You can't come up with a scenario that makes sense?  Sounds like Stargate to me!  Boom!  *Drops mike*

Hey, I'm as glad as anyone that Hannibal didn't get canceled, but if it had, it would have been quite weird to lay it at Blacklist's feet.  I mean, it's not as if, without this, they wouldn't have had something else to replace it with.

While Hannibal is a lot better, I don't really get why people see there's some kind of conflict between the two shows.  Are they aired opposite each other, or something?  While I get that the concepts are somewhat similarly, it's a pretty vague similarity - and Hannibal didn't exactly invent the idea of a villain…

It was a missed opportunity to bring her back.  In fact I kind of felt the Ingrid character was basically a stand in for her.  I guess they just couldn't get Parker Posey in again.

MI6 is the UK's equivalent of the CIA.  MI5 is closer to the FBI, although there is no US agency that's really equivalent of MI5.

Australian music is so frustrating.  They've got The Birthday Party, but the band they get all excited about is AC/DC.

"Even with Michael Bublé’s stamp on the record, that Americans would embrace something like that—or would embrace the ridiculously British Williams in general—is almost laughable"

Dwight never quoted Hitler, just Mussolini.

Given how schizophrenic the Batman comics are it's basically impossible to be true to them.

@Evel: The Regandolatry began before he died, it was in full swing in 2001.

The irony is, LOST's redheaded stepchildren actually make it look kind of good in comparison.  Maybe that was the diabolical plan all along.

#realtalk

I'm not sure what that means, but it had the cadence of an insult.

Your mum is a classy lady.  You are lucky to have her.

You're right, LoF is actually not as axiomatic an example of this as, say, your average post-00s zombie story/film/fanfic/whatever.  I just call it the 'Lord of the Flies' hypothesis because it sounds snappy, to be honest.

Under the Fucking-Dome - now that's a show I'd pay to see.

Under the Dome is one of the few King books I've read, and while it wasn't great (it's probably in the top 50% of King books, but only just) it was better than this.  Partly because, while the way some characters acted was pretty stupid, it wasn't this especially hackneyed form of stupid.

You mean whatever work of pop culture is trending…

If only we could just get rid of all these politicians and have stalwart military types, with their patriotism and sound moral values, run things!  Say, they tried that in Argentina right, anybody have any idea how it worked out?  Pretty good I imagine.

This is the basic Lord of the Flies hypothesis, replicated again and again by writers who some easy cynicism.  It has two components.