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"content": "\u003cp>Has the Bay Area become the crazy cat lady of the West Coast? I’m asking because this Saturday there are not one but TWO feline-centric video festivals being held here — one in Oakland, the other in San Francisco — and both are aiming to be massive celebrations of the Internet’s flagship product, the cat video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Roxie Theater is hosting a cat video festival so big it has intergalactic in the title. Organized by Roxie Theater programmer Mike Keegan and SF Sketchfest’s operations manager Jay Wertzler, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thefirstannual.com/sfiffavffh/program/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cb>First Annual San Francisco Intergalactic Film & Video Feline Festival for Humans\u003c/b>\u003c/a> (SFIFFAVFFH) will consist of 12 hours of cat videos shown on the big screen, the intended medium for many of the pieces being shown at the festival. Broken into three acts, highlighted works from the festival include the world “purr-miere” (their word, not mine) of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/catagentRB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>Cat Agent,\u003c/i>\u003c/a> a series of an animated shorts from Kent Osborne of \u003ci>Adventure Time,\u003c/i> and clips from found footage curators \u003ca href=\"http://watch.everythingisterrible.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Everything Is Terrible,”\u003c/a> credited with bringing \u003ci>So Your Cat Wants A Massage?\u003c/i> to the Internet-using public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnZhi5gaX8g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the Bay in Oakland, the East Bay SPCA will be holding its second annual \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandcatvidfest.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cb>Save a Kitten at OakCatVidFest,\u003c/b>\u003c/a> an event that mixes the Bay Area’s love of cat videos with the desire of its residents to save every lonely kitty living in a shelter. Along with a curated selection of cat videos provided by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2014/internet-cat-video-festival-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minneapolis-based Walker Art Center\u003c/a> and shown on the 100’x100′ Great Wall of Oakland, the festival will include opportunities to adopt homeless kitty kats and create feline-inspired art in its “Cativity” section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(It should be noted that last year’s OakCatVidFest was so popular, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan declared that day to be “Internet Cat Video Day.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the two festivals are technically competing on Saturday — SFIFFAVFFH runs from noon to midnight, while the OakCatVidFest runs from 3 to 10 pm — they share a common feature: Internet celebrity Lil Bub. With over 680,000 friends on Facebook, her own chat and feature-length film, BUB has to be one of, if not thee most popular cat on the Interwebs (though Keyboard Cat and Grumpy Cat might have an issue with that statement.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10135696\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/LilBub3crop.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/LilBub3crop.jpg\" alt=\"Lil Bub\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10135696\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/LilBub3crop.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/LilBub3crop-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/LilBub3crop-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lil Bub \u003ccite>(Facebook.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lil Bub is going to have quite a busy day on Saturday, as her schedule might as well be the same as our president’s when he’s on a Bay Area fundraising trip. She’s the honored guest at the SFIFFAVFFH, where she will receive the festival’s “First Annual Lil BUB Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cat.” She will also be premiering her new video, \u003ci>The BEST of Lil BUB’s Big SHOW,\u003c/i> after which she and her owner will participate in a live Q&A. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the OakCatVidFest, for which she’s this year’s “spokes-cat,” Lil Bub will participating in a meet-and-greet to raise funds for both the East Bay SPCA and her own charity, Lil Bub’s Big Fund for the ASPCA, which benefits cats with special needs. (Lil Bub is a \u003ca href=\"http://lilbub.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> special needs cat herself,\u003c/a> having been born the runt of a litter with several genetic mutations, resulting in her “perma-kitten” appearance.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TJ2IiHmBeM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, if you’re having problems deciding between which festival to attend, don’t let your conscience be the deciding factor. Though the OakCatVidFest has several animal shelters participating in the hope of signing up 100 new foster homes for local kittens, both events are raising funds for their local SPCAs. So keep yourself from commuting on a Saturday (unless you want to) because the most important aspect of these events are the cats themselves. Sure, Internet cat videos are fun and we certainly can’t have enough fun in this town, but for those who truly love cats it should be noted that springtime is “kitten season,” where shelters become overwhelmed with pre-weaned kittens who need around-the-clock attention and care until they are old enough to be adopted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now with that said, on Saturday, you should get yourself to one of these events, enjoy some off-the-wall cat videos and take a moment to tell the Bay Area’s honored guest, “Good Job Bub.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The First Annual San Francisco Intergalactic Film & Video Feline Festival for Humans\u003c/b> runs at the Roxie Theater on Saturday, May 10, 2014, beginning at noon. Tickets are $12, $30 for an all-day pass. \u003ca href=\"http://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/first-annual-san-francisco-intergalactic-feline-film-video-festival-humans/?instance_id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> For tickets and more information,\u003c/a> visit www.thefirstannual.com/sfiffavffh/.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The second annual Save A Kitten OakCatVidFest\u003c/b> will be held on Saturday, May 10, 2014, from 3-10 pm at the Great Wall of Oakland. Tickets start at $10 for adults. \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandcatvidfest.com/#tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> For tickets and more information,\u003c/a> visit www.oaklandcatvidfest.com/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/05/02/24-is-back-but-are-we-grasping-for-something-well-never-get-again/attachment/24/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12009\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12009\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/24.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Fox\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/24.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/24-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Fox\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Victor Beigelman\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack is back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 5th, one of TV’s most beloved characters, Jack Bauer, will return to action in \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">24: Live Another Day\u003c/span>, a 12 episode mini-series event following the same real-time format as the first eight seasons of the show, with periodic jumps forward in the day between episodes. On paper, this is great. Fans of the show get to reunite with their hero and undoubtedly watch him shoot, scream, defy order, survive unimaginable torture, and everything else Jack Bauer stands for. But to what extent is our excitement for this rooted in a nostalgia for something that’s already seen its best days? Are we getting our hopes up for something that’s doomed to yield diminishing returns? If that’s the case, do we really want to \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Live Another Day\u003c/span> at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t get me wrong. I loved \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">24\u003c/span>. Although its formula became stale by the final season, the show always excelled at action-packed sequences, shocking twists, and how-did-he-do-it heroic victories that came with a serious toll. Jack was a tragic hero in the strongest sense of the term, and the ensemble around him was packed with great characters. No doubt,\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\"> 24\u003c/span> was a hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s important to emphasize, though, is that I\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\"> loved\u003c/span> the show\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">.