I love Titus and I agree that Lillian works better as a side character (no one on earth does one-liners better than her) but the plot they gave her this season was an improvement over last season's.

I get that. Ultimately it's like arguing with a slasher movie character who decides to take a walk in the woods even though he or she knows there's a killer on the loose. Yes, it's silly, but coming up with a plausible reason for them to do it only delays the inevitable.

There was also a brief period where the Second Doctor had three companions (Polly, Ben, and Jamie - possibly the best-looking TARDIS crew ever). I actually like the four person model, which allows you to pair off a companion with the Doctor and two with each other (something they did with the First Doctor a lot).

No one in the whole Alien franchise believes in helmets or proper quarantine procedures if it's convenient to advancing the plot. Makes you wonder how we managed to get that far out in space to begin with.

I think the "humble-ish" is the key part there. The Doctor isn't a humble guy. He's just usually kept in check by the threats facing him or by the relationship with his companions. Stories where his arrogance gets out of bounds are interesting for that reason (that's one reason I think "Waters of Mars" is the best…

The end was really good - a catastrophic combination of Bill's compassion and the Doctor's hubris - and some of the acting was terrific but there was an awful lot of filler before we got there. Not the lab stuff - that was a nice, creepy acknowledgment that a normal work day could turn into doomsday. I'm talking…

The makers of the original film were phenomenally lucky to find an actor who could not only dance but who somehow managed to make an insufferable jackass cliche of a character seem charming. The makers of the remake did not have that luck.

And a certain percentage of the men, too. Not that I'm speaking from experience (I am).

Gene Kelly somehow made tap-dancing on a newspaper in Summer Stock seem cool and sexy.

I recently rewatched Xanadu (first time doing it without playing a drinking game alongside) and it is such a pointless waste of Kelly's talent except for that one great scene where he dances with Newton John.

There was a really good American Experience doc about Marsh and Cope a few years back. I'll probably just rewatch that, since the posthumously published Crichton stuff has been pretty dire.

I can't quite believe I'm saying this but I wish they had gone full-on Treehouse of Horrors-style crazy with this premise. It's so ridiculously broad and goofy as a story - really, Springfield gets taken over by suddenly feral dogs? - that pushing it into deliberate craziness might have worked better. There were…

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I love Kimmy's eternal, hard-won optimism, which is what makes her mid-season moment of doubt about Titus and their friendship so sad. It makes sense to me that part of her crisis of confidence (and faith) is questioning whether their dynamic actually works and it's touching partly because she almost never…

The campus culture stuff seemed pretty muddled to me. Kimmy's teammates are presented as ludicrously hypersensitive and politically correct in a way that's obviously meant to be ridiculous - and yet they're also presented as caring people who genuinely like her, so it at least seems to be coming from a sympathetic…

I liked Titus and Mikey but that was a remarkably mature, sweet way to end a sitcom relationship on an intentionally silly show. It was nice that it really wasn't either person's fault - they're just at different places in their lives.

"Fantastic Lies". That was a really good 30 for 30.

Fassbender is really good in it. If nothing else his David and Walter are great additions to the ranks of Ash and Bishop.

I haven't seen Cold in July yet but I put it on my list after watching this.

Yeah, rewatching the entirety of Twin Peaks Season 2 for the first time since it aired in preparation for the new ones. There's so much stuff in the middle of Season 2 that is just bad, though it gets better towards the very end.

Went and saw Alien: Covenant. I feel pretty mixed on this one. Loved the first act (essentially everything up until SPOILER shows back up), thought the second act got massively bogged down in Prometheus stuff, and felt the third act was decent but pretty much a retread of the endings of Alien and Aliens (other than…