But that's the whole point, that he's not as smart as he thinks he is because he's walled off so many potential aspects of his life to fuel the intellectual disciplines that interest him.

Yeah, but she can't risk him going to Bridget and asking about her sister. You'll notice her first instinct was to pretend to be Bridget pretending to be her and trying the whole "we'll talk about this later" thing.

I'm curious to see how much Bridget is able to put together the nuggets of information she learned from meeting Tyler. Namely, that her sister is actually alive and up to something. The way this episode ended didn't give me much hope for that

We're getting to the point where a lot of criticism is being heaped on episodes based on questions the series as a whole has yet to answer but presumably will. Why is it this particular episode's fault for not answering it? Or the next one? Or the previous one? If the question raised at this point is answered later,…

I think Siobhan can't really play the sister angle because then she'd have to explain away just one heck of a coincidence, and Tyler probably wouldn't believe her anyway.

There are just some really lame plot holes in this one. The biggest, as mentioned elsewhere, is the (almost) complete lack of protection against an EMP. This is supposed to be 2149 and they don't know any better? Heck, in 2011 we've already had two Bond movies deal with the idea.

The fact that their Best Comedy list includes Bad Teacher but not Horrible Bosses tells you all you need to know … other than the bitter screed of the above report.

Didn't they say Taub's kids were girls?

"But Consuela doesn’t want to give him up, so Stewie pulls a gun out of
nowhere and starts shooting so they can walk out without a problem."

"A weekend in Phoenix with Optimus Prime."

So let me get this straight. You do a sketch early in the show in which Andy Samberg as the god Poseidon jokes about turning into a dolphin to visit Earth and have sex with a woman. And then later in the show you do a sketch centered on a dolphin and yet you don't do a joke connecting the two?

"Is this another one of your field scene characters?"
"It's Seinfeld!"

If you see the movie "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop" you wouldn't be able to say Conan isn't "really a performer."

Was this a review or a psychoanalysis paper?

""Home" was conceived as what they call a "backdoor pilot," in that
besides wrapping up S4, it's a sales pitch (pitched to the network) for
S5.  And, obviously, it worked."

That's technically correct, though I suspect Whedon stuck it into Fray after creating it with the intention to use it on the show. When Fray first came out there were some issues that had months between publication and the Scythe was introduced kind of out of nowhere in the 6th (of 8) issues, in March 2002, which I…

I like this show, but I'm not sure I like the mental breakdown angle. It seems like a gimmick that detracts from what could be a pure Machiavellian drama. I get that it sets up Kane's vulnerability, rekindling with his daughter and such, as well as gives the reporter a nugget to eventually discover. But I can't help…

Isn't this episode called "Swallow"? I thought "Listen" was the pilot.

The best scene has everyone standing outside the limo trying to work up the nerve to get into it, and when the door finally opens Lorne is already in there partying it up and complaining that the "evil limo" doesn't have enough ingredients for his cocktail

Voyager was never very consistent about those things. There's one episode ("Flashback, I think") where Tuvok has a mental breakdown and asks for Janeway's help, and she wonders why he doesn't ask one of the other Vulcans on board (plural, meaning more than one other Vulcan). Then in a later episode all the telepaths…