Joss is a third-generation screenwriter. This means he was raised by Hollywood people. Which means that he's gonna find ways to jazz up his name so it'll stand out on the page.

The biggest change with the Simon/River backstory in the movie is the revelation that Simon had a more active hand in breaking her out and we don't see her getting frozen in the box she's in at the start of the show. And that's easily fixed by shrugging and saying that Simon probably had some pretty good reasons not…

Keep in mind that Whedon himself has even touched on the fact that we only ever see the Alliance through Mal's eyes on the show and that causes more than a bit of bias. As he's explained, in commentaries and through certain characters, the Alliance is not the Empire from Star Wars.

The internet isn't always great to TV
The Internet Age is a double-edged sword when it comes to television. Sure, it gave rise to the 'Whedon cult' and made Serenity possible. But if it wasn't for the internet's Instant Feedback Machine, shows like Dollhouse would have been given more of a chance. If the first season…

It's a cool video, don't get me wrong. I just think it would be cooler if the song was better.

Eh
Cute video, but can they give it another shot with some decent music?

Sure, it's a big deal now…
…but in 2013, whatever is chosen, nobody will give a shit.

'Games as art' question
"As gaming has matured, countless arguments have broken out over whether the medium can ever transcend itself and become art. Many people will point to Heavy Rain as tipping the scales, but that's pointless."

Norm MacDonald's a worthless fuckcake.

@Chico — If your tapes were coming out of the library where dozens of people had checked them out, they'd be in the same shape as those CD's and DVD's.

When I apologize to you, AGMW, you'll know it. Let me rephrase: there are articles out there, but because these blog sites update their software every ten minutes it's tough to find a link that still works to the articles in question.

The Lord President?
Is it wrong of me to hope for a moment that the Time Lord being played by Timothy Dalton is going to eventually turn out to be the Valeyard, having clawed his way up the ranks after the Trial?

I'm pretty sure that saying "You're wrong" over and over again isn't going to win you this argument. The climax of RTD's last special is going to be his deus ex machina to undo whatever it is the Master did. I'm having trouble finding a specific news article where they address it, but Moffat was the one who cast Smith.

I'd figured the Master's flickering into a skeletal appearance, combined with the hooded sweatshirt, was meant to be kind of a 'grim reaper versus the Doctor' sort of imagery. And with the Doctor starting to come to grips with the fact that he's going to die (and/or regenerate) soon, he finds himself chasing after…

The problem with the Colin Baker years was that they were during a period where the network was run by someone who hated the show and was trying to invent excuses to get away with cancelling it. Think like the plot of "Major League," only British.

The old series continuity was never quite consistent, either. Individual writers would often write stories that would retcon out implications or details from their own past stories (Terry Nation rewriting massive chunks of established-earlier Dalek history in "Genesis of the Daleks") or they would just go back and…

"Ok, I just don't have the Doctor Who base of knowledge to know this, but do the Daleks really have the time traveling chops to try to break a time locked event open?"

The BBC barely has the budget to do the Doctor Who stuff they have _now_. I mean, other than the specials they basically took a year off, and Torchwood was cut down to a single five-episode arc. I doubt they're going to do a new spinoff for another couple of years.

Was I the only one who thought just for a second that, at the end, Adelaide was going to shoot the Doctor first before herself?

Also, by taking them to another timeline or world, he's all but killing them.