It's the Your Body Is A Wonderland of tackling form.

So we all remember (1) Carter and Henry separately using the Artifact's transdimensional nature to "transfer their mind" back to a point in the past, and (2) Carter and Zoey driving out of Eureka rather than into it. (The timing on this is a little clodgy, since they had yet to get into the town to get out of it, but…

Sam Holbrook would have something to say about that.

In the trailer, they showed [character] and [character] [doing something with their lips] in front of [crucial development found at end of book]. If they had stuck to their guns and cut it to include that closing flourish, I feel it would've born some benefit.

I hit that point as well, but I feel like we're being nudged towards, "Oh, yeah, that was someone else's hand, but while you were figuring out the Holly bit, you presumed it was connected."

Here's your daily "I know that guy!" recommendation: I was Joel Schroder's RA in college and can heartily recommend Dear Mr. Watterson as a good product from a good guy. Exciting to see it get some traction.

David really needed to pull Shaw aside at the end and tell her, "It's turtles all the way down, my dear."

Most of the brilliance of the series comes through how it handles commentary and subtext on the sexuality/pregnancy/rape/abortion line of topics. Alien had plenty of matter regarding sexual violence (to wit: the implantation act by the face-hugger is all kinds of rapey, and the xeno birth itself makes a violent moment…

Stick this article in the inbox of everyone who says they don't "believe in" National Novel-Writing Month.

This. was. my. exact. though. It took two seconds to realize that their tones were enormously too rich for the setting, and then there were slight mismatch issues as well (especially with Neil).

Paglia's been teasing the size of the arc on Twitter for a few days now, and maybe the most salient element of all this is that we're entering a third episode that's connected to its predecessors by iron hinge. Even during the 10-ep 0.5 seasons, we usually got to something episodic by the second or third show. Here,…

Come, now. A Favre-less camp is the only kind.

Next to the Santa Clara Steve Nash, is that... Jon Leuer?

Sure. Pirates finally go south, and you gotta pin it on SOMEthing.

Christ, am I glad I found this thread. I despised this book, Half the time, it was exposition of haughty douches that went nowhere, and the other half, it was clear send-up that jigsawed the plot and clearly revealed Grossman as someone who wishes he had written one of those better books. Ucking fugh.

The Lost axiom to which I subscribe: If at the end, you discovered that you weren't on board for the journey as others were, and you longed to enroll in the burgeoning masses who love to fast-twitch unload on such things, there's nothing I can say to change the situation.

If they're casting for "Leader of the Heat Who Lured MVP to Miami and Had It Cost HIm a Second Ring", I know a guy.

Rearrange the United League West, and you get SALSA FADS. Explains it all.

Annalee - Flak Magazine beat you to this space by a few years:

This feels like a corollary to Chuck Lorre's maxim regarding comedy: "If you start with the joke, you'll never rise above glib."