Me too! Maybe it was an intentional feint on the filmmakers' part to try to keep us interested since the main "twist" was not remotely surprising.

I liked the old credits! It made me think how (in my head) I would taunt religious people who believed all these astounding miraculous spectacles happened in the past but now for some reason we're reduced to the Madonna-appeared-in-a-splatter-of-paint variety; the notion of something miraculous actually happening now…

That same woman chatted with Kevin in a bar later in season 1, didn't she?

If I understand you right (buried on the front page = hard to discover on the front page), then maybe you'll be pleased to know that's how I landed here. I never navigate to the games section of avclub (I'm not much of a gamer at all), but the excerpt of this on the front page was enough to draw me in, and now I…

"You can choose!!!!!"

Fittingly, I was trapped on an airplane when I saw this, and here's what I remember. I had finished my book, couldn't sleep, and had no other way to entertain myself on a long flight. So I alternated repeatedly for a long, long while between getting overcome by boredom doing nothing at all and getting overcome by…

Wait, has no one attempted a pun on "desperately tried to fill the will-they/won’t-they hole" yet? What gives, avclub commenters?

Vega's boss (does he have a name?) sounds like he doesn't understand his own lines.

Oh, did Gotham get way better? My friend and I were all excited for it, and then could barely bear to finish watching the first episode, to say nothing of trying the second.

C'mon, avclub, you know the number one question we all want answered about the new season:

So a human meatbag, a zombie skinbag, and a cylon skinjob walk into a bar…

I found it hard to pay attention the whole way through, but it seems correct to me that the Cobalt infodump beggars belief. Can TV please stop pretending that as long as torture is presented "thoughtfully" enough it becomes a magic macguffin for advancing the plot? I think it's both an artistic and an ethical mistake.

I found it hard to pay attention the whole way through, but it seems correct to me that the Cobalt infodump beggars belief. Can TV please stop pretending that as long as torture is presented "thoughtfully" enough it becomes a magic macguffin for advancing the plot? I think it's both an artistic and an ethical mistake.

1) Green on Maroon by Rothko. Not to be confused with Green and Maroon. Saw it in person in a museum and had to just sit and stare at it for a good 20 minutes, not sure why!

Hope your day turned around since then, SuperheroesOfBMX!

Was either the Worf character or Michael Dorn's acting any better on DS9 than on TNG? I was always disappointed with the post-TOS conceptualization of Klingons (still fairly juvenile in breadth/depth of characterization), and Worf never seemed to elevate it much (most of his personality being reducible to "I am a…

I'm probably not the first person to comment this, and I don't care:

Who knew alien-hybrid-bestiality was going to strike such a nerve in Rabin? He's really clutching his pearls here. Sorry, I think that "human exceptionalism" attitude is truly incompatible with fantastical scifi.

I think it depends on the sophistication of your audience and script. You can control your audience's experience very tightly if that's what you want (and most mainstream audiences want that themselves). Personally, I appreciate a script that tolerates ambiguity by not immediately spelling everything out.

And yet somehow, he still has "only a vague sense of what is going on." Sounds familiar. Kind of expected to see another pills-in-jelly-beans Rabinism.