Intentional, but in a context where it was equally critical that it never happened. Not because they're intrinsically platonic, but because it was so central to making Mulder and Scully work that they were severely damaged individuals who weren't even capable of a normal friendship, let alone a healthy relationship…

I'm not even going to google it to rule 34 you on this one. Both because we both know that it almost certainly is a thing, and I don't want to start mixing up my Sherlock universes.

Surely 'A giant gun filled with drugs' is central to both the 'plot-focused' and 'character-focused' interpretations of the 'vital episodes'.

Technically Michelson is either the Godfather or Eliot Ness (in the mythological 'the untouchables' version of the story) or a young pre-corruption still-idealistic (but already an asshole to his enemies, and already with an unofficial policy of 'no investigation into any cop who shoots a gangster, even if unarmed') …

He SHOULD have been great. He PLAYED it great. But the script let him down. From day one he completely sold the idea of this ultra-cunning super-tactical badass who was a legitimate threat to even the most powerful of supers. They should never have made him into 'yet another Syler bait' - how frraeaken awesome would…

He SHOULD have been great. He PLAYED it great. But the script let him down. From day one he completely sold the idea of this ultra-cunning super-tactical badass who was a legitimate threat to even the most powerful of supers. They should never have made him into 'yet another Syler bait' - how frraeaken awesome would…

Wait….it's been over a decade since I last watched the Simpsons, but wasn't Edna dating Seymour Skinner?

A lame name for an evil organisation? You've never seen 'the Human Centipede', I take it.

I was watching Farscape the other day - pretty much the last show I'd ever expect to remind me of current GOP politics. Then I got up to the 3rd season episode where the neural clone, realising that it's about to die, takes over Crichton's body in an attempt to provoke the others into shooting both of them in a…

Most characters of this kind only work as side-characters. Once you make them the focus of a show, you need to make them psychologically plausible, which means that you can't just present them as 'the bad boy' / 'the noble guy' anymore.

As a kid, did you ever have that experience when your parents got you all hyped up to go see your favourite cartoon character, but when you got there you realised it was just some creepy dude in a costume?

And yes, I did have the same reaction when Judas Priest released the single 'Breaking the Law' back in the 80s. I knew it was supposed to be about wild law-breaking rebellion, but I couldn't help but wonder whether they were including handicapped parking regulations.

Dredd 2: I AM THE COUNCIL BY-LAWS!!!

I remember an interview a couple of decades back, when C+H was really taking off and the fanbase had decided, on the basis of pop-psychology (as fanbases tend to do, always thinking that an author's work gives them special insight into the author's character), that Calvin must either be based on Watterson's son (they…

We sent you Anna Paquin as a revenge attack for decades of US shows/films mangling the NZ/Australian accent.

There is one striking feature of the past few years of tv that do set it apart from previous eras. That TV has finally started making serious profits of the back of film's slanting towards the teenage market segment and its disdain for middle-aged female stars (or older male stars). Current tv screens are filled with…

Isn't that what happens (after much angst)? Keep in mind that Spacey has been goading Pitt the whole time about how great he is, and Pitt's argument (very conving to that point, still viable at the end of the movie for that matter) is that Spacey's point has failed because he's a nobody serial killer ina  city full of…

Like most gay sex scenes on tv, if they do it will be shot and marketed almost solely towards hetero members of the opposite sex. Queer as Folk was a case in point (though also a rare example of a show where the Canadian/US remake was actually more oriented towards gay viewers than the cliche-ridden,…

In fairness, so long as it's not restricted to infants, meningitis is an easy diagnosis (or at least, 'risk of meningitis, treat+test for it NOW' is an easy diagnosis). Initial flu/headache symptoms could mean anything, but the sudden upsurge in severity is such that you aren't going to mistake it for something…

If it arcs up towards the end of the season, doubles the show's quality for the final 2 episodes of season 1, then makes that the new 'normal' quality for the rest of its run, that would be a pretty good replica of Farscape. People forget how badly Farscape started, and just how suddenly it ramped up in quality.