\u003c/span> Loved. Past tense. It’s gratifying to fondly recall Jack Bauer as an iconic figure of the post-9/11 aughts, as with any happy memory. But when you have a positive, yet removed lasting image of something in your head, it’s strange to bring it back into your life and expect things to be the same. Jack might be coming back, and the core aspects of his world might be relatively constant, but we as viewers have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the entertainment industry’s increasingly sequel-happy nature, it makes sense to view TV show comebacks with skepticism -- there’s a proven track record of brewing anticipation at a story or character’s return followed immediately by disappointment. Just look what happened with \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Arrested Development\u003c/span>’s return on Netflix last year. The show was brought back on the sheer volume of enthusiasm from its dedicated and growing fan base, thanks to post-mortem DVD sales and Netflix binges. However, its “triumphant return,” once digested, didn’t go down smooth at all. What’s more, \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">AD\u003c/span> was a show that was axed well before its time. What chance does \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">24\u003c/span> have of a successful return if its original premise had grown stale by the end of its initial run?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no question that money plays a big role in bringing shows and movies back; when profits are involved, its hard to let a smash hit just sit peacefully in its grave. But when all the creative juices around a story have run dry, it’s almost a disservice to the characters and original product to bring it back in any lesser form. Our intense desire to relive the glory days as viewers only enables that trend. Simply put, we’re bringing disappointment onto ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another more recent example, this one in film, was the return of Ron Burgundy and the channel 4 news team in \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues\u003c/span> last December. A look at the sequel’s \u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=abb0eb8fd34d461e988095c26f80feec&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.rottentomatoes.com%2fm%2fanchorman_2_the_legend_continues%2f\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">Rotten Tomatoes score\u003c/span>\u003c/a> relative to the original -- 75% to 66% -- tells you that it’s a better movie than the original, but these are just numbers. The reality is that, as nice as it was to revisit these characters, the same formula just didn’t have the same punch as it did back in 2004. We expected the same slew of quotable one-liners, but instead we left the theater generally dissatisfied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Granted, there are instances of TV shows (and film sequels) coming back after long gaps in time to match or exceed the brilliance of their original source material (\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Family Guy\u003c/span> and \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Toy Story 3\u003c/span> to name a couple), but they’re very clearly the exception rather than the rule. As viewers, we’ve come to form a habit of missing what we don’t have, and demanding a way to bring it back only to inevitably discover the missing piece doesn’t fit that hole in our lives anymore. It’s sad, but true: we’re grasping for something we’ll never quite get back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This phenomenon is not surprising -- it’s really just a projection of typical human nature onto the landscape of the entertainment industry. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the entertainment industry’s increasingly sequel-happy nature, it makes sense to view TV show comebacks with skepticism -- there’s a proven track record of brewing anticipation at a story or character’s return followed immediately by disappointment. Just look what happened with \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Arrested Development\u003c/span>’s return on Netflix last year. The show was brought back on the sheer volume of enthusiasm from its dedicated and growing fan base, thanks to post-mortem DVD sales and Netflix binges. However, its “triumphant return,” once digested, didn’t go down smooth at all. What’s more, \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">AD\u003c/span> was a show that was axed well before its time. What chance does \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">24\u003c/span> have of a successful return if its original premise had grown stale by the end of its initial run?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no question that money plays a big role in bringing shows and movies back; when profits are involved, its hard to let a smash hit just sit peacefully in its grave. But when all the creative juices around a story have run dry, it’s almost a disservice to the characters and original product to bring it back in any lesser form. Our intense desire to relive the glory days as viewers only enables that trend. Simply put, we’re bringing disappointment onto ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another more recent example, this one in film, was the return of Ron Burgundy and the channel 4 news team in \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues\u003c/span> last December. A look at the sequel’s \u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=abb0eb8fd34d461e988095c26f80feec&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.rottentomatoes.com%2fm%2fanchorman_2_the_legend_continues%2f\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">Rotten Tomatoes score\u003c/span>\u003c/a> relative to the original -- 75% to 66% -- tells you that it’s a better movie than the original, but these are just numbers. The reality is that, as nice as it was to revisit these characters, the same formula just didn’t have the same punch as it did back in 2004. We expected the same slew of quotable one-liners, but instead we left the theater generally dissatisfied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Granted, there are instances of TV shows (and film sequels) coming back after long gaps in time to match or exceed the brilliance of their original source material (\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Family Guy\u003c/span> and \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Toy Story 3\u003c/span> to name a couple), but they’re very clearly the exception rather than the rule. As viewers, we’ve come to form a habit of missing what we don’t have, and demanding a way to bring it back only to inevitably discover the missing piece doesn’t fit that hole in our lives anymore. It’s sad, but true: we’re grasping for something we’ll never quite get back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This phenomenon is not surprising -- it’s really just a projection of typical human nature onto the landscape of the entertainment industry. We want what we can’t have, and we’re prone to playing a high-risk, high-reward game. If these comebacks could just work out, it would be the best feeling in the world. But much more often than not, they don’t. In reality, it’s best to let favorites and absolute classics lay where they are, and not potentially tarnish their image by forcing a shell of their former selves back to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So although I’m excited to see Jack back in my life next week, I’m welcoming him with a fair share of guarded skepticism. Of course I care about him, and I know he cares about me (I am an American, after all). But if it’s just a generic re-hash of the world we shared the first time around, I honestly don’t want any part of it. Neither should you.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/04/29/felicitys-ben-or-noel-conundrum-how-the-side-you-took-predicted-your-entire-love-life/felicity-porter/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11954\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11954\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/felicity-porter.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: The WB\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/felicity-porter.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/felicity-porter-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: The WB\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Meghan Lewit\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a rather famous deleted scene from the film \u003cem>Pulp Fiction\u003c/em> in which Mia Wallace quizzes hit-man Vincent Vega on whether he's a Beatles man or an Elvis man, whether he prefers The Brady Bunch or The Partridge Family, and other character-defining questions. “My theory is that, when it comes to important subjects, there's only two ways a person can answer. Which way they choose tells you who that person is,” she states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve always found this to be a profoundly wise observation. My own cultural litmus test revolves around the love triangle at the heart of the late '90s college drama \u003cem>Felicity\u003c/em>. Or, more specifically, Ben or Noel?