Ah. That explains why they built an entire upcoming episode of Buffy around (SPOILERS) having Tara and Warren make out.

I tend to think that, if it weren't for Carpenter's pregnancy and the cancellation of Firefly, there wouldn't have been a "Jasmine" and the storyline simply would have been about this evil Cordy-imposter (and, presumably, the real Cordy would have gotten herself booted out of heaven in order to come back and lay the…

(SPOILERS) Gotta be totally honest: I thought Angelus was a little weak in Angel S4, compared to how devastatingly hateful he was on Buffy. His Hannibal Lector incarcerated "manipulation" of the team was pretty obvious and hamfisted. I mean, every member of the team already knows Angelus deliberately gets under your…

I was surprised and disappointed that Doctor Who didn't play a major role in the new LoEG volume, though I suppose copyrights are starting to cause problems in that regard. Still, Moore seems to mostly get around that just by slightly changing the names of the characters or not calling them by name at all—and since…

Doctor Who has pretty overtly had its fictional future-historical timeline "revised" several times over by now—think of last season, for instance, in which everyone had forgotten about the Cybermen attacking Victorian London or the Daleks kidnapping the entire planet due to the cracks in time, not to mention the…

For some reason Bender's infinite congo line had me howling.

For the record, Moore's said he's a huge fan of "The Wire" and there were some pretty blatant Harry Potter references in both the latest LXG and in the "Smax" spinoff of Top Ten. The dude reads and watches a lot of stuff, I think it's modern *comics* he tends to avoid.

Moore's a genius and even his lesser, later works are far more worthwhile than 90% of what gets vomited onto the stands by Marvel and DC, but…yeah, the obsession with rape is really getting out of hand.

Some thoughtful points being made here, but I'm generally against the grades; they encourage the "soundbite" mentality that someone referenced above. No matter how thoughtful you think you are, letter grades tend to have a reductive effect on the review as a whole. They're too…overly-convenient, for lack of a better…

I definitely agree that I *loved* how casually they would toss off insanely obscure references or complicated conceptual humour in the first few seasons. Or even just great gags that you could easily miss (like the sign outside the Sperm Bank). The writers were confident enough in their own skill that they didn't feel…

I say just the opposite—he should interact with the crowd (and other people, in remotes) MORE, and stop trying to shape it around a limp monologue. Just spend the first segment finding some excuse to riff with Andy about whatever. That's where he excels.

Wow, how does it keep up with the news like that?

The idea goes back much further than either Adams or Gaiman—I think Lord Dunsany (a huge influence on Gaiman) plays around with the idea.

Josh Holloway as Shadow? That's a pretty awesome idea, actually. Though in the novel, Shadow's a bit of a deliberate blank, and Holloway's got too much charisma, but I guess that's inevitable with a TV adaptation.

I always thought Gaiman's gothness was kind of exaggerated. He wrote a comic that became a goth touchstone, and the main characters are goths, but the series itself isn't really goth…if that makes any sense. You can sort of derive gothness from a lot of his other work, but I feel like it's actually more the other way…

Yup, I agree with inle—Gaiman's natural format is short stories, not longer novels (though Anansi Boys was decent). I really hope the series is retooled to keep that "anthology with a very loose storyline running through all the stories" format. It's a logical format for TV, for sure.

I really, really want Gaiman to finish his run—it was some of his best work—but it would really confuse people who hadn't read the Moore version, so I guess they need to clear the rights to that up before they start seriously publishing it.

Supernatural was heavily inspired by American Gods right from the beginning, and later they basically started ripping off Good Omens as well (goofy four horsemen, likeable antichrist, working with an angel and a demon—named Crowley for fuck's sake—to prevent the apocalypse). Not only was the theft annoyingly obvious,…

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