there’s no one named Beowulf and the hero is a humanoid alien. ...
Eureka: It Ain’t Easy Being Green
By Jeff Nieves - This week on Eureka, the boys (and gals) of Area 51 showed up from their annual bowling match with the Eureka crew. Apparently there’s a bitter feud between the two top secret facilities that’s punctuated by with many pranks and ...
Merlin: The Black Knight
By Lisa Fary - The Black Knight made his appearance in this week’s episode of Merlin, “Excalibur.” Even though he was supposed to be sinister and menacing, I kept hoping he would holler, “I’ll gnaw your bloody leg off!” ...
Defying Gravity: Premiere
By Lisa Fary - Supposedly, Defying Gravity was pitched as “Grey’s Anatomy with astronauts”. I’ve never seen Grey’s Anatomy, so I wouldn’t know how accurate that summation may be; however, ABC’s new sci-fi drama does have all kinds of em...
Warehouse 13: Magnetism and Claudia
By Lisa Fary - Warehouse 13 conflicts with Big Brother on Tuesdays, and in the summertime, I’m Big Brother’s bitch. Maybe if Eddie McClintock showed more skin, I’d be more motivated to watch Warehouse 13 as it airs instead of on DVR or On Deman...
It Came From Late Night Cable: Queen of Blood
By Lisa Fary - A 1966 sci-fi horror with Dennis Hopper and Forrest J. Ackerman? Totally! ...
Drop Dead Diva: The F Word
By Lisa Fary At least Lifetime got the obligatory episode wherein Deb realizes how judgmental the world is out of the way early. It’s a revelation to Prettygirls! like Deb, but for the rest of us, it’s kind of preaching to the choir. We’ve hear...
Eureka: Your Face Or Mine
By Jeff Nieves - After churning out what was, to me, a rather blah episode last week, the writers of Eureka came back with a home run. The moment we’ve all been waiting for (or possibly just me) has finally arrived, Fargo has a love interest! Not...
Merlin: Gates of Avalon
By Lisa Fary - Oh, look. Another evil sorceress. Psych. Not really. That’s the feeling I got from this most recent episode of Merlin, “The Gates of Avalon.” Arthur and Merlin come upon an old man and his daughter, Sophia, being attacked by h...
Movie Review: Moon (2009)
“The Sky is Filled with Stars, Invisible by Day” by Sylvia Bond Whenever Sam Rockwell is in a particular movie, I notice him. Not because he himself is particularly noticeable, but because he is not. Particularly noticeable. In other word...
Lovingly Dissecting the Half Blood Prince
By Wolfen Moondaughter - While perhaps an ideal adaptation of a textual work would have every line and scene portrayed intact, it's not really practical for a variety of reasons. The best we can hope for is that an adaptation will strive to remain tr...
Drop Dead Diva: Premiere
By Lisa Fary - I must be sharing soul-space with a recently deceased sap because I actually enjoyed a show on Lifetime: Television for Women. ...
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
By Teresa Jusino - I’m a “bad geek.” I obsess over TV shows, love comics, go see midnight shows of geeky movies, and can have lengthy conversations about any of it. But I don’t have a good geek’s encyclopedic memory. I’m not good at rem...
Eureka: Welcome Back Carter
By Jeff Nieves - Eureka’s mid-season cliff-hanger left off with Jack Carter being redacted (Eureka-speak for "getting fired"). In “Welcome Back Carter”, the DOD decides that, rather than promoting Jo Lupo or getting a new sheriff, it’s time ...
Merlin: Of Love and Background Checks
By Lisa Fary - I missed last week’s Merlin because I was at my dad’s house, but there wasn’t much to miss. Given the title of the ep was “Lancelot”, I gathered that Lancelot would show up. Whoopdeedoo. Lancelot is only slightly less irritat...
Warehouse 13: Premiere
By Lisa Fary - My hopes for Warehouse 13 were pretty low; so low, I was fully expecting turn it off in the first half-hour with a groan in favor of last week’s episode of The Fashion Show. Surely, Kelly Rowland’s blank gaze would be less idiotic ...
It Came from Late Night Cable: Cemetery Man
By Lisa Fary - I love late night cable and On Demand. The best stuff shows up there. Not “best” like Academy Award Winners; “best” like bizarre, bad, and often poorly acted. The stuff that never quite made cult status, but is campy as hell. ...
Merlin: Brokeback Camelot
By Lisa Fary - I’m wondering if the Merlin team is intentionally trying to foster Merlin/Arthur slash. ...
Virtuality
By Lisa Fary - At some point, I’ll have to find forgiveness in my withered heart for Ron D. Moore. I was so angry about the finale of that show (you know the one), but then Caprica turned out to be so good, and now Virtuality looks like it would be...
Webseries Review: Gavin Lance
By Melissa Voelker - Transferring print media to TV or film can be a tricky business, especially if the source material is a comic book or graphic novel. In some cases it works out well, such as with “Sin City” and “The Dark Knight.” In other...
Merlin: Series Premiere
By Lisa Fary - Thank god for Hulu. Golf ran overtime on NBC this Sunday and my Comcast DVR didn’t compensate for the lost time, cutting off the last ten minutes of Merlin. ...
Review: Impact on ABC
By Lisa Fary - Don’t worry about the moon crashing into the Earth and vaporizing the planet. Kids and family will save us. Perhaps by forming a vortex of annoying, righteous earnestness that will devour the moon’s gravitational threat. Even that...