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show, which first aired on the now-defunct WB network in 1998, starred Keri Russell (currently kicking ass on \u003cem>The Americans\u003c/em>) as a good girl who thwarts her parents' expectations by following her high school crush to college in New York City. (Also worth noting, \u003cem>Felicity\u003c/em> was the first foray into television for a then-unfamous J.J. Abrams.) The show became a watershed cultural moment for me -- partly because I was, at the time, at home in Illinois plotting my own escape to an East Coast university, but mainly because \u003cem>Felicity\u003c/em> cemented my attitude toward romance for my entire adult life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As heroines go, Felicity wasn’t particularly cool. She studied a lot, clothed herself in an unending parade of giant fuzzy sweaters, and recorded long, embarrassingly earnest messages to her absent friend Sally on a voice recorder. For a smart girl, she made the dubious choice to follow an 18-year-old boy across the country. But viewers who saw themselves in Felicity understood that the move to New York was about much more than a guy -- it was about making a brash stab at independence, about carving out a place in the world where her uncoolness and her romanticism and penchant for oversized wool could flourish. In her insane, ill-considered moment of bravery, Felicity became the patron saint of nice girls who got good grades, followed the rules and more or less listened to their parents, and sometimes wondered what the hell it was all for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the halls of the fictional University of New York, she found love in the form of two appealingly floppy-haired choices: Ben Covington (Scott Speedman), the mumbly, emotionally inscrutable crush she followed to college; and Noel Crane (Scott Foley), the charmingly geeky, nice-guy resident advisor. Although the Felicity love triangle came along before fans identifying themselves as “Team X” or “Team Y” had entered the vernacular, the Ben vs. Noel question became the basis of a four-season love triangle, the outcome of which can still spark heated debate among those who came of age at the turn of the millennium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Felicity Porter felt like my fictional spirit sister back in 1998, so her love life has provided the framework of a theory that has guided my beliefs about romance for the past 16 years: that every straight woman in the world is either a Ben-girl or Noel-girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noel established his good-guy cred early in the show when he became Felicity's confidante and Boggle partner. In the pilot, when Felicity is close to throwing in the towel on her New York adventure, he makes an endearing plea for her to stay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 284px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/04/29/felicitys-ben-or-noel-conundrum-how-the-side-you-took-predicted-your-entire-love-life/felicity/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11970\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11970\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/FAN-noel-and-felicity-6985617-355-500.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: FanPop\" width=\"284\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/noel-and-felicity/images/6985617/title/fan-photo\">FanPop\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You'll be the fancy doctor, with the fancy practice. You’ll be married and you’ll have like four phone lines in your home. And then, boom, it’ll grip you like a blast of freezing cold air. You know, ‘what the hell is my life?’ And you’ll be able to trace it back to this instant...when that geek RA gave you [these] words of advice: stay in New York or perish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From that moment we knew that Noel understood her particular brand of romantic idealism, and that he would have her back. And throughout their first season courtship and over the course of the show (with the exception of an out-of-character quickie marriage and divorce to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haMghffhJes\">the Doritos Girl\u003c/a> in season 3), he remained a steadfast presence in her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Noel/Ben choice reached its most dramatic climax fairly early in the show’s run, at the end of the first season when Felicity has to choose between spending her summer break in Germany with Noel, or on a cross-country road trip with Ben. The season ends on a cliffhanger with Felicity -- in slow motion of course -- getting into a cab en route to an undisclosed destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t have to make a decision between Ben and Noel,” she tells Sally in voiceover. “But I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade and a half later, it’s not a spoiler to report that she chose Ben, and that in season 2, just a couple of episodes into their nascent romance, he broke her heart. This event launched the infamous hair chop, and a series of forgettable romances with randoms until Ben eventually wins her back by tracking down a copy of the movie that had been playing when he stood her up (Charlie Chaplin’s \u003cem>The Gold Rush\u003c/em>). In his most swoon-worthy moment, he describes the film canister as a time machine that would allow them to rewrite their history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 245px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/04/29/felicitys-ben-or-noel-conundrum-how-the-side-you-took-predicted-your-entire-love-life/tumblr_mj26oau8dg1qkjkwao1_250/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11966\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/tumblr_mj26oau8Dg1qkjkwao1_250.gif\" alt=\"Photo: Tumblr\" width=\"245\" height=\"184\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://nickmillerturtleface.tumblr.com/post/44498303958/ben-and-felicity-1x06-looks\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And that was the trick with Ben. He wasn’t a bad guy. He wasn’t cruel or dismissive, although he could often be thoughtless. He was a little too good looking; a person for whom things had always come a little too easily. He was someone we have all known, and probably dated at some point. Even in the midst of their on-and-off coupledom, he remained, on some level, tantalizingly unavailable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want something with me, but you’re not strong enough to have it,” Felicity tells him at the beginning of their relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had a point because in the fourth season -- after Felicity and Ben have graduated and moved to Palo Alto together for grad school -- Ben cheats. This earnest and heartfelt drama then takes a bizarre turn into the supernatural when Felicity’s former roommate, Meghan, casts a spell that allows a devastated Felicity to travel back in time and live out an alternate reality where she chooses Noel instead. The storyline, which is just about as absurd as it sounds, sets off a sequence of events that results in Noel’s tragic death in a fire on campus, but Felicity is ultimately able to make things right by reversing the spell and returning to her life with Ben.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a deeply unsatisfying conclusion to a show that had dealt so thoughtfully with the college experience. At the end, we’re supposed to accept that she made her choice not necessarily because it was the right one, but because choosing Noel would directly lead to his untimely demise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fact that the Ben/Noel question still lingers is a testament to the viability of both characters. Unlike some other notable pop culture love triangles involving young people, Felicity’s choice never felt like a foregone conclusion. (By the end of their runs, was there anyone left who was still hoping that Joey would choose mopey Dawson over Pacey; that Katniss would pick volatile Gale over gentle Peeta; or thought there was a chance that Bella would end up with the werewolf instead of her creepily possessive vampire beau?) Felicity, for all its '90s trappings, holds up as a contemplative and authentic portrayal of the coming-of-age experience and the choices that it presents. The power of the Ben/Noel divide was that neither felt like a plot device, but rather a choice between two valid real-life archetypes: the nice (albeit somewhat predictable) guy who adores you, or the soulful sort-of bad boy you’ll never be quite sure of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also important to note that the choice between Ben and Noel has less to do with the guys themselves than it does with the girl doing the choosing. Each type has its own distinct appeal, perhaps depending on where a woman is in her life. A Ben who seems irresistible at age 20 may feel like more trouble than he’s worth at 30. A friend of mine recently noted that, if she were going to write a memoir of her dating life, she’d title it: \u003cem>Too Many Bens, Not Enough Noels\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although a staunch Noel devotee, when I rewatched the entire show recently, it was easier for me to understand the Ben appeal -- possibly because I’m less self-serious about love now than when I was 17. Still, when I reached the end of the series, I had to conclude that my fundamental preference \u003ca href=\"http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/YolkieFan27/f2.jpg\">hadn’t changed\u003c/a>. While Ben-girls will always crave the challenge and unpredictability, Noel-girls just don’t need that noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may seem like an over-simplification of the vagaries of love and attraction, but some things really are that straightforward. Just like with the Beatles and Elvis, at some point you have to make a choice. You can like both characters -- think they’re both cute, admire their overlapping taste in flannels -- but no one likes them both equally. And the one you choose says everything about you.