Ironside can sound cold and dispassionate without sounding flat. By the same token, I find myself disappointed in the likes of MCU's Thanos voice, which resorts to a stock growly bluster - whereas Ironside can communicate far more menace with just a bit of pause and subtle accentuation.

That's probably the development that's made me happiest in comics over the last year - the resurrection of Stray Bullets, one of my favorite comics ever made (and unjustly unrecognized!), and that it's as if he never stopped, just as you say.

"If you pledge at the $100 level, you get a coffee mug that randomly has either the word "Alive" or "Dead" appear when you pour hot liquid into it. Much like the state you're in before you have coffee in the morning, right, Doris?"

Sex Machine might be the best live album, like, ever, and I've listened to it a million times. So why didn't they rip into the far more lengthy "shout out to every city in America with lots of black people" part that comes after the "should I take it to the bridge?" bit?

Or History of the World, Part I.

I sure as hell remember Pamela Stephenson, for she is pretty much the perfect woman. She's an actor, a comedienne, a writer, a clinical psychologist, a dancer, and a sailor, and she's one of the most drop-dead gorgeous women I've ever seen on screen.

Having heard for years how SNL was a wasteland between the NSRFPT Players and Hartman/Carvey/Lovitz with Murphy the lone exception, I was surprised to note that that was actually a pretty loaded cast - though mostly because they all went on to much better things later on. (Well, maybe not Gary Kroeger.)

I fucking loved it. I wish SNL would go back to that sort of late-night kookiness in their intros (or better yet, their musical guests).

Interesting in the good-night that Murphy has his arm around JLD, and even plants one on her…yet seems pretty chilly to the rest of the cast.

"I'm a very wealthy man. But I'd give it all up…for a little more."

As much as The Kiss was a culmination of one of my favorite relationships on television, it was Root saying, "That's good enough for me" that nearly had me in tears.

I actually think I'm mostly done with late-night television now. I'll check in on the others now and then (whatever you think of Fallon, his writers do come up with some good bits at times), but I realized a little while ago that what I want to cap off my nights is weirdness. Having grown up in the eighties and…

Ass Mode: It's a way of life.

Did you get to catch Kristen Bell's final appearance? It wasn't a full interview segment, unfortunately, but man, was it the perfect little capper to their relationship.

Wheatley as Threepio? I like it.

You make fair points. I still think the dialogue was weak, and did not serve Her well, but I will agree that her lines were not entirely out of character.

Funny, that's the thought I had after I watched Her.

I wouldn't mind elements of humanity - I do think it is very important to have the fingerprints of their creators and nurturers in the shaping of these two minds, no matter how much they've shaped themselves. But to have thoughts without a trace of iterative construction is just too much.

But the question is, how did they give themselves this context in which to put themselves? They'd have to be analyzing different aspects of humanity than their intended purpose, and comparing themselves to those aspects in some search for identity. Do the writers expect us to swallow that this growth has just…

See my response to Cirion above - that dog won't hunt.