"everything he writes makes sense in the world" and "It's one of the reasons I really miss Tom Clancy."

You could try to make the point to a five year old not to get pregnant too early, not to do crystal meth, and not to shove pumpkins up their ass. Sure, you can claim they had good intentions, but the school had no business talking to the kid about such things at that age...and they sure as hell had no reason to think…

I had the exact same reaction.

Yeah, then he was only a dick to a herd of pigs, a fig tree that was out of season, and...well...everyone subsequently damned to hell. Warm...yes. Fuzzy, less so.

You call that geek trivia? A dark-Disney princess and a all-audiences action movie losely based on a game? No. Here is your bait:

Thank you. Thank you so much. I was scrolling down past his and wanted someone else to do that correction before I had to!

I only skimmed down the thread, but refuse to believe no one has yet mentioned anything from Black Mirror.

The follow-up was actually worse than "the good ole' 'sorry if you were offended' apology". It was, at least as you quoted it, "I am sorry for anyone who may have been offended."

I don't say? I. Don't. Say? I do say. Come with me and we'll banter about you saying I don't say and my saying I do say while we perambulate from office to office with long tracking shots.

I don't understand your best-friends urge. Most of the staff is introduced as being highly competent and very experienced...and then proceed to trip over their luggage and mass text the entire network about romantic issues and generally fuck up endlessly. Sorkin, while often sounding a bit preachy, is generally good…

Part of it is also that he's said a lot of what he wants to say before...several times. A few years ago I was sick and binge-watched Sports Night...which was good...but you got to hear a lot of the same jokes and topics brought up in a different context. He recycles himself...a lot. I mean, you could easily make an…

Sure, there are a lot more loser shows than good ones, but HBO both has a better proportion of good shows (potentially bucking Sturgeon's Law) and its strong shows are better than a lot of other network's good shows. That, and the risks-taken, as you noted.

That movie felt like a long-form version of the boardroom scene from Dogma. I don't say that as a bad thing.

"Royal College of Art" "could be a boon for space exploration". Sorry. Not buying it. He's got green silk with some science in it. I'd call him a fraud, but I doubt he knows enough about what he claims to do to know any better.

I'm not sure sure if I want that to be a t-shirt or an actual container. Either way, where did you find that image?

You MUST remember them. Those who forget history are doomed to...ooo! Bellbottoms are back? Let me grab my dashiki!

And I thought I'd get to the end of the chart and be able to joke about how far down below the bottom Alan Moore's Jerusalem would go. Instead I find that potter has it beat, just slightly. I'm not sure if that's comforting or scary.

Some continuity was eventually required though. Scully can only disbelieve what she sees every week so long before she and Mulder's perspectives have to align. If she remained purely skeptical too long, it would take more suspension of disbelief to accept her as a character than the MotW would.

Lost's problem wasn't that it was based around continuity, but that it couldn't follow through on it. Most "mysteries" were never explained, but instead buried under other ones or just outright forgotten. If there had been an overall plan that they stuck to and made sense, it could have worked, but as it was, it was…

I loved the very end of SFU, but seasons 4 and 5 were otherwise a barely watchable slog. I'm sure someone could argue that watching the characters make the same mistakes over and over again is significant and meaningful and worthwhile...but when I first watched the show with my folks we gave up after "That's My Dog"…