I don't dislike Kevin Smith, but he really needs to look at the other directors that say "Critics are stupid!" and see if that's who he wants to be.

Stay frosty guys, we survived the end of Battlestar Galactica, we can survive this!

As much flak "Lost" is given, I have difficulty forgiving "X-Files" for revealing eventually that Chris Carter didn't have an actual story to tell.

I got more of an impression that MIB is more of a 'guard' and the 'evil' that the Island is corking is something else.

"Lost" already hasn't ended up like "X-Files". All I ask now is that it doesn't end like "Battlestar Galactica". That's it.

The implication seems to be that Alvar Hanso learned of the island following his ancestor's trail.
Here's my question - how did the US Army stumble across it? Since Alvar was a weapons manufacturer in WWII, did he assist the US military in finding the Island?

Jorge sold me on Lost back in S1 - he's the "comic relief guy" without a backstory, until "Numbers". When Rousseau is pointing the gun at him and Hurley is so pissed and anguished that he doesn't care - great stuff.

"Slavery was abolished in America in 1865".

Female dwarves were somewhat rare. While they looked (to humans) somewhat identical to the males, the dwarven birthrate is so low that they wouldn't really let them go off on an adventure where they could be killed.
IIRC, the only female dwarf ever named in Tolkien is Thorin's sister, in one of the LOTR's appendices.

Actually, Bilbo discovers Smaug's weak spot, and the info was passed onto the ravens which in turn told Brand, IIRC.

All I can recall is that every damn English book in middle school seemed to be a 'coming-of-age story set around WWII'.

Christopher Tolkien's series is really about the writing and evolution of Middle Earth over his father's lifetime. It's a scholarly technical work, but it's fascinating if you want to know how LotR came about - and if you're interested in writing, there's a lot of insight on the process.
And it's somewhat amusing…

Alcoholic Synonymous, not you.

You should probably avoid seeing any Andy Kaufman routine as well. It'd just make you mad, apparently.

Colin Quinn probably owes Jerry, right? Have him made a 'permanent' judge. Comedy gold right there!

So your point is… what? All politicians use writers and teleprompters?
That we have to, I don't know, see if we disagree with their tenets and beliefs, investigate what they've actually done, and ignore meaningless sound bites and catchphrases? Gosh, that would be something, wouldn't it?

Or find a woman who enjoys video games?

"Tapper" was installed at the arcade at the mall and the local Showbiz Pizza. Budweiser can claim it was 'intended' for adult locations all they want.
I would think that the game actually created a generation of bartenders.

But stereotypes mean you don't have to think, it's so much easier that way…

The greatest kid's arcade game ever
Is, and always will be, "Tapper" - a game sponsored by Budweiser, featuring their logos and theme music, where you play a bartender serving beer to people, who kill you if you don't do it fast enough.