Hey Todd, do you know when you'll be getting back into the Soprano? I'm jonesin' here! Although I did take advantage of the break in coverage to pick up season one on DVD,  and watching the first episode of season 6a is very interesting to watch immediately after finishing the end of season one. There are several…

also ask the AV Club vs AV Club Q&A. There are only so many ways to analyze the history or modern media, and new media isn't being produced quickly enough to keep up with the content the site needs to produce on an ongoing basis. We've already had specific TV shows reviewed in both VSE and TV Cub Classic, it's bound…

DJ's and electronic musicians have been using this model to promote their work for over a decade now, and it works pretty well. The BBC radio one Essential Mix has been around for nearly 20 years, and while it started out on the radio (and still is to this date), the format's been essentially the same the whole…

it doesn't take too much savvy to download an mp3, but there are several steps involved if you want to download and listen to the mp3 wherever you are. take for example, in the car. you've got to download it, transfer it to your iPOD / smartphone (unless you've got unlimited data on your smartphone and you can just…

Pretty much every female character on Shonda Rhimes shows are one version or another of Miranda Bailey. I think that's where all the crazy monologues got started,  The ones where Bailey's had it at the end of the episode and loses her shit on someone, just spewing dialogue for a minute or two at some scared looking…

So what exactly makes it so contemptable to preferencially consume media that's made by or features "one of us" isn't it natural for one to be interested in portrayals of people with similar ethnic, cultural, or religious, particularly if such portrayals are fairly uncommon? I'm not saying one should watch crappy TV…

You don't have to be a fan of prat falls to appreciate Chase's falls. say what you will about him, but he sells the hell out of those falls. If nothing else, they can be appreciated for how well executed they are alone. The one where he falls over the drum kit and ends up all tangled up in them (in season two, IIRC)…

The argument

Fair points, to be sure. I reserve the right to change my mind later on as the series gets better and/or I get used to the different nuances in DS9.

Trekinosis; you beat me to the punch! those were exactly the points I was going to make (although probably better worded than I would have done) I don't have a problem with god's existence or lack thereof; frankly I don't have a clue which is correct, therefore the subject provides me with absolutely zero guidance in…

I can understand that viewpoint, even if it might not be really correct. DS9 hasn't been quite as enjoyable to me so far compared to TNG or TOS. sure, the quality of the writing and acting is better than the first couple of seasons of TNG and most of season 3 of TOS, and the character development and serialization…

I'll definitely agree that the vast majority of theists are trying to do the right thing. The portion that cynically use religion for manipulation like Vedek Winn are a very small minority.

Married With Children was pretty solid for more than just the first couple of season, IMO. the problem is that they kept on making more and more seasons (a total of 11) after things changed that you can't remember the earlier, not so ridiculous seasons anymore.

Yeah, I'm not sure how someone can feel differently. And the fact that Tracy is the only one who actually calls him Space Man only serves to make it better.

I'll come to The Royale's defense as well. It was a fun episode, the dead astronaut's fate was a nice twist and a fairly scary premise to boot (the idea of being trapped somewhere due to such a silly misunderstanding with one of the universe's many GLB's is much scarier to me than, say, a bunch of Klingons with…

Kids. they fucking love that goddamn Jar Jar. and especially the stupid roger roger droids. I've got 3yr old and 7 yr old boys, there was never any doubt that I'd be shelling out roughly $40 for us to all go see it the weekend it came out.

I agree with you in principle, and ultimately Varis knows that the land's not really theirs as well. But in practice I can see how there could be a dispute. Suppose during the course of however many years it's been since the river was diverted her father allowed a bunch of settlements to be built there, similar to…

Wouldn't it depend on how hot the planet is though? at some point, if the average temperature is hot enough, and provided you've got a relatively low amount of of water on the planet in total, couldn't a large majority of the ground water end up evaporated? I suppose it would be hot as hell and pretty damn humid, but…

I guess they just wanted to hold the main ensemble down to 7, and needed to fill both the Spock and Sulu roles with one character, kinda how Data gets to be both in order to accomodate Toi's presence. Come to think of it. she's really pulling triple duty as Uhura too, since Odo doesn't man the space-switchboard like…

@ Arex: Mustafar is refered to as a "volcanic planet" in RoTS, and in the novelisation of Star Wars it's explained that Tattoine is a desert planet due to the heat generated by its two suns. It's implied in the movie by the fact that Owen Lars is a moisture farmer; presumably it would be more economical to simply pipe…