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the halls of the fictional University of New York, she found love in the form of two appealingly floppy-haired choices: Ben Covington (Scott Speedman), the mumbly, emotionally inscrutable crush she followed to college; and Noel Crane (Scott Foley), the charmingly geeky, nice-guy resident advisor. Although the Felicity love triangle came along before fans identifying themselves as “Team X” or “Team Y” had entered the vernacular, the Ben vs. Noel question became the basis of a four-season love triangle, the outcome of which can still spark heated debate among those who came of age at the turn of the millennium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Felicity Porter felt like my fictional spirit sister back in 1998, so her love life has provided the framework of a theory that has guided my beliefs about romance for the past 16 years: that every straight woman in the world is either a Ben-girl or Noel-girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noel established his good-guy cred early in the show when he became Felicity's confidante and Boggle partner. 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And then, boom, it’ll grip you like a blast of freezing cold air. You know, ‘what the hell is my life?’ And you’ll be able to trace it back to this instant...when that geek RA gave you [these] words of advice: stay in New York or perish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From that moment we knew that Noel understood her particular brand of romantic idealism, and that he would have her back. And throughout their first season courtship and over the course of the show (with the exception of an out-of-character quickie marriage and divorce to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haMghffhJes\">the Doritos Girl\u003c/a> in season 3), he remained a steadfast presence in her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Noel/Ben choice reached its most dramatic climax fairly early in the show’s run, at the end of the first season when Felicity has to choose between spending her summer break in Germany with Noel, or on a cross-country road trip with Ben. The season ends on a cliffhanger with Felicity -- in slow motion of course -- getting into a cab en route to an undisclosed destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t have to make a decision between Ben and Noel,” she tells Sally in voiceover. “But I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade and a half later, it’s not a spoiler to report that she chose Ben, and that in season 2, just a couple of episodes into their nascent romance, he broke her heart. This event launched the infamous hair chop, and a series of forgettable romances with randoms until Ben eventually wins her back by tracking down a copy of the movie that had been playing when he stood her up (Charlie Chaplin’s \u003cem>The Gold Rush\u003c/em>). In his most swoon-worthy moment, he describes the film canister as a time machine that would allow them to rewrite their history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 245px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/04/29/felicitys-ben-or-noel-conundrum-how-the-side-you-took-predicted-your-entire-love-life/tumblr_mj26oau8dg1qkjkwao1_250/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11966\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/tumblr_mj26oau8Dg1qkjkwao1_250.gif\" alt=\"Photo: Tumblr\" width=\"245\" height=\"184\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://nickmillerturtleface.tumblr.com/post/44498303958/ben-and-felicity-1x06-looks\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And that was the trick with Ben. He wasn’t a bad guy. He wasn’t cruel or dismissive, although he could often be thoughtless. He was a little too good looking; a person for whom things had always come a little too easily. He was someone we have all known, and probably dated at some point. Even in the midst of their on-and-off coupledom, he remained, on some level, tantalizingly unavailable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want something with me, but you’re not strong enough to have it,” Felicity tells him at the beginning of their relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had a point because in the fourth season -- after Felicity and Ben have graduated and moved to Palo Alto together for grad school -- Ben cheats. This earnest and heartfelt drama then takes a bizarre turn into the supernatural when Felicity’s former roommate, Meghan, casts a spell that allows a devastated Felicity to travel back in time and live out an alternate reality where she chooses Noel instead. The storyline, which is just about as absurd as it sounds, sets off a sequence of events that results in Noel’s tragic death in a fire on campus, but Felicity is ultimately able to make things right by reversing the spell and returning to her life with Ben.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a deeply unsatisfying conclusion to a show that had dealt so thoughtfully with the college experience. At the end, we’re supposed to accept that she made her choice not necessarily because it was the right one, but because choosing Noel would directly lead to his untimely demise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fact that the Ben/Noel question still lingers is a testament to the viability of both characters. Unlike some other notable pop culture love triangles involving young people, Felicity’s choice never felt like a foregone conclusion. (By the end of their runs, was there anyone left who was still hoping that Joey would choose mopey Dawson over Pacey; that Katniss would pick volatile Gale over gentle Peeta; or thought there was a chance that Bella would end up with the werewolf instead of her creepily possessive vampire beau?) Felicity, for all its '90s trappings, holds up as a contemplative and authentic portrayal of the coming-of-age experience and the choices that it presents. The power of the Ben/Noel divide was that neither felt like a plot device, but rather a choice between two valid real-life archetypes: the nice (albeit somewhat predictable) guy who adores you, or the soulful sort-of bad boy you’ll never be quite sure of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also important to note that the choice between Ben and Noel has less to do with the guys themselves than it does with the girl doing the choosing. Each type has its own distinct appeal, perhaps depending on where a woman is in her life. 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If someone gets too overbearing about how important it is that I see a movie or listen to an album, I tend to snub it out of sheer, passive-aggressive spite. (I'm sure the latest Arcade Fire album is deeply wounded by my indifference.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond that, who has the time? Looking at TV alone, the current roster of consensus must-watch shows includes \u003cem>True Detective\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Justified\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Orange is the New Black\u003c/em>,\u003cem> Homeland\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Hannibal\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Walking Dead\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Scandal\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Sherlock\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Girls, House of Cards\u003c/em> and probably a dozen more. For anyone with a job, a family and/or an active social life, that's a staggering order. No matter how high the quality is, not many people have the free time to pack an extra 10 hours or so of required entertainment into their weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older folks decry the loss of communal entertainment, that bygone era when you knew all of your neighbors were watching \u003cem>I Love Lucy\u003c/em> on Monday night and seeing the same movie at the single-screen theater downtown on the weekend. The current overabundance of entertainment options, coupled with the ascendance of social media, has somewhat ironically ushered in a new era of communal consumption, albeit a fragmented and specialized one. Pop into your Twitter feed on certain Sunday nights and you're likely wading into dozens of simultaneous \u003cem>Mad Men \u003c/em>live tweets. If you can't make it out to that big music festival, you can rest assured that all your friends will be posting envy-inspiring pics all day long. 