He's posted some non-paid-for stories, ie fanfic, on his blog, like a Narnia story about the girl that stayed behind on Earth and a good short about what happens after the Doctor's final death before he wrote for the show.

What, did a hologram do your mom?

Don't recall the controversy, but Running For Honor was good in that Al starts off pretty phobic but the events make him rethink his beliefs without being all "Now I love the gays!" easy.

The one with Marilyn Monroe was worth it just for Al practically declaring Sam God for doing her.

Yeah, I bought the Daria DVD as a show of support, but I'm glad I tracked down all the uncut, unaltered episodes through "other means".

I think it's in the "Also see" section, but yeah, however corny "Evil Leapers working for Satan" is it's worth it for that episode and Satan!Stockwell's creepiness.

The one where he reunited with his wife thanks to a (likely divine) lightning bolt-aided switch with Al ended with him finishing Al's leap's purpose despite it being several years before his birth.

Sam Beckett also leapt into a gay man who had to prevent a suburban teen and her boyfriend from being framed for the murder of her father by the boyfriend's abusive closeted dad.

I'm certain at the end the girl reporter died but they got her pictures back which included a POW camp, and Sam is shocked to see it was Al's, apologizing before Al reassures him.

@avclub-5dc978b30969d0ba612c37bb0543eafb:disqus Agree it was funny but it was also a classic example of wasting a perfectly good plot - hype up a TNG reunion, then reduce
it to a subplot so born-again Meg can persecute atheist Brian. That episode ended my short time as an apologist.

There were rumors around that time Stewart's contract was up and if he left Picard would die (though I could've seen them just having him retire to recuperate), so I went in watching the conclusion with some doubt despite being pretty savvy about tropes even that young.

Another reason it's happening so fast is that, according to Millar (so grain of salt), Vaughn dropped out of the next X-Men because there's some rip-off projects trying to beat them to the gate.

It was okay, but I rule that to being a hardcore fan. This is probably how it would happen with some competent people in charge (ie no one running MTV today), and I'd be okay with it despite my disappointment,

There was a good two-fer of intentionally bad movie scripts (basically What If Daria was a typical Hollywood teen movie + what if the sequel was a Scream-type parody of horror films) that had Ian Ziering as Beavis and Pauly Shore as Butthead.

I liked despite thinking their Jane was okay. Still, to go back 10-15 years and cast Christina Ricci…

Yeah, that's why I never invested much ind the Daria/Trent ship even before I got involved in fandom and because I recognized what he was - that first super-crush you think you're fated to end up with despite how smart you are otherwise but years later wonder what you were thinking.

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus Agreed on Mack in general, but I think they also kept changing his voice actor so "getting a handle" seems to also
have been an issue. While I liked the show till the end I think he'd have been a better love interest for Daria than Tom or Trent. But this is MTV, the…

I had this idea years ago - not that it's worth bragging because it's a no-brainer (GET IT?! Daria's a brain and… I'll stop) but my premise was Daria's writing for a HuffPost ersatz run by Stephen Colbert (Daria creator Glenn Eichler was one of his first writers on his spin-off and contributed to the classic White…

Because Peter David was the smartest guy in the room at the time* and even then he only suggested it as a joke.

I felt the same way about that tease of a lesbian scene in Jennifer's Body.