The minority opinion is that "The Beach" is the worst episode.  Definite minority.

This show may have ditched any resemblance to fashion about 5 cycles ago, but it's definitely been making the slow slide down for at least 5 more.  ANTM is not at all about fashion, now; I think everything they do on it is designed purely to torment any hapless girls who dare to think they could possibly live up to…

Interesting point and true to the extent that the only people they can relate to really are each other, but I'm not buying that they were left so vulnerable by events at a silly teenage party that they would end up saying things that everything else they have experienced couldn't get them to say.

What I don't like about it is how uncharacteristic the little opening-up scene around the campfire is.  By this point, after everything that's happened, I'd have thought Zuko would be a little more cautious about sharing his feelings around his sister.  He damn well knows she's going to use any knowledge she has…

Increasingly I become convinced that Netflix is all just some big social experiment to determine the impact of random press releases on the public.  It seems insane to me that they could build up this hugely successful business with little competition and then throw it all away just for the hell of it.  Is Netflix…

I think it can benefit people in the US for the same reason.  99.9% of my downloads, when I do download, are foreign fansubbed TV shows that would never, ever be released over in the US, so it's really the only way to get them, let alone in a language I can enjoy them.

I agree.  I don't have cable now because it's so damn expensive with very little content interesting enough to be worth the money.  I'm not going to pay $1200+ a year when I only watch one or two channels with any regularity.  Of course a la carte will never happen, but if it did, I would definitely pick up those one…

I doubt it's pure bluster, but probably more a CYA for the ISP.  That way if HBO gets mad enough to force the issue, the ISP has a paper trail that there's been a warning served, which would probably be pretty useful if it ends up in court….

Watson is Irene Adler, in disguise all along!

They should adopt a nice wide-brimmed sombrero.  You can't get much farther away in style from the ol' British deerstalker, and this remake definitely has nothing to do with that silly British one.

Not only that, but he's really disgraced if they send him to an entirely different country to rehab him.  Plus… everyone knows all the American rehab centers are on the West Coast, where need is greatest.

Almasy's collaboration with the Germans wasn't supposed to be noble at all, or at least that's not what I got from it.  It was a very characteristic move from a guy who was totally obsessed.  The war meant nothing to him, and neither did loyalties to any country.  He collaborated not to help one side or the other, but…

That's all well and good, but at the same time it seems like a huge oversight not to include at least a mention of that scene.  Waiting to discuss the impact of the scene in the later episode reviews is fine, but still it's an important plot development that reshapes the whole dynamic of the Bebop team, and it…

I'd agree with you all, except for "Sunday Bloody Sunday."  I love that song, despite it being a U2 song.

The first time I saw cabbages in Skyrim was in Riverwood, when I came across a cart overturned with cabbages scattered all over the ground.  And without even a second's hesitation, I cried out, "MY CABBAGES!!!"

Tobey Maguire was always the worst part of those movies because he actually seemed more smarmy than nerdy to me, especially in the second movie.  It's a confusing feeling to like a movie so much while still loathing the main actor.  And for some reason it's really hard to fast-forward through all his scenes without…

I've never really been into any kind of electronic music (I guess I'm a classical music snob at heart!) but I was blown away by Ronald Jenkees' stuff when I first heard it this year, particularly "Guitar Sound" and "Stay Crunchy."  
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Maybe it's because unlike a lot of the other baddies the Doctor fights against, there could have been a possibility of peaceful coexistence, and only the fears and aggression of the humans and the Silurians were preventing it.  It seems a lot of the bad guys that end up being destroyed without much fuss by the Doctor…

The writers are evil.  Every companion that leaves from Nu-Who leaves in some kind of heartbreaking way.

Whatever happened to the good old buddy movie relationships where two male characters could just good friends without all the homosexual subtext?  Because those weren't ambivalent at all…