I can't explain why I like Becky. I shouldn't, but I love the earnest pluck with which Emily Perkins plays her.

I know I'm in the minority, but it didn't do anything for me. It wasn't terrible, but I think "The Real Ghostbusters" was more than adequate as a salute to the fans: fans can be nutty and excessive, sure, but people need a little escapism in their lives, and sometimes it may even prod them into their own little acts…

I think I'll wait for the dark, edgy Peter Rabbit reboot instead.

To say nothing of it also being "grounded."

Why bother with Southern accents at all? New Orleanians sound more like New Yorkers than they do other Southerners.

"Gumbo party" has become something of an in-joke among New Orleanians to refer to NCIS's awkward attempts to shoe-horn local color — often incorrectly — into the show. I think "crawfish boil" is what they should have aimed for.

That was always my take on it, since the speaker/narrator mentions looking down at his shoes, which I doubt he'd be wearing if he was on his deathbed. Plus the imagery sounds more like it's coming from somebody sitting in a waiting room: vending machines, year-old magazines, and whatnot.

I have Siddig El Fadil's autograph (from the early days of DS9 before he changed his stage name to Alexander Siddig) and a copy of Hunters and Gatherers autographed by Francine Prose. I had Peter Davison's autograph at one time, but it's on an unimpressive torn-out page of a blank book. He was making an appearance at…

It's even funnier that Demon Dean, who seems to be too strong even for Crowley to control, has absolutely no ambitions beyond booze, bad karaoke, and banging cocktail waitresses. I don't think he was even evil so much as amoral.

Dean is quite well-preserved for someone with a terrible diet, intermittent borderline alcoholism, and lousy sleep habits. Spending 8+ hours a day in a car should have made him morbidly obsese, but I suppose it's offset by all the gravedigging and brawling.

I'll take any excuse for more Cain. I'm smitten.

True, but it wasn't until the end of second season that I bothered to notice it, well after he'd been established as a funny, complex character.

I wish they had doubled down on the Men of Letters, but it's still not too late. I have this mounting dread that they're going to bungle the Mark of Cain arc somehow. The inconsistencies are already rearing their ugly heads.

Lots of actors who went on to do BSG were also on Dark Angel. If you watch enough genre shows filmed in Vancouver, you start to recognize the same couple dozen actors in everything.

Surely they could have afforded a spartan yet sinister office like Naomi's but in red tones instead of blue. That would perfect for the king of infernal bureaucrats.

More like an X Files descendant. It finds its legs pretty fast; if the S1 cliffhanger doesn't grab you, then it probably wasn't meant to be.

I think the thing I love most about Supernatural is that it's completely unoriginal. By "unoriginal" I simply mean that all of its source material comes from somewhere else: urban legends, horror movies, the Bible, comic books, earlier genre shows, etc. And at its best the writing is tight, the jokes land squarely…

Makes sense. I always liked the Hunters Hunted rulebook, even if everyone I played with thought it was ancillary.

I've always had a deep, abiding love for that song, even if the rest of Asia's output is weak. As a little cub in the early '80s, I used to get excited whenever the video came on MTV.

SPN has done some brilliant meta episodes, but lately it's degenerated into a lazy lampshading technique for writers who can't be bothered to come up with solid plots and characterizations. Last season's "Meta Fiction" was just awful and pointless. The fact that they used a callback to the Trickster (and by extension…