Author Archives: Rach Loveday

TV Show Analysis – Charmed and Neutrality: Why neutral beings in Charmed fail (The Angel of Death)

Charmed (the original series) revolved around three powerful, sister-witches known as the Charmed Ones who use their powers to fight against evil. In fact, Charmed as a whole is about the ongoing cosmic fight between Good and Evil. However life and magic are not completely black and white, there are shades of grey, including in Charmed, in the form of

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Behind the Reviews – Edition #20 (Sando)

Sando premiered on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on 21 March 2018. Sando revolves around titular character, Victoria ‘Sando’ Sandringham who “needs to reconnect with her family to revive her business and find personal redemption. The only problem is they mostly hate her, mostly.” The pilot did a good job of establishing the premise and its characters of a successful

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John Marsden Writing Topic #580

Write a description of someone whose whole life is controlled by TV ads.** Lucky Numbers Lisa had a busy day today. She miraculously managed to get herself life insurance from Real, despite only being two short years off her age reaching triple digits, she bought some cooking products from Danoz Direct, and even make-up from Maybelline, even though she didn’t

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John Marsden Writing Topic #290

‘If you ignore your children they’ll make themselves known somehow.’ Write a story about a child in this situation.** Acting Out I made sure that it only happened in public. Nothing was the same once mum and dad brought the tiny one home. They only wanted to spend time with it and not me, and things weren’t much better when

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First Friday Fix – August 2022

The prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre’s (AWC) First Friday Fix for August 2022 was three creative writing exercises to write three scenes, focusing on showing not telling. *** Ruined Plans Everyone was talking about their plans for the evening at work all day. Some planned on getting cozy in beds and reading, some cozy on their couch and watching

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Fisk – Season 2 Finale (Snitches get Riches)

The job of a season finale is to close the season’s story arcs and establish new ones for the next season (if there is one). As Fisk was a show that had self-contained episodes, this job doesn’t apply to them, however they did manage to close out the season by making references to previous episodes over its entire (so far)

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