So, did Whitney, the show on NBC, even once present an idea or point of view that was in any way different from what you might hear dozens of middle-of-the-pack, coked-out comedians offer up to audiences back in the 1980's?

Based on my fast and lazy internet searches, there appears to be no widespread agreement about the definition of "geek-baiting." Some people use the term as a more focused form of "flame-baiting," i.e. an online forum post which will incite geeks in particular to flame it. Others use it as a synonym for "geek…

It's a difference you can taste. Right now they're beggars who can't afford to be choosy. Once everything's in motion, they're going to want the very best.

This episode is a castle in the sky, but there's no foundation underneath it. Supernatural has a tendency to do this, especially when they flirt with ambitious* camera splits and angles and generally seem to be aiming to not be quite so "Supernatural-ly" about the production. That ambition seems to coincide with the…

Is there anyone who doesn't prefer Eowyn to Arwen, especially after the movies?

I understand your frustration, but the show has been, in the past, more successful in creating lived-in female characters whose personalities matched up with the feel of this particular fictional universe (the non-spoof episodes anyway.) The real problem is that it kept killing off all of its successes for varying…

They were working on a way to turn creativity into a hologram, but then they realized there were already plenty of ways to destroy it.

Or the particular type of disaster that occurs when you wear more than one on the same hand.

Eh, I laughed a few times. Laughing a few times over the course of 22 minutes is pretty good. And also, watching on-the-nose eviscerations of just how transparently sexist and racist television used to be was satisfying to me on a primal level.

The reviewer is spot-on. The final twist undercut 15 minutes of great television, and, as she mentioned, it was really the only good 15 minutes to come out of this very loose, ill-conceived, nonsensical plot that suddenly turned out to be Esther's. What about those council murders, eh? Not exactly a resounding…

I can't necessarily disagree with the specific points made in this review, but whenever TSC amps up the plot to a breakneck pace, the transitions from plot-induced stupidity to characters actually questioning things - and then back to the stupid again - give me whiplash.
It's one thing to have characters question what…

@avclub-e19801f9caf39bff8afc5e4548f2942d:disqus That's a great point generally, although in my personal view, "brutal" is fine as long as it's consensual (after all, one man's "brutal" is another man's "just right," and some people desire sex that meets their own definition of "brutal" - i.e., they enjoy the idea of…

This is clearly only the second-darkest timeline.

Well, at least according to all Serious, Respectable sources on the matter.

Hey, we're a 1st-World nation with sky-high rates of belief in invisible, all-powerful sky-fairies and skepticism of well-established scientific models like evolution.

If girls are doing things because it's "just something you do," then that is a social issue that exists independently of any one particular manifestation of a "thing" that is "just done."

It just *wasn't a thing* that was acceptable to talk about under any circumstances in your definition of "polite company," most likely.

Sadly, the assumption that most people are mental infants incapable of distinguishing fantasy from reality isn't exactly baseless, especially in America. What bothers me more - and what these filmmakers didn't succumb to, thankfully - is the knee-jerk assumption that censorship is the only way to dig ourselves out of…

It was illegal, but then they registered it as a religion.

"Bad" probably isn't the right word. "Nonessential" or "Irrelevant," perhaps. But yes, it appears as though my assessment of Train was flawed. Now there is even less that can be said about them that is good.