I really think that's where this is going, and long-term leads to her taking up the Canary mantle from Sara's (hopefully not-dead) hands.

I'm pretty sure B:TAS used "roz" actually.

Yeah, I'm really pleased with the long-term plotting prospects for this show right now. This is easily the best comics adaptation (well, live action, at least) on TV, probably ever.

Yeah, I still can't get completely on the Laurel hate train, either. I mean, the character has its problems, but all her reactions last night made sense to me.

My eyes just rolled back in my head a little…

Country Western Hootenanny

They're um, not really musicians. Activists/performance artists first and foremost.

Don't be fatuous, Dorek.

Ugh, I actually read The Butlerian Jihad novel. What a shit sandwich.

Joe Buck is the worst everything. All the time.

True, but…

Yeah, they probably could easily have, but you're bang on w the cost of the actual devices. I saw Roger Ebert speak just a couple years back, and his device was highly "computerized" in its voice because he was still having a new device incorporating recordings of his natural speech built at great cost.

I would guess that it was the actual voice of Gleason's communication device. I have friends who use similar devices, and they sound very similar to the voice used in the ad.

I think a full-blown TV prestige drama set in the Dune universe could work (something like Game of Thrones mashed up w the BSG reboot, as far as tone and general feel), but yeah I think a straight-up film adaptation of the story is near impossible, as well.

I get that they really ramp up the Baron's loathsomeness in the movie, but he is a deeply unpleasant brute in the book as well. Mind you, I only read the book after having seen the movie, so my perspective is likely altered by that fact.

Counterpoint: Morpheus singing opera. But yeah, there was a lot of shilling by supposed countercultural icons this year, wasn't there?

Yeah, that was really well done. As a power wheelchair user myself, I was worried it would tip over into treacly inspiration porn, but it didn't, and it very effectively got across the notion that yes, technology is awesome.

Sherlock murders Magnusson because Magnusson is a bully. It's that simple. There are hints at lingering childhood trauma from bullying in Sherlock's past (Mycroft? Kids at school? Who knows? Moffat and Gatiss might) and when he sees his best friend being humiliated, while that friend's life w the woman that friend…

I don't think I'll be able to properly rate this series until we see Series 4, because right now this run feels like a (necessary) transition, and a lot of setup for Moriarty's return. Series 1 (minus the Blind Banker) is still my favorite (Reichenbach is the only Series 2 ep I find worth revisiting), but there wasn't…

Wesley Crusher was never on Doctor Who…