interminability
i don't agree with Todd that often, but he's certainly right about the lafayette-jesus joint dream-a-thon going on simply forever. i guess i'd rather see them hallucinate forever than make googly eyes at each other forever, but neither one is an enjoyable experience.

verbatim: "well, as a man enters his 18th decade…"

for me, absence of notable negatives simply clears you over the B+ hurdle into A territory. to get an unqualified A, you'd need not just the absence of bad but the presence of real amazingness.

love and hate
did anyone else hate the shape that AJ overworked his polka dots into? i know they like it when you "play with volume," but he turned his model into a moldy tootsie roll monster, no? (dressed up for a picnic.)

ooh, fame!
John liked my nickname idea! i'm as giddy as a tittering Michael C! this means i'm now hot stuff and can begin offering unsolicited advice and purposeless bossiness around the workroom, right?

"warning: the enema you are about to enjoy is extremely hot."

so good!
the only negative thing i could say about this episode is… um, it could have been even better somehow?

yes, "night terrors" and "the loss" are my favorite troi episodes (give her a break in "night terrors," guys, she's freaking dreaming). i'm actually pretty curious, based on this review, what Zack will think of "the loss" next season. Sirtis's acting and troi's characterization there straddle a weird border between…

on the topic of the final battle between vampires and humans…

i suspect that andy might want to plant the v somewhere to make his case come together more easily.

is pam only a hundred?
i was surprised to hear pam say she's only been with eric 100 years. i assumed she was older than that! she certainly talks a tough game, and claims to have forgotten how to tell human ages, etc. i wonder whether she might have been turned earlier, and left "home" for a protracted adolescence…

@Dread Cthulhu:

yeah, that was weird…

it's both a theory and a fact. it's an observable fact that we can see at work all around us in the present, and that logically couldn't not exist. but it's also an extremely well-supported theory regarding past events.

true. not even Nixon.

"god rest her zombie bones" is my favorite line from my favorite episode.

@elitist trash: evolution is not teleological, it is an adaptive response to environment.

st. murse, you need to have yourself a long, deeply depressing look at the results from polling on this issue in the united states.

futuramalicious
i adore the way futurama unapologetically and nonchalantly brushes aside gargantuan implausibilities (random solar flare kills rampaging dinobots -> leela: "convenient!") and seemingly unavoidable dooms (ship devoured by trilobots -> leela: "my sunglasses were in there!"). those are usually my…

"sweet three-toed sloth of ice planet hoth!"