I think this whole comment thread proves you didn't go very far down the wormhole, Mike.

That's the OHOTMU Shulkie, right?

No one wants to talk about the assertion of the best scene in the picture? Thing is, I might agree with him: it's a jarring scene on every level, a quiet moment in a loud, quick film, the carefree smiles and laughs of young people, and the melting of same, suddenly make the viewer come up for air from the immersion…

Nope - for a long, long time, Thermopylae has been literary and journalistic shorthand for "hopeless stand against impossible odds", very near if not part of the vernacular (think newspapers, not literary journals). It's only since the movie came out that younger generations now know it as "the battle of the 300" or…

The Wiz, interestingly, accomplishes much the same thing.

What a perfect analogy. The conga line of dead girlfriends is exactly like the graveyard of first-round draft picks.

Charlie Psyduck Brown!

Culture novels also reference Spheres. That's about as big as SF works projects can plausibly get.

I'd much prefer another crack at The Shadow.

The first several paragraphs of the review actually had my genuine interest. But in the end, it's still Emmerich - there's no interesting idea he cannot fail to exploit.

Terror Bird below is not wrong, but make no mistake, it is the dumbest of the dumb. I hate to use the term "turn off your brain", but seriously, with Emmerich films you simply can't enjoy them without feeling a certain glee at immense, over-the-top stupidity. (And even then, there's a howlingly empty core around…

Oh, wow. That gives me a glow. I hope you've read other Zelazny, he's a brilliant writer.

**bump back, fists explode like they was Semtex**

Series favorite? All time favorite, Hersh. "I can do it…"

That's a wonderful, true thing.

I had taken a year off from the AVC through S2 and into 3, and then started a whole new account, so I'm unsure if there were any comments in the very early days. As far as I can tell, it's this from "Beta":

I'm going to be patient and give it a few years (ideally while introducing it to someone), but I'm excited to rewatch the series again knowing all I know.

You were watched.

I've got to give a special shoutout to "Firewall", as it's the episode that really hooked me on this show - back in 2012, I had absolutely no idea who Amy Acker was, so the reveal genuinely surprised me. (In my defense, I had only watched about five episodes up til then, and "the victim is the perpetrator" was not yet…

This list is excellent.