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You can watch only what's available on your streaming service of choice, or focus solely on your local music scene, or set up viewing parties with your friends and agree not to watch anything until you're all together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To borrow a phrase, the key to this whole conundrum might be learning to accept the things one cannot change. There's always going to be a Hot New Thing that I \u003cem>have \u003c/em>to experience. This winter it was \u003cem>True Detective\u003c/em>. By fall, it'll be something else entirely. Some of those things I'll get around to, some of them I won't. In the meantime, I'm going to be left out of a lot of conversations I might once have dominated. As much as that stings, I suppose I can take some solace in my otherwise fulfilling, well-rounded daily existence. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/04/10/i-learned-everything-i-need-to-know-from-the-muppets/muppets-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11806\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11806\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/muppets-2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Jay Buchsbaum/Muppets Studio LLC \" width=\"640\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/muppets-2.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/muppets-2-400x252.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Jay Buchsbaum/Muppets Studio LLC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jenn Zipp\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, I found myself shoving and elbowing past children to get to the front of the ticket line on \u003cem>Muppets Most Wanted\u003c/em>'s opening weekend. I stopped to wonder, \"Even as a 31-year-old woman, why do I have this weird affinity for the Muppets?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every time I see Kermit on the big screen or Elmo doing interviews on daytime TV, it's like I'm seeing someone from my small town make it big. Like many kids, I grew up watching Jim Henson-created kid shows, such as \u003cem>Sesame Street\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Fraggle Rock\u003c/em>. And as I got older, I caught on to more of the jokes and pop culture references on \u003cem>The Muppet Show\u003c/em> reruns and \u003cem>Muppets Tonight\u003c/em>. It was as if those furry little guys were growing up with me!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while so many female Millennials compare themselves to Lena Dunham or ask \"What would Carrie Bradshaw do?,\" I find myself relying on the life lessons I've learned through watching the Muppets. 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I always thought it was so sad that Outer Space was only a mouse hole away, yet the Fraggles were always too caught up with their every day lives of radish-stealing, sock darning, and \u003ca href=\"http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Doozer_sticks\">doozer stick\u003c/a> eating to explore the Silly Creature culture that fascinated them. So whenever I'm faced with an opportunity to travel, I take it. No matter how scared I might be of the unknown, the thought of wondering what I might miss is scarier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get Control of Your \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Eat-\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>motions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/9PnbKL3wuH4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Part of being a functional adult is learning how to recognize the difference between your wants and your needs, and not giving into every single indulgent urge you might have. I love to eat and often use food as a crutch. Usually, this particular type of binge eating comes with emotion, or as I like to call it, \u003cem>Eat\u003c/em>-motion. There are two Muppets that are cut from the same cloth: Cookie Monster and Animal. I've seen both these guys eat everything from cookies and drum kits to hubcaps and glass, and both have moved on from their binging: Cookie Monster has been put on a strict diet of vegetables and, in the last Muppets movie, Animal was put in an anger management program where his new mantra was \"No drums, no drums. Jack Black said no drums.\" Taking a cue from these two, I try to resist the temptation of a super carnitas burrito every time I walk by a taqueria. Looks like we're all growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Karate Chop Your Frog If He's Just Not That Into You\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/TZRB6dLIdG8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Matters of the heart become more and more complicated when you’re an adult. The older you get, the more you’re willing to overlook character flaws in your S.O. out of fear that you’ll wind up alone and/or eaten by your cats. But watching Miss Piggy over the years has helped me realize that, even though loyalty is an admirable virtue, not having a backbone leads to a whole lot of heartache. I mean, the whole cat and mouse thing (or pig and frog thing, in this case) has gone on for decades now. Miss Piggy wants a commitment, Kermit isn't sure, Piggy runs away, Kermie finds her and says he misses her, she caves... Miss Piggy, girl, you are a well-dressed, well-fed piece of swine. You could get any pig or frog or farm animal of your choosing. Stop wasting your time on a banjo-playing commitment-phobic amphibian. If your man won’t commit, then it’s time to look for someone who will (like the captain from \u003cem>Pigs in Space\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hoarding Leads to Misery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/mUXojQ_nhD4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Oscar the Grouch was initially brought onto \u003cem>Sesame Street\u003c/em> to mock bad attitudes. Instead, he instilled a fear in me that, if I didn't literally clean up my act, I would be teetering on hoarder status and become a miserable person as a result. Oscar was the definition of a hoarder, going as far as collecting living things, like Slimey, his pet worm, and Fluffy, his pet elephant. (I can only imagine what kind of pet skeletons he has down there.) Whenever I have a sink full of dishes, I remind myself that I'm only a dirty tupperware away from being a furry homeless Muppet that calls a trash can a home. Your attitude is highly reflective of your surroundings, so the tidier the environment, the happier the disposition. Take notes, Oscar, take notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Odder The Couple, The Better\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/E3yJOltPJ8U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>When we seek relationships with other people, we sometimes focus so much on the similarities that we forget it's sometimes better to find someone that complements your personality rather than someone who matches it identically. A great example would be the odd couple of \u003cem>Sesame Street\u003c/em>, Bert and Ernie. Longtime friends/roommates, Bert and Ernie are vastly different from one another. Bert likes to read, watch pigeons, eat oatmeal and collect bottle caps. Ernie invites sheep over for late night dance parties, likes taking baths with his rubber duckie, and playing drums.They couldn't be more different, but they've made it work by teaching each other about sharing, how to fish, and why eating cookies in bed is a bad idea. It's all about acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Work Hard, Play Hard\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/1abGUL626yo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>My mom would like to take credit for instilling my strong work ethic, that no-nonsense, “do whatever it takes to get the job done” sensibility that makes me a likely candidate for any job. 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Sometimes it's hard to remember to take life as it comes and enjoy the little moments. Whether it's soaking up some piano blues or a good snooze, Rowlf the dog seemed to know how to take things in stride. Rarely caught up in the drama and hype, Rowlf often provided a calmer perspective and a laid back approach to life's ailments. \"I finish work, I go home, read a book, have a couple of beers, take myself out for a walk and go to bed.