The DVD special on puppetry is pretty good.  I don't know if it's on this disc, but you'd think they'd take a snarky ironic look at puppetry, but it's about the guy who geniunely loves it and sees it a dying art.

And The Haunting, which was a moody, atmospheric thriller directed with all the nuance and subtlety that the director of Speed could be expected to have at his disposal.

Could have been because, by that time, they knew they would have been forced to recast the young actress, and that never works very well. Or have her pull a Walt, and just hope we don't realize it.

Don't all young bri-ish males?

"You wouldn't know anything about that, would you?"

Wow.  That song was pretty funny.  I think the card strikes a little darker tone, because it's banged out on a typewriter instead of sung with funny answers.  That card is more what I imagine Crispin Glover writing.  Wait, he's weird but not as weird as he comes across. 

"Why didn't you tell me your car had a blind spot?"

The Monolith in 2001.  The book gives it a much clearer meaning (and I think it controls the monkeys' actions or something), but I'm glad I forgot.  It's better as just a symbol of how far behind a technologically advanced race.  We're as close to them as the monkeys were.

For me, that was answered pretty clearly in this episode, and is the only thing post-movie of the X-Files I still even regard as worthwhile.

Yeah, I never picked up on him as trying to kill himself.  The old man's speech talks about "being trapped in the host", and he's clearly trapped in the eyes of someone who will watch these two women be very happy. Good connection with Johnny Got His Gun, too.

Yeah, I watched it trying to see it through the Deckard-replicant viewpoint, and it's pretty shallow.  It seems like something they made up after the fact for it to even exist. 

I thought the whole point was it was a total fabrication.  All of the details were things he saw on the board behind him, and he's such a genius he can make it up on the spot.

There's a lot of things I don't like about Jedi (Harrison Ford could not care less, switching the British soldiers to American), but I don't mind the Ewoks.  In my mind, I really tell myself that they had massive losses, but still won.  It's like Black Hawk Down; yes, the Somalis did win and drive out the US forces,…

And where can I buy some of those "efficient finger pies" in "Penny Lane".  They sound positively revolting!

They should have seriously just ended the show after the fourth season.  I think they might have been planning it that way; I haven't read the producers' ideas, but it really would have ended nicely if only 7 survived and they were struggling with the reality that others died so that they might live.  That episode…

@avclub-33807fbc68d335db8080d3c10cb78822:disqus I can replace "psychic" with about 20 other characters or plotlines.

I saw it subtitled in Spanish, and they put "(Whispers) …. " and then what he (supposedly) said.  But it is better just to watch the reaction on her face than to know what he said. 

Yeah, he's not really portrayed as totally together before the hotel: abusive, alcoholic, and then was "there all along".  That never bothered me.

Boy, did that movie age poorly.  I remember it being awesome when I was 11, and I just recently watched a bunch of grown-up hippies afraid of adulthood, and it was less impressive.

Hey, I like it.