Things I thought of while watching this week's Star Trek
It cracks me up how mad Anya gets when she storms into Wesley's room and says "I told you to stay away from the girl!" I just really want him to yell "Hey, this is my room!"

I once read a book of…something written by someone who's batshit insane. He left his missive, titled "The Book of Woo", in our movie theater so we brought it to the lost and found where curiosity got the better of us. I'll never forget the image of Pac-Man with multiple stab wounds and the knife still sticking out of…

I'll be defending MacGruber too come Year of Flops time. The depths of the character's psychosis matches only someone like…Tom Cruise! Hey, we've come full circle!

MacGyver!!!!!
Which one of these had MacGyver's son in it? Or am I just imagining that plot?

As someone who is watching these for the first time, and just caught up with the reviews last night, I found both episodes moving. Buffy immediately accepting Dawn, and having an awareness from general pop culture as to how far she will go to protect her, instantly struck me. And seeing the whole gang band together to…

As long as there's a scene where an evil karate guy zip lines down a row of Chinese Lanterns breaking each of them in turn until he lands in the center of a ring during the middle of a hurricane. I don't remember much about Karate Kid 2, I also believe ice was throughly punished for some reason, but I always remember…

I remember I was taking a summer driver's ed class at my high school and this was all we could talk about on breaks. When the trial stuff started getting under way we'd all discuss what was in the mysterious manilla envelope and other such assorted bits of history long forgotten. Just reading about this brought that…

Just in the 90s?
I think the mam talks to ape trend started in the 80s. I have this vague recollection of this show called Probe which I believe was a show about a man and his ape solving crimes. He was a scientist and I thought it was cool until it got cancelled due to the writer's strike. I'm not even going to look…

Ugh, Generations. Features all the good world building and characterization you've spent over 30 years enjoying and then completely forgets all about that in an ending that makes no sense in plotting or character.

I'm in Arizona. That's sort of like the west coast. Though we're suddenly not cool to associate with anymore. Which is too bad, I'm like 5 hours from Vegas.

Yeah, lasers may not scratch the deflection shield but check out what it does to human flesh! At least a phaser is humane, you just turn into a big blob of energy and dissapear.

Uh oh, I'll be buying a ticket for Machete in Arizona! I hope, this time, my whiteness pays off!

I made my roommate watch the phaser blast because I remember that effect being a little horrifying as a kid. After it happened his only response was "Was that it?"

With everyone talking about what a hated episode "Okona" was I wanted to see if there was anything I liked. I think there was some good crew interaction. There's a moment where Troi smiles at Data mostly because he is acting so stupidly. It may even be a little sense of smug superiority. Also did anyone think that the…

When I moved to a different state a friend told me my blocks of two episodes of the Simpsons followed by two episodes of Cheers sounded like Heaven. We just really liked the Simpsons and Cheers.

Now that you mention it I do have a few Simpsons talking action figures. My favorite one is Stephen Hawkins complete in his heli-wheelchair. It just seems so incongruous that they finally got all the way to Stephen Hawkins in the toy line.

I've got a Mr. Sparkle t-shirt that never fails to get compliments. Or odd stares. I also have a McFarlane diaroma ("Diaroma-rama, my favorite day!") of Good Homer and Evil Homer, Angel and Devil, that always brings a smile to my face thinking about Homer vs. the Snakes. Just that look on Lisa's face as she realizes…

Did anyone else just enjoy the second movie as a return to characters and situations they grew up with? I burned out on regular X-Files viewing after the first movie due to college and work and just heard vague impressions of everything from my superfan sister. So it was just nice to see the characters I like solve a…

If you check Target they routinely have 2 for 1 season box sets of Angel for 20 bucks. That's how I got 4 seasons for the price of 1.

I've heard rumblings that the original plot did feature something with being able to take matter off the Holodeck so the piece of paper coming out was a plot point. However this led to Picard having to lie to Moriarty and Roddenberry didn't want his heroes lying even to save their ship so the last act was changed and…