This disclaimer is almost verbatim the disclaimer that appeared before The Prince of Egypt, which I don't remember generating too much controversy. Then again, I'm comparing an animated musical released in the early days of the Internet (aka Instant-Controversy-Generator-5000) to a gritty film from the director of…

Remember when Spielberg announced he would shoot Crystal Skull on film, and everyone rejoiced, and then the movie came out looking like it was shot through three sheets of gauze and had the color contrast turned up to look like a lazy rip-off of O Brother?

I'm going to stick with my interpretation since, unlike so many eye-rolling fanwanks out there, I think it actually fits quite nicely except that it relies on the characters finding time travel less plausible than IDENTICAL EARTHS.

I guess I technically fanwanked it to be that way, because I've never seen that interpretation anywhere, but seriously, that falls in the realm of what I'd call a MANDATORY FANWANK because otherwise What. The. Fuck. Another identical Earth with biologically compatible humans and identical continents?!?! Unacceptable.

Possibly my most-overused left-field line in real life, but it cracks me and my brothers up every time. That joke just builds and then the final punchline, boom. It helps that I live in Minnesota. For the record, there's a real town called Eagle River, Wisconsin, but not MN to my knowledge.

Same thing for

@AmaltheaElanor:disqus  WHAT?!?! That makes less than no sense. If he wasn't her father, who the hell was he? Ugh, one of the few things I liked about that final stretch of episodes is how they didn't have to triple-underline the fact that he was her dad.
That's actually worse than the "none of the characters recognize…

@avclub-c6447300d99fdbf4f3f7966295b8b5be:disqus My take on whatever weakness exists in the Worf-Dax pairing (definitely in this episode, I honestly don't remember if they improve the characterization later on) isn't that the "opposites attract" cliche is the wrong approach.

Follow the through-line of this story (the AoD 2 part) and it has the smell of an inevitable Crystal Skull phone-in-cash-out all over it. That smell is … not a good smell, a strange mix of apathy and desperation similar to what Chevy Chase must smell like.

I would consider that a huge mark in its favor, personally. I was far more bothered when characters started referring to The Man in Black (around about "Sundown" I believe) as "evil". The show had long shied away from determining everything as black and white, pure good and pure evil, only shades of gray. I still…

It just seemed like an example of a joke that's so thin it calls attention to how inaccurate the premise is. I think the bigger problem was that it was the episode's B-plot, whereas if it had been a quick cutaway gag it would've been harmless and not sucked up so much time on what I thought was a really weak joke.

I spent the first three seasons of 30 Rock evangelizing for the show as the 2nd coming of Arrested Development. Then the first 3-4 episodes of season 4 were just SO BAD that I honestly was a few weeks away from never watching the show again (and I've stuck with some pretty dire show-declines in the past).

@k-thrace (Sorry, I'm not sure how to reply to a name with a space in it …)

I think @farihah:disqus  is making a(n interesting) mistake at the outset of this review, and it shows just how much conventional wisdom is baked into our minds but isn't necessarily correct.

My experience has been exactly the opposite.

I can vouch. My wife and I are currently watching both The Prisoner and Breaking Bad for the first time, and we love reading the episodic reviews from the archives afterward. The downside is that there isn't an "active" discussion going on anymore, but it in some small measure replicates that "book club" feeling I…

You're right that I appear to be contradicting myself. What I meant (but didn't clearly spell out) in my first comment was that the movie was more interesting to the public at large because it purported to be about Facebook. I, PERSONALLY, would have enjoyed a fully fictionalized version since it removes my main…

You're right that I appear to be contradicting myself. What I meant (but didn't clearly spell out) in my first comment was that the movie was more interesting to the public at large because it purported to be about Facebook. I, PERSONALLY, would have enjoyed a fully fictionalized version since it removes my main…

I find it very strange that you're asserting both "this film is great!" and "who cares about the main character/focus of the entire movie?" since I don't think there's much left once we throw Zuckerberg out the window.

I find it very strange that you're asserting both "this film is great!" and "who cares about the main character/focus of the entire movie?" since I don't think there's much left once we throw Zuckerberg out the window.