Serious question, Charlie Jane: for "The show's in the homestretch, and suddenly everybody is acting out of character" were you referring specifically to Battlestar Galactical Season 4? Because that's spot-on what happened. Or is this true of many TV series? I could swear you were thinking of BSG when you wrote…

From a storytelling standpoint, I loved "The Chase"; and I grant that a powerful Progenitor race could have technology advanced enough to encode DNA directions...that's what makes them god-like Progenitor aliens.

For God's sake change the title to "from their Dogs' hair", the title made it sound like they skinned their dogs after they died.

Given what the plotline of "The Cage" was like, yeah I can kind of see how he thought it might be examining relationship issues.

Return of the Jedi speeder bike scene (even though within the context of Star Wars they aren't that unusual)

Well, for what it's "like", the shorthand I've been using is that "it's sort of Alien Nation crossed with Firefly".

I'm really excited: while the movie was great for it's time, yeah, the New Wave Cinema thing wasn't as interesting as the "Law and Order 2035" stuff (well, often it wasn't just cops; they're a Counter Terrorism SWAT team basically). But their post-Cold War political intrigue is much of the fun.

My running guess is that the "organism" isn't some sort of Trill or even an energy being, much much like Del Toro's "the Strain", basically mind-controlling sentient tapeworms....which isn't all that far-fetched, considering how certain parasites are known to influence host behavior; but that the movie won't make this…

This man needs medical attention. This is no laughing matter.

Hilter and Bimmler agree.

*why* is it like this every week?

I'm confused, but Adventure Time premieres on Mondays....if you explained this before I missed it, but why have you been prepping for Adventure Time as if it runs on Saturday...then acting like "we're about to see the puppies" in other articles? This already happened and I read about it on other news sites; you need…

That Ron Moore cameo....was ultimately kind of insulting, due to its timing near the poorly received BSG finale. Instead of being an "accurate" parody of fandom overreacting, it sort of represented what RDM *perceives* fandom overreaction to be: i.e. it was a parody of "fans flipping out because we made some male…

SVU wasn't really a "nerd episode" — in real life people do have clinically diagnosed video game or internet addiction....it's just rare; even the SVU episode their staff psychologist says it's one of the worst cases of video game addiction he's ever seen. But it wasn't treating them as a "subculture" in their own…

I am as constant as the northern star, and I will not forgive what Ron Moore did with BSG so long as I draw breath. It wasn't a snap decision he made, but a prolonged series of mistakes which systematically abandoned all of his original writing principles that attracted me to the show in the first place.

This is literally a ripoff of Twin Peaks, so much so that he has to openly admit it by using the ever-so-popular phrase "it's an homage!"

Sieg Zeon

His logic that she can fly from point A to point B is sound....but becoming a fighter pilot, running evasive maneuvers against other fighers trying to shoot you? That takes at least some training. I'll give you that as she is "strong in the force" she's a natural much as Luke was....but don't push the realism of…

Favorite memory? "I can live with it."

What would have been mind-blowing is if Hadfield had gone on to say, "and I want to leave you as you left me, trapped in a dead world, buried alive"