Was hoping you guys and girls were going to bust out the telekinetic teen from Space Academy, one of those low-budget Filmation live-action Saturday morning shows from the late 70's.

I started Golden Time, and I'm hopeful that it develops in an interesting direction, but I can certainly see it being a second-tier Toradora! just as easily (in fact, Manic Pixie Nightmare Girl Kōko kind of looks like Taiga without the stunted growth).

Bakemonogatari is impenetrable and obtuse and difficult, but not without its rewards for the determined viewer. It switches from painfully slow to scary fast in a heartbeat, and it throws subliminals at you in a blur of synaptic overload. Try the first episode, and understand that all the remaining episodes are exactly…

No, that was mine. Quinn honestly had little to say about CWACOM2 afterwards except for noting a few of the food/animal puns. Mostly she talked about the trailers for films she wants to see.

I really need to get The Secret of Kells on some kind of disc while it's still possible to do so. Really lovely film.

Saw Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 with my daughter. Little more than a game of connect-the-tropes between Jurassic Park and Avatar. Meh.

How about dinner at Bilgewater's with a performance by Hedwig and the Angry Inch?

Tearinitup: I am not about to step into the FMA/Brotherhood anime fan pissing match, sorry!

iTunes if you like paying for things, YouTube if you don't. Not on Netflix or Hulu, and cartoonnetwork.com only has clips. Seems like it's perpetually on Boomerang if you get that.

Lucky you. Now there are two to choose from. Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), in standard-def, more character-driven, and highly divergent from the source manga, or Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (2009), high-def, more action-oriented, and highly faithful to the manga.

Internet video reviewer JesuOtaku has a great Madoka Magica review in which she draws out how the show is structured like a classical tragedy, and how that helps give it such resonance. And just as a Shakespearean tragedy will end with the other characters talking about the main character (like Horatio and Fortinbras…

The pacing of the second half of that last Bebop episode is so perfect: Spike's farewells to Jet (the story of the cat who couldn't die) and Faye (the story of Spike's eyes), the immensely satisfying raid on the Red Dragon building, the showdown with Vicious, and finally the soaring "Blue" and "You're gonna carry that…

Anyone who gets Ambush Bug on TV gets a like. He has the greatest power in the DC Universe: knowing that he is in the DC Universe.

Bebop's great, but it might not even be in the top 5 for sadness when it comes to anime. Heaven help your heart if you ever make it to the ending of Clannad After Story or Air.

The Prisoner, "Fall Out", because it put all its ambition and ideas out there and forced viewers to decide for themselves what it meant…
Blake's 7, "Blake", because it was true to its bleak cynicism all the way to its inevitable conclusion (something the equally cynical Battlestar Galactica famously chickened out of)…
Te…

I recall reading, in one of those TNG yearenders that "Cinefantastique" magazine used to run, that "The Drumhead" was put together as an inexpensive bottle show using existing sets, when the show was running over budget for the season and needed something cheap (and was actually considering doing another clips…

Spent Saturday driving home from a conference, so I had a one-day delay in watching the season finale of this year's runaway anime hit Attack On Titan. I got into this show reluctantly — comedy and doomed schoolgirls are more my thing when it comes to anime — but my friends' enthusiasm got me to catch up, and it's an…

Don't want Detroit? How about Grand Rapids-based ska band Mustard Plug, whose Miss Michigan takes the whole "mitten" thing in a totally wrong direction by making it a euphemism for masturbation.

No freaking idea. I can't watch that endless shonen stuff. Maybe it's like Doctor Who: jump on wherever it's convenient, get the general gist, and enjoy whatever arc you happen to end up in, but certainly don't expect to go back and watch the 600 episodes you've already missed.

Seems like part of the reason this has become a problem is with the increased serialization of television: it's no longer enough to have watched many or most episodes of a show when so many are best enjoyed (or only understood) by watching every epsiode, in order. Nobody in this list is talking about watching a few Fri…