@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus I can't be too down on the X-Files episode, because it did have that little exchange where Matheson snarks to Gideon about how no good deed goes unpunished.

Good to see that on the DVDs, the ramming ship name was changed to the Churchill—when it aired, it was the Alexander that seemed to be destroyed.

Yewll told Black Jonah that both artifacts were hidden in Irissa so they'd stop tossing her office looking for the gold one that they knew the old Mayor had found.

I think it was just a rushed green-screen shot. Maybe it was a pick-up done late in the process. I noticed earlier in the episode some obvious looped in dialogue from Nolan after he broke Irisa out of the medical tent. They're sneaking along, his back to the camera, out of focus, and he says in a clear, non-whispering…

Amanda could always take over the Need/Want. Keep it in the family, and it'd give her a place where she could lead a resistance against the E-Rep occupation. No one's going to be too suspicious of a wide variety of people going into a bar/brothel at all hours.

@avclub-b7345a96d3fbcd3746d624805f429852:disqus My favorite was the third season of Archer, where the network and the producers themselves were confused about whether or not the three-part inter-season miniseries counted as part of the 13-episode season order. At least Dollhouse's bonus episode was a fairly…

@avclub-ebdc2641087b2d7a02c4b42ae0d63e07:disqus It wasn't an artistic choice. No one went into it thinking, "Hey, let's replace the lead in the second season premiere, that'll really show the audience we aren't screwing around." It was O'Hare's personal situation that prompted it, not any creative impulse.

I only know Game of Thrones by reputation, and I thought there were good odds Nolan would stay dead. Babylon 5 got rid of their lead after one season, albeit accidentally and not as a writerly gambit. Lost would've gotten rid of their lead after one episode, if they hadn't changed their mind. These things have been…

The writers do a good job of saying that Corben just really misses having sex without being too obvious about it.

@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus That's an urban legend, so probably not.

I missed most of the STAS finale when I was a kid when it was on TV (I think I only ever saw the end with the slaves refusing to revolt. It's all I remember). I remember seeing something on a wiki mentioning that Dr. Hamilton was an enemy of Superman in Justice League, and thinking that didn't make any sense.

@avclub-146bc30c345d31f3468fec764a1970e1:disqus @avclub-bbb04f2a70775131fa0397bbdb4c03de:disqus In one of JMS's short stories, it was revealed that Earth was still slipping Shadowtech into their new ships after Clarke was out of power, even if it wasn't as overt as the Advanced Destroyer Group with their Shadow-armor…

@avclub-7224d4068a5dd6666b8e62fbe047451e:disqus That seems like a writer's shortcut, or even a network note (or a Pavlovian response to getting network notes in the past). I imagine it probably went a little… like this:

@avclub-a7894649f023b61a850c178d9870aee1:disqus JMS's posts from the time (and, you know, the actors shooting their mouthes off since then) indicate that Boxlightner and Doyle were big-time republicans and tended to dominate the lunch-table discussions on issues of the day, and that no one stood up to them until this…

The problem wasn't so much the trouble with the eggs, its that there were more expensive things that could be shipped with less weight in the same volume (or less volume in the same weight). If you're a freighter captain, are you going to carry a dozen eggs you can sell for .5 credits an ounce, or a brick of spoo that…

As this never happened and was hinted at in a few things, it's canonicity is unclear, but that "canonicity" being a term people actually use might be a problem in and of itself.

The movie is ambiguous on those points (I personally assume Lois knows about Clark, if not for the whole movie then certainly by the end, and that Richard knows Lois was already pregnant, if not by whom, but everyone else believes Richard is the father). Of course, if Lois knew about Clark for the whole movie, it…

@avclub-97d6c074b974838257db17a02f8784c4:disqus I'm not sure where you're getting this from. The last line of the movie is Superman saying to Lois and Jason, "I'm always around." He knows where the kid lives, he's based in the same town, and he sees Jason's parents every day at work. He's not going to be the kid's…

@avclub-cc225865b743ecc91c4743259813f604:disqus Well, unless we count Superman II.

It doesn't. For one thing, IIRC the Donnor cut has Superman destroy the Fortress of Solitude at the end, and it definitely ends with Superman doing the "go back in time and prevent everything from happening" thing, so Lois wouldn't be pregnant.