And he fought Freddie Krueger:-)

You know, we all just kind of assumed that you guys are talking about prostitution when you post this stuff, but thanks for making it more obvious this time.

It's a real pity though, because it's very clear that the author does NOT hold Ishmael's initial prejudices, and that Queegqueg is an intelligent, worldly guy. The part where he compares Ishmael's astonishment at his story about embarrassing himself by improper use of a wheelbarrow, to his recollection of an explorer…

I think it might be unfair to lump stone cold villains and sadistic anti-heroes in the same category. Jigsaw gets a convenient pop psychological explanation in Saw because he's an anti-hero - for all the series faults, it is consistent in holding that the villainy rests in the various other characters moral…

I know it won't happen, but Matt Ryan's Constantine really deserves a spot on one of the CW's DC shows. The show was awful, but Ryan's portrayal of Constantine was consistently gold.

Wow - I'm so glad this show is getting coverage. I've been a fan of it here in Australia since it came out. Even over here it's a little late-night comedy-drama on the publicly funded (much-respected, little-watched) network. I had no idea it was even being shown in the US.

Who's my real dad, and why did the Stonemasons make Steve Gutternberg a star?

I'm wondering whether there isn't more scope for new stories in a post-zombie-apocalypse setting (instead of one during the zombie apocalypse). Where zombies have become a fact of life, and communities are starting to rebuild, entering conflicts that run deeper than 'psychopath governor wrecks the place'. Stories…

I wish more shows/films would go the 'Land of the Dead' route of replacing the 'infected -> OMG OMG OMG -> suicide' route with some recognition that everything turns banal eventually. I'm talking about the scene in LotD (set an unspecified, but presumably a few generations, after the dead start rising) where:
- one of…

True, you do get a larger cut working from home, but I really prefer the safety of having a pimp.

In fairness, he ends up in a sulking, self-pitying drunken funk because he's religious and discovers that there's no God. He didn't go there to meet 'aliens', he went there to meet gods - he goes into a suicidal funk when he realises that creating life isn't godlike, it's just a bunch of fallible beings who didn't…

My first thought was 'oh no, please please please PLEASE don't do an extended arc about 'the search for Claire Bennett'.

I'm surprised that, whenever people pick apart the plausibility of zombie apoc films, hardly anyone points out that zombies would be a really ineffective plague. Rate of spread, for any plague, is inverse to mortality (less opportunity to infect), and exponentially increased by length of 'infectious but no symptoms'…

Even with the effort to make it psychologically plausible, the compressed timeframe makes the soldiers' inability to control the zombies look woefully implausible.

No, by the rights of its citizens. You know - the things that govern how you actually get to live there.

In fairness, given both the way the scene was presented AND the classic show, it could be interpreted in two ways:

Actually, Cybermen are one thing they really haven't done much of in the classic style. In the best Cybermen stories, there WEREN'T Space Soviets (though that definitely came up, in the periods when they used them too often and ran out of ideas). The 'assimilate for assimilation's sake' is very much a nu-Who thing,…

"it makes me smile to feel that element of being part of a crowd - even if we're all separated in time and space"

Trust me, when my dream 'Conan the Barbarian starring Conan as Conan' film gets made, he'll be a superstar again.

Excellent article.