I didn't really notice at the time, what with being, um, nine, but the mid-to-late '90s were just all about the head, weren't they?

I'd wondered if it was a device, and that maybe motion picture technologies had gotten stars to acknowledge their contribution to the medium. Like, John Laszlo had invented an influential lens, the Laszlo Panaflex, and maybe there'd be one down the way for the Edison Phonograph (I'm having difficulty of thinking of…

Was the first one the corpse of Smithers's father? No, wait! Homer's eye being sucked out by the lard vacuum!

That's nothing. I had very spirited conversations with someone who believed that since their kids went to private school, they shouldn't have to pay taxes for education.

Blanks are pretty dangerous. IIRC, safety rules for even light loads of gunpowder mean nothing can be within dozens of feet in front of the weapon. The more modern solution is to use compressed air charges that knock back the slide and give a realistic amount of recoil. I think I've read something about ones that even…

It seems like in the teaser of every episode, I play the "Are these the bad guys or SHIELD?" game. It's always a bit tough to tell the difference. Given that SHIELD wasn't always shown in the best light in the movies, I hope that they're going somewhere with that. The idea up-thread that the show is setting up…

The fact that they're actually developing a proper rapport between Skye and Ward makes me feel better. During the first two episodes when everyone here was talking about them being the designated couple before they'd actually demonstrated any chemistry was giving me Stargate: Universe flashbacks. Everyone was…

The best part is, it wasn't even Ward standing there like a goober that gave him away. That'd be a bit too self-aware. Captain Convictions had to get a text from Skye saying the blandly handsome athlete who's looking at him uncomfortably was bad news.

Femail carrier!

Why is the font so big and thin? Ironically, it seems much less readable, especially combined with the fact that I already have to tell the thing I want to keep reading past ten comments.

@stepped_pyramids:disqus Have we ever seen Vorta having a conversation? This might be the only time we see two Vorta even close to each other.

I remember on another forums someone was talking about how early Picard had such a bug up his ass about being French before they finally gave up on pretending their casting made sense, and using "defending the usage of the French language to Data or talking about the nobility of the order of the colors on the French…

I think the writers acknowledged that it never made any sense to have multiple PADDs for multiple documents (remember, they debuted in the mid-to-late '80s, well after personal computers were a thing), but it was good visual shorthand for "a lot of stuff." I remember there was a scene in Insurrection where Picard's…

I was terrified there was going to be a bait-and-switch right up until the credits ended and the blue "PG-13" screen came up, especially when part of the audio salad when her radio came on was a weather report for the American Midwest. I was worried she was going to have "landed" at her house in Lake Whatever in…

You know, come to think of it, I'm pretty sure Lisbeth Salander didn't go to school at all.

I finally got The Critic on DVD about a year ago, and I was deeply confused until I figured out that it had been on ABC for a year before it moved to Fox, so there was an entire season I had no knowledge of.

@avclub-154ff8944e6eac05d0675c95b5b8889d:disqus I'm pretty sure Sam's husband knew what he did for a living, even though he wasn't himself in the mob. One time, Willy asked them why they didn't have kids, and the husband said something about Sam's line of work not being good for a guy who's raising a family. Besides,…

@AmaltheaElanor:disqus Gaeta was actually bisexual. There was a series of webisodes ("The Face of the Enemy") that basically forms a bonus episode of season 4 that explains how Felix went from, "Eh, I guess Cylons are all right, so long as they aren't trying to kill me," to "Argh, we must kill all the Cylons and…

The stun trick actually happened in an episode of Enterprise, when they went to the Cowboy Planet (it was early days of them trying to incorporate more TOS tropes). A desperado was holding T'Pol at gunpoint as a shield, and Malcolm just shot her on stun, then gave the desperado a little shrug and shot him once she…

I just love how into it Sisko was.