I prefer Dollhouse to Firefly. Firefly is more fun, but Dollhouse is smarter, and the best characters and themes are already deeper.

Am I helping if I watch the Summer Glau episode twice?

All this somewhat undermined by the desktop Echo thing they advertise in the breaks, which is only about a quarter step classier than those desktop stripper apps.

Especially brilliant was the way wardrobeTopher sees his job as the real work of art, and Topher's as trivial. Something there about how much of our perception of other people's personalities is based purely on looks.

More than that, it had some great things to say to the viewer. We're fed the argument that women exercising their sexuality is a form of power, perhaps the core point of post-feminist "empowerment," but it's simultaneously subverted by the context - the professor making this argument is clearly just trying to make…

America doesn't even have any village greens to preserve!

Also, Pink Floyd, Zepplin and The Who.

John Cale was Welsh.

Yup. I don't have anything to say, but absolutely.

Lead singer of the Monkees was a Brit.

Anyone seen that fantastic BBC interview of some British tween where she explains that the Bay City Rollers are clearly better than The Beatles because the Bay City Rollers have a tartan gimmick, and the Beatles lack any such tartan gimmick.

Yeah, I thought about Miles but since the Quintet with Coletrane doesn't really have a name I decided it wouldn't count. Or something. In general, it's really bizarre that jazz hasn't been mentioned since rock and roll is merely a minor sub-genre. And, y'know, America.

My choices
The Velvet Underground (although Cale was Welsh, so that only half counts)

I was surprised by that too. Apart from the obvious Cobain/Lennon comparison, they certainly were huge and defining.

Her argument was that the Beatles were so huge in America, and spent so much time here, that they count as the biggest band in both countries.

I love hip hop, especially from that era, and I find the Beastie Boys to be "meh".

My wife's response:
"The Beatles"

For me, two pseudo is about the same as a cup of coffee.

In general, I think the tension between Lightman as a father and Lightman as un-lie-able-to is the most interesting part of the show, long term. Last season his daughter and him had some excellent scenes.

Just noticed your covering this
I'm glad.