Pull the string!

Yeah. Hell, I find that for some shows (BSG, especially), streaming gives me a better picture than (non-blu-ray) discs. I remember watching Dexter, which had the first two seasons streamed, and 3rd on disc-only. The difference in video quality was dramatic, and much worse.

Ouch.

Yeah, and when you accept that she's living in a universe where that's true, it makes her idea she can use that to move back to detective just mind-bogglingly stupid. I assume she's learn that, but it makes her seem so, so very stupid. In a better show, maybe they could show how her family's attitude is the same, as,…

The nonsequitors are usually more entertaining than an actual trolled thread (a la Garfield Without Garfield) and a good sign you can freely skip it anyway. A troll without an audience is a sad troll, and the fewer responses they get, the less fun they have at any specific forum. Even the densest trolls eventually…

Honestly, the kid-sex stuff never really made an impact on me, and when I think of the books, it just doesn't come up. Even when I try to think of examples, I dunno… maybe I blocked it out, maybe I don't care enough to remember, but people (who often sound like people who haven't actually read them) talk like there's…

"a painfully shy reporter" Huh?
How exactly does such a person get that job? I assume she commutes to work with the legally-blind fighter pilot and the clumsy Clouseau-esque heart surgeon?

I just assumed that Southerners care a lot more about the civil war than the Northerners, who assume it's just dry history and ignore it like anything else more than 15 years old. So to sell it to the people you care, you put of them in front, like those movies where the pretty white girl is the main character so…

One whiff and you're south of the border!

Overexposure makes something bad… how?
The Eagles seem like a great example of how something becomes hated simply because it's popular. People often use overexposure as a reason to dislike or even hate something, even though it's utterly disconnected from any intrinsic value of the item. And even more - things are…

The Deadly Assassin?
That just grates on me, like the guy was an assassin and that was cool, we were going to maybe go get some chips while he didn't do anything, but… *deadly* assassin? That's a completely different matter all together!

Well, when you spend as much time as you have to to make a doc, you're eventually going to find yourself liking some people more than others, totally separate from the story you're after. I mean, in Dig, I have no problem believing that Taylor-Taylor would be a much better person to hang out with over long periods of…

I dunno; the idea that this huge mystery is just a minor detail that leads nowhere is actually kind of appealing. One more Dead Ned stubbornness that caused him big problems at home for no good reason other than a misplaced sense of honor seems perfectly in character.

Why bother with the super-hero stuff at all?
I mean, you can have it during the last 5 minutes or so as a payoff, but it seems like you can save a lot of money and probably sell a lot of the same tickets by making a 2-hour Hallmark Moment story of a put-upon (but still fit, clever and attractive) young man who gets…

I thought of the gravity problems, too, but then realized that this was a Sundance darling, and probably thinks name-dropping some official science guys counts as research. She is pretty though.

The idea that confidence in a lack of an undemonstrated thing requires as much as faith as believing in it is comical, if only because it works just as well as for Bigfoot, leprechauns or unicorns. Just because you can't logically prove a negative doesn't make all possibilities equally likely. It's just an excuse for…

The problem is its more big tent crap. Not all vices are equal, and some only affect you while others affect those around you whether they like it or not. Making them all the same in the name of "fun" or "freedom" is ridiculous and incredibly misleading. You want to sit on the porch naked pounding down whiskey? Knock…

So is this O'Neal, or the cleverly-timed…
Zombie O'Neal?

Tried to watch Wind That Shakes the Barley, but found the accents impenetrable (hopefully the disc version has English subtitles). Still catching up on Breaking Bad S3, watched some Star Trek TNG and X-Files S4.

The link of that Maiden song brings back scary, scary memories
http://www.youtube.com/watc…