What, no mention of Wild Palms? An extremely dated miniseries to be sure, but it had a fantastic cast (with the exception of James Belushi) and he was great a a corrupt politician/would-be-digital-messiah.

To those who think there is no cost to piracy ("I wasn't going to buy it anyway", "Big media companies are greedy", "I'm an entitled brat who wants everything given to me instantly"), just look at Hong Kong, where the once-vibrant film industry has been devastated by piracy. Illegal downloading is so common in Asia…

Generations is far superior to the last couple of TNG films, though still quite flawed. I think the first 2/3 of the film is good, maybe even great. I like the cinematography, the music, the drama, even the humour (mostly). There are a couple of exciting sequences, including the destruction of the Enterprise, that…

Removing the lion was extremely cold, almost sleazy. And as an architect, defacing a building that may be on the verge of being declared a landmark shows incredibly bad judgment on Ted's part.

I think nothing would be better than to cover Sandbaggers, the awesome British spy series from the late 1970s. It had a wonderfully gritty Cold War feel, more John Le Carre than James Bond, and the episodes were always well plotted with intricate twists and surprises. The production values make the show look a little…

I far prefer a short game with a higher quality than a long game filled with repetition. Something like Dragon Age 2 may be four times as long, but so what? That length is achieved through repetitive and re-used environments, endlessly spawning trash mobs, and lots of grind. Portal 2 is a work of art by comparison.

"The Thing" is the closest thing to a very good movie Carpenter has ever made, and even then it owes a massive debt to Alien.

All of these characters live in very dangerous worlds. Why is surprising that, sometimes, they die? Instead of complaining about Whedon characters dying, why not complain about all the other shows and movies where the heroes have perfect plot immunity?

The thing that gets me is the so-called Canadian accents that seem so prevalent on U.S. sitcoms. We saw it in the two Canadian characters in this episode, we see it regularly on How I Met Your Mother, and other places.

The personalities of the DS9 trills seemed to be an amalgam of all the hosts before them, with the current host being somewhat dominant. So, for example, Ezri was still the same person after she became Ezri Dax, she just had access to some new memories (and maybe a slight personality change). I can't recall if the…

It's hard to believe that somebody wrote a script for this, some studio exec approved it, somebody filmed it, and it was finally aired without one single person along the line realizing it's not in the least bit funny.

Alien 3 is (almost) great.

Carpenter has made one legitimately very good film (The Thing), a bunch of slightly above average B-movies, and, for most of the last two decades, complete crap. Even some of his "classics" have held up terribly - Escape from New York being exhibit #1 (have you seen it recently?).

It's funny how DaVinci's Inquest started as a crime procedural, and slowly turned into a Wire-like show with season-long plots featuring corrupt city politicians, questionable cops, sleazy developers, etc. The last season of that show (which had an even more unfortunate name: "DaVinci's City Hall") where the main…

Leonard hates everyone
As Todd points out, Leonard really has nothing to do in this episode but look exasperated. In fact, watching some of the older episodes in syndication, it seems that he really does not like his friends at all. While he occasionally joins in their geeky games, just as often he's looking on in…

I'm a huge Joss fan, but even I have to admit that his style of writing seems wrong for the Alien series. The few serious moments in the film were ruined by "clever" quips ("Must be a chick thing!") that were really out of place. The heroes were quite unsympathetic, though they did seem to be an earlier version of the…

Lots of Special Episodes
Glad to see Northern Exposure get some coverage (and it would make a great show for TV Club Classic, at least the first 3 or 4 seasons).

I somehow missed seeing The Goonies as a kid, and when I saw it recently (or at least parts of it) it seemed very kid-oriented, I just couldn't get into it. In other words, I agree that it is not really in the same category as movies like Back to the Future, or Ghostbusters, and it is really only nostalgia that would…

Kobiyashi Maru…from Star Trek…the 2009 Movie
I get a little tired of the way this show insists on explaining every joke and reference to death. They can't just have one character call another "Short Round", they always have to say "Short Round from the second Indiana Jones movie". Even when a reference is a fairly…

Sheldon can't lie
I am pretty much 100% sure that we had this whole "Sheldon can't lie" plotline before. I can't name the episode (I can't name ANY episode, they all kind of blur together) but I recall someone asking him to lie, him getting all nervous, and coming up with elaborate stories to cover the lie. Am I…