I agree.  I was considering watching it on DVD.  The Tinsel Monsters disintegrate people they walk past, which was pretty unnerving in the trailers.  Also, it looked like the movie had the kids slowly figuring out interesting methods to defend themselves.  Oh well.

I was wondering the same thing… but I'm pretty sure it's the right avatar name.  Hmmm.

Dammit.  I've always wanted to have a job that required wearing a fedora with "PRESS" written on the side of it, but I've already come out in favor of raisins!  Story of my life.

I liked Raisin Bran a lot better when the raisins were covered in sugar.  Then in the mid-80's somebody pointed out it wasn't healthy, and Post and Kellog's immediately took all that sugary deliciousness out.  Motherfuckers.

"The Moffatt era has been about bringing The Doctor, Amy, and Rory closer
and closer until, by this point, they’ve formed a makeshift family.
It’s going to take a big story to pry them apart."

I suppose because jazz trios like to just get together and jam?

Nicely said, Todd; this article does a great job of encapsulating why I love this Christmas special even though I'm basically an agnostic.  Great article.

If I'm not mistaken, they open the door and encounter a bipedal shark dressed in a suit, and his two bodyguards.  They're after Spike for something.  I think Spike owes the shark monster a bunch of kittens (seriously). 

@avclub-7068569fe48c089491a567683f0859e0:disqus, agreed and agreed.

"Ma Otter especially barely looks better than a sock puppet."

@avclub-188934b799f9c866379dd96bc600a688:disqus : No I didn't.  No idea what you're talking about.

"Disaronno: The Official Drink of USA Network's Royal Pains."

Nicely done, sir.

I want to like Tintin, really.  I mean, I loved Raiders, and that's an homage to serialized adventure tales that are just as old as the Tintin character.  But I can't. He's a teenage Belgian reporter wearing a blue sweater and hair that sticks straight up, who weighs at most 105.  It looks like he'd double over and…

Me too, Scrubbers; me too.  I was 8 and I remember counting the days to when this was going to be on.  It just had to be good; there was just no way  the characters and situations from the greatest film I had ever seen could exist in something shitty.  And then… "dashed expectations" doesn't even come close

Absolutely.  This was an incredibly good piece.  I can't identify the best part, but "I miss thinking television was that kind of cool. Not just entertaining
or artistic or moving, but a device through which you could change the
world, if you only paid enough attention," is right up there. I remember this exact…

I hate posts where I have to admit I'm a total sap, but I think the season finale will be Shawn proposing to Jules and Jules saying "no," thereby resulting in a separation for season 7.  (Or the season ending without a response from Jules, and then next season we find out it was "no," thereby resetting the characters…

"This is no cave…"

Yes!  They've been running ads for it for so long that it seems like it came out in mid-November.  Sheesh.

I was about to post this, but Nephew beat me to it.  Nicely done, sir.