How, though? Isn't grass flamable?

I know, I know.

I've always thought the show would end when he was "old enough" for PB. Though that was back before FP and stuff.

Except she and Shoko didn't hook up after. But maybe they would've, if Shoko hadn't stolen the amulet and died. Who knows what PB meant by "two arm things".

There's a big part of me that thinks/hopes that when Finn loses his arm, it'll be PB who makes him a robotic one, and that'll bring them together.

I hope his reasons are a bit more substantive than that. Because logically speaking, I don't think anyone would've thought that "A Little Night Music" is necessarily an "improvement" on Bergman. The two can co-exist side-by-side, can't they? Granted, it may be a wee bit different when doing an adaptation of a really…

Didn't Sondheim say he wanted to do this as a musical, once? If he couldn't do it, maybe it's better off left alone…

This is turning out to be a nicely entertaining feature. The last one was about… what? "The Biggest Loser"? Here's hoping at some point we get to see a peek behind the curtains of "Pawn Stars" (because I just don't buy the shtick of "that expert just said your knick-knack can retail for $5,000 or more, but we've got…

Marry Martha. Fuck and kill Rose. And just pretend Donna doesn't exist, thanks very much.

Yeah, this. Moffat's timeline origami can be convoluted sometimes, but it's an essential addition to the evolution of the show.

I can't fault Moffat too much for the overly convenient personality of Clara. Just as Donna was a one-note special character stretched out to a season-long companion once Tate's schedule cleared up, Clara strikes me as a character created solely for one episode, utterly disposable until they accidentally cast the…

Tate's best moments for me, ironically, were all in "Turn Left", where she doesn't have Tennant to play off of, or the Doctor to be the world's biggest gushing fangirl for. On her own, I can appreciate how some of her more abrasive qualities are there to flesh out the life of a woman stuck in any number of domestic…

Donna's a stronger character than Rose, I'll admit, and Tate a somewhat better performer than Piper. She can do subtle a whole lot better, when the material calls for it. Problem is, she also is perfectly capable of turning into an absolute clown and encouraging the absolute worst in Davies' "write to character,…

I suppose here I'm just talking about her vocal register. It's high, irritating and done no favors by her mockney accent. It may very well be that I just don't like Billie Piper, but casting is as much a part of the showrunner's job as writing, and in many ways more integral to character creation. Part of the reason…

I like all of Moffat's companions quite a bit. Clara is a little too sacharine, I'll admit, but it's not as distracting as Rose or Donna's louder characteristics. Amy's probably the strongest character he's written, Rory being a fun companion to her companion, though something of an all-too-easy clueless husband type.

Moffat. Does Davies have a talent at writing for character? Sure. But that matters fuck all if the characters you create are shrill, garish, annoying-as-hell caricatures the way Rose and Donna Noble are.

"Doonesbury", maybe even "Bloom County" at its best moments, are both strips I'd think of just a hair before "Calvin & Hobbes". But I'm more of a political comics reader. I love Watterson's long stories and artwork, but Trudeau and Breathed have more impact for me.

I think you mean "that's nepotism".

I dunno, I just think a superhero best known for his uber-liberal politics and blasting a Reaganite Superman with a kryptonite arrow as an aged one-armed hippie isn't really quite the right source material for a hunky superhero show.

Part of me would like to agree with this statement, but the CW's unfettered genre qualities are kinda undercut by their addiction to pretty pretty people at the expense of the stories they're telling. That's how we get a version of "Beauty and the Beast" that's less Ron Perlman in a lion-man costume and more "ouch, I…