Let it go, toresimonsen. Let it go.

I thought 24 was you take a drink anytime Jack says, "Dammit!"

Gotta second Todd here. Season five is the shit.

If there were a Hall of Fame for crushes, Amy Acker would be in it. From Fred to Illyria to a doctor with a scarred face to a male psychotic killer in a suit . . . is she ever not both fantastic and hot? How she isn't a bigger star is beyond me.

Check out the terrible editing on that, too. She's running full tilt from an explosion that's nipping at her heels, we cut to a shot of the building's exterior, the camera pans to Paul et al., and then Echo strolls up. Huh? And, again, the building itself was perfectly intact. I started wondering if Dollhouse had…

Maybe my problem with Paul/Mellie was that, on the one hand, Tahmoh Penikett is a very limited actor and not been well-served by the part, so since we're seeing Mellie die through his eyes, it leaves me relatively cold. On the other hand, the actress who plays Miracle Laurie comes across as a fine actress, but not…

Ooh, maybe a cliche, tough-guy goatee. And an eye patch.

Lone Audience, I hated the Mellie business. *SPOILER* It was such a cliche the way Paul pleaded to her and she relented then killed herself. I've seen that done too many times and Dollhouse brought nothing new to the table with it. It felt weightless, and I'm not sure if it was due to the writing, the performances,…

It's not something I normally notice, but man, the budget really, really interfered with the ambitions of the episode. From the lousy fight between Echo and Claire/Clyde (so much editing, they might as well have posted a minute's worth of blank screen emblazoned with "Fight Scene") to Echo running from the explosion…

last week's episode was great
Tonight's I found spectacularly silly.

I'm not up to writing a mini-essay in refutation right now, Elitist Trash, especially since that would require subjecting myself to watching them again. (And I did watch them more than once or twice, hoping that they would improve with familiarity.) Anyway, Louis Canon already posted the only necessary link, a…

star wars prequels
Noel, I don't think it would be possible to convince me they're any good, but I would LOVE to read your argument on it. Please write it up. Pretty please? Especially since everyone's seen that video review of The Phantom Menace on YouTube recently.

my two favorite jokes in Klaus and Greta
One was definitely the little bow Franco had the body pillow do at the end. The other was Jack saying, "You sicken me" to his assistant when he can't fit his body through the hanger.

Good point. It's just softcore agribusiness.

Yeah, I just looked it up and maybe the problem is that, while it made $49 million—nothing to sneeze at for a movie 20 years ago—the budget was estimated to be around $40 million. Once you include marketing costs, it probably lost money in the theatrical run.

And thanks for the recommendations.

That was awesome. Kind of like a mid-century Southern short story.

I like reading Laura Miller, but I don't always trust her opinion. The main thing this time around is that I wasn't a huge fan of Then We Came to the End. It was okay and I could see why people might love it, but it wasn't quite on my wavelength—not enough to make his new book required reading anyway. Some of the…

I own it. Completely worth it.

too lazy to check, but . . .
. . . wasn't Bugsy a hit? That was after Dick Tracy. Or was it just a critical hit?