\" He really follows the Matthew McConaughey approach to life and \u003ca href=\"http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/matthew-mcconaughey-tells-teens-just-keep-livin\">just keeps livin'\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don't Be Afraid to Call Your Own Shots\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/_qfuWJzo82k\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Just because you’re an adult doesn’t mean that you can’t have role models. 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I've seen both these guys eat everything from cookies and drum kits to hubcaps and glass, and both have moved on from their binging: Cookie Monster has been put on a strict diet of vegetables and, in the last Muppets movie, Animal was put in an anger management program where his new mantra was \"No drums, no drums. Jack Black said no drums.\" Taking a cue from these two, I try to resist the temptation of a super carnitas burrito every time I walk by a taqueria. Looks like we're all growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Karate Chop Your Frog If He's Just Not That Into You\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/TZRB6dLIdG8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Matters of the heart become more and more complicated when you’re an adult. The older you get, the more you’re willing to overlook character flaws in your S.O. out of fear that you’ll wind up alone and/or eaten by your cats. But watching Miss Piggy over the years has helped me realize that, even though loyalty is an admirable virtue, not having a backbone leads to a whole lot of heartache. I mean, the whole cat and mouse thing (or pig and frog thing, in this case) has gone on for decades now. Miss Piggy wants a commitment, Kermit isn't sure, Piggy runs away, Kermie finds her and says he misses her, she caves... Miss Piggy, girl, you are a well-dressed, well-fed piece of swine. You could get any pig or frog or farm animal of your choosing. Stop wasting your time on a banjo-playing commitment-phobic amphibian. 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Whenever I have a sink full of dishes, I remind myself that I'm only a dirty tupperware away from being a furry homeless Muppet that calls a trash can a home. Your attitude is highly reflective of your surroundings, so the tidier the environment, the happier the disposition. Take notes, Oscar, take notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Odder The Couple, The Better\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/E3yJOltPJ8U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>When we seek relationships with other people, we sometimes focus so much on the similarities that we forget it's sometimes better to find someone that complements your personality rather than someone who matches it identically. A great example would be the odd couple of \u003cem>Sesame Street\u003c/em>, Bert and Ernie. 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The story is well thought out and the details and continuity are perfect -- like if \u003cem>Lost \u003c/em>had lived up to the hype. Sure, the grass is sometimes a bit too mowed and the girls don't appear to have hairy legs or armpits (no one would have time to shave in the apocalypse, guys), but we'll overlook that. Get over the hump and watch this show so we can start talking about it!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Are You The One?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/U0l0pClT5vE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Yes, this a highly contrived relationship reality show on MTV. Yes, it is set in Hawaii and involves enough alcohol to get the college-aged participants kicked out of school, if they were the types to go to college, which they are not. But look, you aren't going to watch every cheesy show MTV puts out. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/03/31/live-television-vs-binge-watching-what-does-the-future-hold-for-network-tv-pretty-little-liars/old-tv/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11715\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11715\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/old-tv.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Getty Images\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/old-tv.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/old-tv-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I hate to bring up \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/09/12/fixing-your-dating-life-with-pretty-little-liars/\">\u003cem>Pretty Little Liars\u003c/em> again\u003c/a> (just kidding, I don’t hate it at all, but you might). 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Sure, there are recaps, but I felt completely disconnected to the four girls’ emotional states. Who were they really in love with now? Who were they kind of mad at and why? Who did they trust at this moment and who was up to something shady? In a way, following a TV show is like having a long distance relationship; your partner has to check in regularly and have a consistent personality. But for this show (and many others), the plot is too shifting and complex and the characters are too inconsistent and fickle for the show to disappear for so long in the middle of a season, which supposedly has some sort of arc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">I'm not alone in this feeling. Numerous friends have lost interest in equally gripping shows during mid-season breaks: \u003cem>Nashville\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Scandal\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Glee\u003c/em>, etc. \u003ca href=\"http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2012/04/tv-hiatus-explained-why-your-favorite-shows-take-breaks-during-the-season.html\">There are plenty of legitimate reasons\u003c/a> why shows go on hiatus during the middle of a season (presidential debates, huge sports events like the Olympics, holidays, and more internal things like labor contracts for writers and actors). But one of the major reasons that there are breaks is because networks prefer to not air a show if the timing might affect their ratings (because viewers are doing things like spending time with their families during winter break) or this thing called \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_ratings#Sweeps\">sweep\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_ratings#Sweeps\">s\u003c/a>, in which Nielsen does intensive viewer diaries every quarter that will affect overall ratings. Networks stretch out their seasons so that episodes can fall during those months of sweeps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This makes sense; a TV show won’t live on if its ratings aren’t decent, but it seems that altering a TV schedule to get better ratings harms a viewer’s personal connection to the characters. Apparently, overall ratings aren’t hurt by the breaks (again, \u003cem>Pretty Little Liars\u003c/em> was the most tweeted about show of the year), but with the rise of original streaming programming from Netflix and Hulu, we’re seeing that binge watching is changing the way that we enjoy TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">To figure out how being able to stream a whole season of your favorite show affects viewing habits, Netflix employed cultural anthropologist \u003ca href=\"http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/binge-watching/52b1ca4bfe34440d780001e5\">Grant McCracken to study and interview viewers while they binged on television\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/02/when-exactly-does-watching-a-lot-of-netflix-become-a-binge/283844/\">The definition of binge watching differs\u003c/a>, but McCracken defines it as watching two to three episodes per night and finishing a season in a week. With this kind of approach, watching television became more deliberate, \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/02/13/slate_surveymonkey_binge_watching_poll_how_do_people_gorge_on_tv.html\">more focused\u003c/a>, and a more contemplative activity. Instead of surfing channels out of boredom, binge watchers develop a more critical point of view. Now, I’m not necessarily saying that \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/magazine/24TV.html?_r=0\">watching a lot of TV at once is going to make us smarter\u003c/a>, but the form of dropping a whole season at once allows shows to be more coherent, cinematic, and meaningful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Network television might be set in its ways, but, if history is any indication, that won't be enough to stop a business model shake-up. Take the serialization of Charles Dickens’ \u003cem>Tale of Two Cities\u003c/em>, for example.