Except I don't think that quote actually originated from Lennon.

But with 30 Rock any lack of realism came from deliberate absurdity, not cluelessness about what the reality was.

To be fair, Supernova was 14 years ago.

That is a pretty unsettling article. There does seem to be a very troubling pattern of behavior on Allen's part. While the incidents witnessed by a variety of people may not qualify as criminal, they certainly paint a pretty damning portrait of Allen as a father—and just as a human relating to children.

It's not like Mia Farrow was the only love interest of Sinatra's to claim abuse.

I like both shows, too. I'm annoyed with the false choice notion that one of them has to suck just because. They definitely both have their strengths and weaknesses, but they're both well-crafted shows. I tend to be more defensive about 'Elementary' because it is frequently dismissed summarily by 'Sherlock' fans.…

I disagree. I don't like the term "nerd blackface", I do think there's a germ of criticism at the heart of that that is valid. And, to be sure, the term is used mainly by a subset of nerds themselves to describe the show. My primary issue is that the characters being nerds is the primary punchline and while it's not…

It's strange that a song about herpes should be so upbeat.

That is mind-bogglingly ridiculous, I concur.

Weird. I was never assigned 'Frankenstein', either. While I can't recall anyone badmouthing it, I felt like the majority of academia I encountered sort of put it in a genre ghetto. Weirdly, Poe didn't get lumped into this category, for some reason, but I felt like 'Frankenstein' wasn't taken very seriously.

It's not about how pretty she is. It's not that she needs to be more nerdy. It's that none of the details seem to make her backstory seem at all authentic. She has no texture that seems to sync up with an actual life.

Me too. I didn't think the pilot was a story-telling triumph, but I thought it was a pretty solid beginning. Pilots have a lot of work to do.

Agreed. The "beacon of freedom" comment seemed less an expression of Sherlock's own attitude about the city and more a statement of its symbolic nature to politically motivated bombers.

Conan Doyle was exactly a paragon of consistency, but his Holmes was usually fairly gentlemanly and compassionate, even though he was exceptionally different. He was single-minded about his work and intolerant of stuff that gets in the way of it, but he was decent for his occasional lapses. Despite Watson's comments…

I think it's much less the case that Zooey got better and more that Meriwether and the other writers toned down her whimsy and manic pixieness in the writing. I think Zooey was pretty much delivering what was asked of her since the beginning. The character is just written less twee and more knowing now.

Even worse, for me, I didn't buy a lot of his snottiness. The guy has no problem with openly defying his CO by wearing his Speedo, but is thrown when his CO calls everybody else into the room? If you have the gall to do the former, you're probably not going to turn a hair at the latter.

It can't be a cape with fringe?

Hawkguy/Black Widow? Ahem, don't you mean Black *Window*?

Yeah, it's not clear to me that Mal has that much faith in the world at large at all, but he believes in the principle and he believes in protecting his family.

Kafka would like a word with you.