If you're over the age of about 15, and not a sexist douchebag, good luck with that!

Basically, I found that the first six or so hold up well - they're light, enjoyable take-offs of familiar fantasy themes, short and briskly written. Then there was a significant gap, after which Asprin tried to make the serious more serious - character development, relationships between the characters - combined with…

Sinclair's character would probably have benefited by a more modern portrayal - I'm not sure mid-90s TV was up to a conflicted, borderline depressed commander with a subconscious death wish and mysterious brain things. Or he might have worked as a secondary character, where the stiffness of the acting was less of an…

Professionally, he's a handsome uber-confident badass, but that doesn't mean he can't  romantically be a mess. It could even make it worse, because people he meets expect him to be a success with the ladies, so when he's kind of awkward when hitting on someone, he doesn't get any slack.

He's doing the "Friend Zone" approach. He's not very experienced, and is more than a bit of a romantic. He's built up this massive crush,  but doesn't have the guts to go right out and ask her out (and doesn't want to face rejection by the one), so he's hanging around as a pal, hoping that she'll suddenly realize that…

I remember being specially allowed to stay up late to see the M.A.S.H. finale - I was 10, and this was pre VCR, so you watched it as it aired or not at all.

I think there's a scene a couple episodes from now when Franklin is carted back to MedLab, having had his epiphany, and looks up in puzzlement and dismay at the flow of bodies coming into sickbay from the recent battle - realizing that while he was getting his personal shit together, other people were dying.

I second Prydain and Tamora Pierce - I'm still picking up Pierce's books as they come out because she writes a good story, and she keeps improving as a writer.

I liked Xanth when I was about 13.

I came across it recently, and it's very light-weight and a bit cliched, but not bad for all that. It's helped by the feeling that Foster really loved the music he was references, and the made up lyrics are at a minimum in the main series of six books.

What I love about Beverly Cleary is the intensely child-view of her books. She gets into the mind and emotions of the child, and the things that matter deeply to them but are minor for adults. It's not about what adults think kids should be thinking. 
It's often little things, like the horrible embarrassment of…

I still periodically watch episodes of the British version on Youtube.

I remember the early space ones, and they were a lot of fun - wings, cockpits, windshields, wheels, space guys. But as it progressed, the sets began to have a lot more large, pre-formed pieces that were a lot harder to use outside of their kit template.

You get used to it after a while.

Actually, the Sistine chapel isn't that much bigger than a high school gym - it's surprisingly small in person. (I looked it up - 40 x 14 m for the Chapel, vs 29 x 15 m for  a regulation basketball court.)

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I hadn't thought of it that way, but it makes a lot of sense.  I never warmed to Lochley - I thought she was an okay placeholder for the position, but she never really had much outside of that.

That's what I've always thought about going away to university (or leaving your childhood home in some way) The first few years away from your home and the environment you were raised in involves a lot of figuring out which parts are you and which parts were part of your environment and are quickly shed, and…

I like the Fry-Leela dynamic when it's still unrequited.

I find that when Trek deliberately tries to do sexy they end up with something that is maybe sexy to an adolescent boy who depends on the underwear ads in a Sears catalogue for titillation (I'm not sure, never having been an adolescent boy). Sexy and PG takes some subtlety and skill to pull off.