\u003cem> \u003c/em>Installments of the novel appeared each week in a journal and readers had to wait to find out what happened. The serial novel was popular in those days for many reasons including low literacy rates (people paid others to read the chapters out loud to them) and the fact that it was cheaper to pay a little each week instead of paying up front for a whole novel. \u003cem>Tale of Two Cities\u003c/em> was so popular that, towards the end of the novel, the public waited impatiently at the dock for the journal to be delivered from the publisher. There were even reports that people jumped into the water to swim to the ships that were carrying the final chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Whether people really endangered their lives in order to be the first to read the end of a story or whether my high school English teacher, who first told me the legend, was just trying to get us to care about reading, the style of reading eventually changed. Now that literacy has grown and consumerism has taken on its current form, we rarely see serials, which have been very clearly replaced by novels (except a few exceptions by horror novelists \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Mile_(novel)\">Stephen King\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.randomhouse.com/features/blackstone/\">John Saul\u003c/a>). We can read a whole novel at whatever pace we choose. We are not at the mercy of the next shipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change in TV is similar to the change in book publishing. Watching live TV is like waiting for that boat. Sometimes we wish we could jump in so we can get there first, but we have little control over when it will arrive. But binge watching a show is like reading a whole novel in one sitting. It allows us to get caught up and lost in a world without interruption. For the creators of television (writers, directors, actors), this is a huge advantage as well as a challenge to be better. It allows their work to open up to a larger scope and vision; it allows it to be experienced as something continuous. It also demands that a show be completely consistent and seamless, which leads to a better representation of reality with truer characters. \"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts,\" Dickens wrote in \u003cem>Oliver Twist\u003c/em>. With streaming TV, there is less focus on an engrossing pilot and a cliff-hanging finale like those books. Viewers are hooked for the whole journey.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Sure, there are recaps, but I felt completely disconnected to the four girls’ emotional states. Who were they really in love with now? Who were they kind of mad at and why? Who did they trust at this moment and who was up to something shady? In a way, following a TV show is like having a long distance relationship; your partner has to check in regularly and have a consistent personality. But for this show (and many others), the plot is too shifting and complex and the characters are too inconsistent and fickle for the show to disappear for so long in the middle of a season, which supposedly has some sort of arc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">I'm not alone in this feeling. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/03/28/the-most-beloved-and-reviled-television-series-finales-how-i-met-your-mother-best-worst/how-i-met-your-mother/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11704\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11704\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/how-i-met-your-mother.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: CBS\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/how-i-met-your-mother.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/how-i-met-your-mother-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: CBS\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As \u003cem>How I Met Your Mother\u003c/em> comes to an end on Monday night, the circle of life in television is again complete. 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For the last decade, action-packed edutainment like History Channel's \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.com/shows/the-universe/videos/universe-end-of-the-earth-deep-space-threats-to-our-planet\">\u003cem>The Universe: End of Earth\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSUEOXEdHIw\">\u003cem>Sex In Space\u003c/em>\u003c/a> have narrativized our dangerous and erotic existence. Tyson's \u003cem>Cosmos\u003c/em> struggles to find an identity separate from those tropes while still entertaining viewers. It's hard for me to fairly compare the awe I felt watching the original series as a very young kid, and the near-permanent state of eye rolling I experienced during the first episode. The second episode was much better. But it left me wondering: Can Neil deGrasse Tyson be the Carl Sagan for our times?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or maybe a better question is: Does anyone remember Carl Sagan? In case you don't, here's a quick run-down. Carl Sagan was an accomplished astronomer, and a professor at Cornell. He was also one of the greatest communicators of science in the modern era. Sagan pioneered the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence in a time when E.T. communication was a given; all we had to do was pick up the phone. His groundbreaking \u003cem>Cosmos\u003c/em> series, which broadcast on PBS in 1980, explained to the rest of us just how big and crazy and small and hard to fathom everything really is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cosmos\u003c/em> arrived at the start of the cynical Reagan years, but it was a product of the previous era. Scientific progress was sill in ascent, and a New Age zeitgeist permeated our culture. Carl Sagan lived in that era of progress, believing that government policy could be influenced by reason, and that the respectability of scientific fact knew no peer. In those days, the scientific community and much of the public rallied around the greatest threat to life on Earth: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter\" target=\"_blank\">a nuclear winter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson's world is more complicated. The nuclear winter scenario persists, but the likelihood is reduced since the collapse of the Soviet Union and subsequent economic globalization. Now we face multiple connected threats of more ambiguous culpability: industrialization, rising world populations, dwindling natural resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political climate is likewise more complicated. As the \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> noted\u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/17/140217fa_fact_mead\" target=\"_blank\"> in a recent profile\u003c/a>, Tyson served on a commission under George W. Bush, proposed the militarization of Mars, and occasionally buddies up with David Koch, just to keep the funding for exploration and research alive. These are people who have a reputation of being hostile to public funding for scientific research, and any scientific consensus counter to their economic interests. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/science/billionaires-with-big-ideas-are-privatizing-american-science.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> recently reported\u003c/a> that research funding is increasingly private, suggesting conflict of interest issues and favoring of projects designed to support economic goals, as opposed to traditional pursuits of knowledge that support public welfare. In other words, when Tyson's outside his professional demeanor -- on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/neiltyson\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter,\u003c/a> for example -- his left-leaning politics are no secret. But in the workplace, he knows who he's talking to and where the money comes from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consequently, Tyson's \u003cem>Cosmos \u003c/em>reboot is less overtly political. For example, when climate change is addressed, Tyson skirts the issue of responsibility. With a sense of humor and self-awareness, Tyson is a great communicator in his own right. His lectures and writing are peppered with wit, exposing the inaccurate and skewering the absurd. That comfortable cleverness could be quite useful. He has the opportunity to convey a powerful message the way Sagan used space, and by doing so, to become the inspiring, iconic science communicator of our era. So, what could that message be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/CtDMuj4Iq8g\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Around the world, humans are burning coal, gasoline, and rainforest, polluting the atmosphere, raising temperature averages and generally making things inhospitable. We are pushing the world into a new geological epoch, and life, as we know it, is now at risk. Transitions from one epoch to another are often marked by mass extinctions, and signs indicate that may happen again. Can anything be done to stop this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the world's citizens are calling out for greater leadership for this cause. This could be where Tyson steps in. By taking leadership on this issue, Tyson could reframe our experience from temporary to epochal, our existential crises from solitary to collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout his career, Tyson has stood for the superiority of scientific inquiry, in which facts are observable and testable, over other kinds of knowledge. In our current era, science and facts have been hijacked, reframed as political positions in service to economic interests. This undermines the function of science in rational decision making. Toward the end of his 2007 book \u003cem>Death By Black Hole\u003c/em>, Tyson speculates on scientific achievement as a national endeavor. He detects a sublime but mysterious force with \"the power to drive an entire nation to focus its emotional, cultural, and intellectual capital on creating islands of excellence in that world. Those who live in such times often take for granted what they have created, on the blind assumption that things will continue forever as they are, leaving their achievements susceptible to abandonment by the very culture that created it.