I thought Seinfeld had a live studio audience.

You should read the first book. There's lots of good stuff in there that sets the stage for the rest of the series, even if it's not crucial to the plot.

What's really depressing is that we seem to have regressed since this episode aired. It's encouraging to hear about that Shield episode, but most genre shows unhesitatingly show torture (or at least the threat of force) as a nifty, convenient way for the heroes to get information. You never get a situation where the…

Yeah, where the hell did Angela Bettis go? She's a revelation in this movie. She barely even seems to have been in any movies since, let alone having attained the stardom she deserves.

Dumbledore: no, it's not Nightrunner. It's a superpowered Muslim character who, believe it or not, was introduced in the 1980s, so it's not like they just made something up to be shocking. Though it's kind of depressing that "Muslim superhero" is considered shocking, on the same level as Superman giving up his…

The best part of Newuniversal was the one-shot issue set in the ancient past of the same world, where the Starbrand and other NU technology had appeared in a stone age civilization and warped it into really strange shapes.

I remember agreeing with Bill Reed, that S7 seemed like there'd been a bit of a bump in quality after two uneven seasons. It should be noted that I stopped giving a crap about the mythology very early on and mostly watched for the MOTWs, some of which were really memorable in S7.

The fact that the guy's name is Arnie Pie and his segment is "Arnie in the Sky" is one of those great, subtle gags that always gets me giggling when I think of it.

A tear, Sarah Jane?

"City of Death" is what convinced me that I'll never be a wholehearted fan of classic Who, for all that it seems right up my alley. It's written by Douglas freakin' Adams, who I adore, and yet it's still kinda boring and draggy (for all that it has several undeniably brilliant bits).

"This rape is entirely too silly!"

Leno's "shrewd business move" could be considered "a dick move" in some circles, since he undermined Conan, probably deliberately. Asking for The Tonight Show in five years, having given Leno a nice long run and lots of time to prepare for his retirement, is one of the softest "power plays" I've ever heard of. Leno's…

…That was a parody post, surely?

"Did he also have taste for beef chow mein?"

The Superman plotline not only gives us the great "Boy, you really went bald there, didn't you?" scene, it also leads to the only stand-up-and-cheer finale in the whole run of the show. The fact that they did that exactly once in nine seasons of cynicism and self-absorption makes it work beautifully.

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Chinga may be Carter's fault, not King's…
Way back when Entertainment Weekly was still a readable magazine, they featured an early review of this and next week's "Kill Switch", under the umbrella topic of two noted writers being brought in to write X-Files episodes. The reviewer was quite positively inclined to both,…

Hey, you remember the Duras sisters, the ones who were basically Worf's archnemeses? Let's kill them off in a plotline in which Worf is barely involved!

There is seriously nothing more pathetic than the people who devote all their time to hating George RR Martin. HE TOOK FIVE YEARS TO WRITE A BOOK OMG SUCH A THING IS UNHEARD OF

Well, it seemed like she was whole rather than a "patchwork person" like the others, so maybe she was a recent addition who hadn't had her identity lost in the shuffle yet (up until they ripped her soul out, I mean.)