I suspect he will be one of the Master of Lake-town's money-grubbing lackeys.

In a fairness for "Signs", the director said that the aliens were "counting coup"; i.e. intentionally doing something difficult to prove their honor or for the challenge of it; the equivalent of us hunting big game on an ammonia-based biosphere.

"what we call a (inaudible) doctrine" - it wasn't inaudible, he said "de fide doctrine". "De Fide" is Latin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_fide

The Battlestar last supper was an insult. They kept hyping that it needed to be "decoded" for all the "cool plot mysteries which we totally planned out" — at BEST, I think the hint in the picture was that there was an empty seat next to Tigh where Ellen was going to sit. That's it.

I clawed the flesh off my face and saw my father's underneath. Then I realized I wasn't asleep.

a return to glory for the Wachowskis? God give me the strength to believe.

By the Great Parrot of Hades! But how does cephalopod intelligence compare?

Well there's another piece in the puzzle of "Why BSG failed", though its one I mostly suspected already: Ron thought of BSG as his answer to Treks failure in its later years, to the point that I think he didn't realize that a cable TV show doesn't have the time, budget, or simply staff size to deal with a project and…

Alan Moore has directly stated that Dr. Manhattan's blue glow is due to Cherenkov Radiation.

Well its not so much "shit" as a concentrated spray of ammonia, think like a big reptile or something.

Fun fact: John Carpenters The Thing and Blade Runner both failed largely because they opened in the summer of 1982....opposite mega-blockbuster E.T., the Extra Terrestrial.

I, also, think the Sisko is the best Star Trek captain.

Why did he combine the Riverlands with the Vale of Arryn and the Stormlands with the Crownlands?

God help us all.

Great post. Yeah. I didn't walk in expecting Battlestar or Heroes seasons 1, I just wanted and entertaining show which actually had some decent intelligent questions and ideas behind it now and then. "Surprisingly good" better than "not the masterpiece I was expecting".

It wasn't a "bad" season, it just hasn't been as good as the last 4-5 episodes of season 1.

"I was half expecting Charleston to turn out to be the reservation where the aliens proposed to stick the human survivors, back in the season opener. (And it still could be, really.)"

You forgot one: a shocking lack of "Insight". Psychopaths fundamentally do not understand normal people. They can mimic and mime some social behaviors, but on a deep seated level, they have a genuine lack of comprehension.

The fate of humanity rests in the hands of this drunk?

No. It contained the musical episode *specifically because* Joss Whedon took season 6 off to *write* just the musical episode, while delegating the rest of the season to other writers.