\" This is happening now. Tyson can use his position on the national stage to push harder for the role of science in policy making, and to remind us that our amazing scientific achievements happen with public and civic support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On our Ship of the Imagination, we travel through time just as we do through space. Our mission: to explore the future. To the north, land ho! On a distant shore rises a thriving metropolis. From the shoreside skyscrapers and bridges to the farmland and wilderness in the hills beyond, it is the monument of civilization, in harmony with the natural world. And to the east, a dark squall looms.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?attachment_id=11592\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11592\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11592\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/count.jpg\" alt=\"count\" width=\"434\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/count.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/count-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/count-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/count-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/count-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/count-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/count-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In elementary school, I went through a phase where I chose my reading material based on how long it was. Enter \u003cem>Little Women\u003c/em>,\u003cem> Gone With the Wind \u003c/em>and, coming in at a mere 1,276 pages, my favorite, \u003cem>The Count of Monte Cristo. \u003c/em>It's a classic tale of revenge, forgiveness, love, happiness and the limitations of human justice, with such perfect lines as, \"Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of Edmond Dantès is inspired by the real life story of François Piçaud, an innocent man denounced as a spy and jailed for seven years. Similar to Edmond, a prison friendship led him to acquiring a great fortune, and upon his release, he sought revenge on those who'd accused him. In Alexandre Dumas's fictionalized version, the innocent Edmond escapes from prison, finds a fortune his dying friend tells him about, feigns the identity of a wealthy count, and sets about the business of a thousand pages worth of revenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, nearly 170 years later, we have the \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2011/12/12/111212crte_television_nussbaum?currentPage=2\">deliciously melodramatic\u003c/a> nighttime soap, \u003cem>Revenge\u003c/em>, loosely based on \u003cem>The Count of Monte Cristo\u003c/em>. The visceral truths about human brutality and the dark appeal of vengeance (especially to a voyeuristic audience) appear somewhat unchanged in the last century. In \u003cem>Revenge\u003c/em>,\u003cem> \u003c/em>Amanda Clarke's father is falsely accused of a crime he didn't commit and dies in prison. Amanda ends up in a series of foster homes and finally juvenile hall, believing her father guilty until she is released and learns the truth: he was set up! What ensues is a very Alexandre Dumas-ian web of vengeance, complete with some familiar twists and turns: new-found wealth to facilitate elaborate revenge plots, a false identity in order to infiltrate the enemy, some time to train the body and mind toward invincibility, and of course an old love to complicate matters and test resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Edmond becomes the Count of Monte Cristo, Amanda Clarke becomes Emily Thorne. In this renaming, they're reborn, which is also a death of sorts, as the priorities of this new person take over who they once were. We know that revenge \u003ca href=\"http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2011/october-11/the-complicated-psychology-of-revenge.html\">doesn't actually bring the satisfaction it promises \u003c/a>for so many different reasons, and yet, of course, we want Emily and Edmond to get it. There's something practically primal about this hope. Mostly, though, revenge illuminates the impossibility of the closure and fairness it seeks to find, a central theme of \u003cem>The Count of Monte Cristo \u003c/em>and a truth that lends some actual emotion to what might otherwise be a pretty silly show. Emily's main targets are the Graysons, rulers of a corporate oligarchy, whose castle-like home looms over Emily's beach house, and who are most directly responsible for framing her father. But since this is TV, there are many other sub-villains who need to get their comeuppance too. Some juicy romantic distractions, like a \u003ca href=\"http://revengeabc.wikia.com/wiki/Aiden_Mathis\">fellow vigilante \u003c/a>who broods and has an accent, also help delay the final confrontation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?attachment_id=11596\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11596\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11596 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/fighting.jpg\" alt=\"fighting\" width=\"322\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/fighting.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/fighting-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/fighting-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/fighting-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/fighting-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/fighting-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/03/fighting-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\">\u003c/a>Two of my favorite parallels between \u003cem>Revenge\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Count of Monte Cristo\u003c/em> are the false identities and the time pre-revenge spent in secret warrior training, à la the Hero's Journey. In flashbacks, we see Emily escaping from underwater knots, readying herself for the long, demanding journey ahead. She's handy with a gun and has a samurai-like benefactor who warns her away from things such as feelings and emotions. It's gleeful to watch Emily navigate posh fundraisers and cocktail galas with the indifferent poise of an heiress, knowing all the while that she's planning nothing but the worst downfalls for those around her. One moment she's all smiles and pretty dresses and the next she's kicking someone's ass or bankrupting them with a false stock tip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Revenge \u003c/em>is an operatic guilty pleasure for our times, creating a reality full of paranoia, surveillance and terrorism. Planes are downed, corporations act as individuals, hidden cameras are everywhere, no bank account is safe from hackers, no text or email is private, no one is safe. You almost start to feel bad for the Graysons up on the hill, as they sense their every move is being watched, their fortress only partly able to protect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> calls \u003cem>Revenge\u003c/em>,\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/arts/television/revenge-on-abc-places-emily-vancamp-in-the-hamptons.html\">\"\u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em> for this economy.\"\u003c/a> And indeed it does seem that, while many of the rich bad guys of the real world have gone unpunished, the rich bad guys aren't having such an easy time of it in the fictional Hamptons. One by one, Emily finds them and exacts their fitting punishment, crossing their faces out of photos with her red pen once she has. As does Edmond, minus the red pen, plus \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0Hn5JTzw0k\">a sword fight or two.\u003c/a> Both, through their individual vendettas, are responding to the dark forces and villains of their respective eras.\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the pursuit of their single minded goals, both Emily and Edmond inevitably wreak some havoc on the innocent too. This collateral damage begins to bring into question the obsessiveness that is the danger of these thrills, but only momentarily. They pass beside happiness without seeing it. They reject the opportunities that forgiveness and a more whole life might offer them. 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