Ninja Warrior was the single best reason to watch G4. 

None of the time stuff really makes sense here, which undermines the pathos pretty badly.

None of the time stuff really makes sense here, which undermines the pathos pretty badly.

In Sally's much-talked-about hotness (which is utterly undermined by, you know, actually looking at Sally) we have the first instance of Sorkin's "tell but fail to show" issue, as later demonstrated to disasterous effect in Studio 60.

In Sally's much-talked-about hotness (which is utterly undermined by, you know, actually looking at Sally) we have the first instance of Sorkin's "tell but fail to show" issue, as later demonstrated to disasterous effect in Studio 60.

Voyage of the Damned may have sucked, but it never reached a point where I had to turn it off because I wanted to murder everyone on screen. The mother and the son in this thing were, seriously, some of the most annoying characters I've ever seen on a television screen. I found myself rooting for the acid rain.

Two Xmas episodes, both painfully saccharine, both full of unsympathetic, uninteresting, annoying characters. I miss RTD's approach to these, this "very special holiday Dr. Who" crap doesn't work for me.

I suppose I should have said "doesn't do anything all that bad as dark Willow." It's somewhat ironic that one of Willow's more significant immoral actions occurred when she was still nominally in her right mind.

"irredeemable prick"

"horrible atrocity?"
One of the problems with this finale is that Willow never actually does anything all that bad. I've always thought season 7 in general, and Willow's character in particular, might have been a lot more interesting if she'd followed through on turning Dawn back into energy…

Are tagalongs really that great?
Yes. Yes they are.

Oh right…
I'd been meaning to make a donation to my local affiliate. Thanks for reminding me, tea baggers!

Qpid is fun, Drumhead is excellent, the only real dud in late 4th is "The Host." TNG (and probably Star Trek in general) should really stay away from non-comic romance plots, it sucks at them.

It's definitely a mixed bag. Parts of it are very funny and/or very clever, but it keeps veering into sappy and stupid in equal measure, and the logical issues in the context of the rest of the series are hard to ignore.

The problem, more than one of continuity, is one of "why doesn't the Doctor just go back and change the personality of anyone that causes him problems in any other episode?" If this works, it creates several dozen plot holes in previous episodes. I'm not normally one to get hung up on minor continuity points, but that…

"Gay now"
The way Willow's abrupt homosexuality is handled in this show always did bug the crap out of me, and it's pretty much summed up by that line. What she seems to be saying is "well, I found him attractive before, but now I've decided I'm gay so I don't!" It doesn't work that way.

So when Hulu inevitably fails under this model…
will it "train" the network executives that their old revenue models will not work anymore?

Wow
That's a fairly spectacular waste of talent.

I'm glad someone else saw the original Superbowl commercial as deeply stereotypical and unwittingly hostile towards guys. I'll add that this "parody," which is really just an inversion of the original (and every bit as sexist and hateful for it), manages to be reasonably insulting towards women as well. After all,…

That's understandable, it IS a different show, even if by the same creators. I would point out in my own defense that BSG was brought up as a reason why the show should have better ratings, so I simply provided one of the key reasons BSG may not be an asset to the new show.