Were the comments this shitty in Disqus? Seems to me the environment here has gotten worse since the move to Kinja. But, that’s the kind of thing it’s easy to fool oneself on.

Roger cares about his daughter.
He cares a little bit about his daughter's mother, in an absently fond way.

Sigh.

No love for Wilford Brimley in The Natural? "I shoulda been a farmer."

The Liman-directed and Gilroy-written first Bourne movie is possibly the best spy movie of all time. It is awesome. The two Paul Greengrass -directed ones are terribly disappointing. The writing is uninteresting; and the epilepsy-cam is horrible to sit thru. Painful. Plus does no one notice that those two movies…

You guys can't actually be serious about this, can you? The first movie was the least?

Since when is Paul Greengrass part of "the original Bourne team "??
The original Bourne team was Doug Liman, Tony Gilroy, and Matt Damon. The movie they made is awesome. It's Paul Greengrass who leads the B-team.

How about 2001 and Solaris?

It's odd to mention Pale Rider / High Plains Drifter, without mentioning that Drifter itself is sort of a sequel to High Noon. Give an alternate ending to Noon, where Will Kane is killed when Frank Miller returns to town; then Drifter is a sequel to THAT, with the Stranger wreaking vengeance on the whole town for…

I thought Frakes did a nice job with First Contact. I enjoyed it.

:-)

Julia Roberts joining Benjamin Bratt on Law & Order?

Where's Thomas Dolby, "Europa & the Pirate Twins" and "Eastern Bloc"?

Way more, I love me some Man-Thing.
Ah, Steve Gerber. RIP.

@avclub-3caea4d9bcdd5cde2b1a1f338a06a086:disqus No, reviews without extensive recapping do not have to be structureless or oblique. For counter-example, see review of most recent Game of Thrones episode "Oathkeeper". (Experts version.)
http://www.avclub.com/tvclu…

Lord Foul's Bane was the first book.
I can think of lots of reasons why someone wouldn't continure. :-)
But whatever, I liked it.

Why is it so common for REVIEWS of episodes to act as SYNOPSES of episodes? Why do TV show reviewers also synopsize the episode?

That was THREE books.

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, in paperback, circa 1976-7.

Sansa.