My reaction too. We did essentially this in grad school, except with a program that also took into account our weighted preferences.

Well, yes, that was after the retcon.

It really is excellent. And it's pretty much the only Arthurian film I know of that I would unreservedly call a good film.

If HBO is Coke and non-HBO cable is Pepsi, what are the expensive colas that I drink, like Q Kola?

I enjoyed this comment, even though I disagree with it.

The thing about Fight Club is that I feel like either I grossly misunderstood this film, or a lot of other people grossly misunderstood it. I mean, if it really did espouse the kind of macho, pro-violence, anti-society that a lot of people seem to think it does, I would hate it. But in the movie I watched, that…

The thing is, the books don't present atheism - they present a world where 1. the Judeo-Christian god exists, and he's evil, and 2. an ultimately good god-force exists (the Dust), but it's impersonal, unlike the personal gods of Western religion.

I say that everyone who procreates should be a little bit ashamed. I'm only about 30% joking.

Ah, my understanding of the joke was limited by a lack of knowledge concerning your browsing habits. I use Firefox too, incidentally.

Wait, Chrome is old now? Seriously? When did this happen?

Yeah, the thing was, it was obvious from the beginning that Spock and McCoy were actually friends of a sort. Whereas Pulaski is mean to Data the very first time she meets him.

Oh, everybody was playing the orgasm game everywhere.

I actually don't think I've watched it since it first aired. I do remember one line I liked: 'He better win, because if he doesn't, we're taking a trip to the glue factory… and he doesn't get to come.'

Sequels that assume the audience saw and remembers the previous movie are, however, a lot more common today than they were before about 1980.

Yeah, I think it wasn't until season 14 that it became outright bad, on average. The quality started declining in season 9, but I actually think that seasons 9-11 were pretty solid, with some notable exceptions ("The Principal and the Pauper", "Saddlesore Galactica"). And there are even season 14 episodes that I…

We'll see. I'm still skeptical. (Part of my negativity toward the upcoming Star Wars movies may have to do with my love for the EU growing up.)

I was going to say that since the previous writer's strike gave us the TNG episode 'Shades of Gray', this time we got off easy. But if somehow the blame for Abrams's Star Trek can be assigned to the strike, it was more serious than I thought.

Great job, perhaps. But how does the internet get the credit for this?

I would argue that 2001 has a happy ending. But of course, the point stands that most of his movies end fairly grimly.

Exactly. The ending is very, very depressing. That doesn't mean it isn't sentimental. In fact, I would say it's depressing precisely because it is so sentimental.