Just as long as you didn't accidentally kidnap Scott Buck instead.

The starship battles in DS9's last two seasons really made the later TNG films look like really small ball by comparison, which really didn't help those movies' attempts at scope (as well as, of course, First Contact's awesome opening battle).  Particularly in Nemesis, which is about a possible war between the…

They're saving the one kiss the show has allotted them for the actual wedding.

"Maybe if we rename it to sound like an existing hit show, the credulous morons of America will watch it under the mistaken belief that it actually is that show."

Is Cougar Town the consensus pick for to be the Shawshank Redemption of TV show titles?

Suggested alternate titles:

Friendly fire.

I liked it.  With so many characters to introduce, there's obviously only so much that could be done with any individual one, but the cast feels like it works (the youngest son is a little on the ham side, but he's a child actor in a sitcom, and far from the worst I've seen).

@Whatwhatque:disqus :  For a lot of people it's like buying the DVDs, if you don't want to be bothered with a physical copy.  And for AMC shows like Breaking Bad, it's a way for people who don't have AMC to get it.

Maybe it's "Mary".

At first I didn't notice that "Ted and The Mother Being Together in the Future" was really that.

It seems like they got the casting of The Mother (I'm guessing we won't learn her name until the finale) right, which is a big success for the show.  If that went awry, it would be a huge screwup, even if The Mother has never really been the point of the show, despite the title (perhaps partly why the writers were so…

I pointed out that his grievances are definitely keeping him in the game at this point, but it's reductive to call that his "true" motive as if his family doesn't matter.

I read that about a year ago.  Without getting into spoilers too much, the ending surprised me, perhaps because I've read a lot of the more modern "dark" fiction.

I read the Henry IV plays some time before I saw the first part performed on stage in Stratford (Ontario) some years ago, and I found that it was one of the plays that really benefits from being staged.  The more comedic stuff with Falstaff, etc. is really hard to get across on the page (whereas the more formal…

I have no less than three books on the go right now.  I got halfway through the 850+ pages of A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel, and put that aside for a break, because that book is dry as hell.

Holy Motors is just gratuitously weird.  I couldn't enjoy it at all.

If you liked The Name of the Rose, I'd recommend My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk, which has a somewhat similar premise, set in the medieval Ottoman Empire.

Can't wait to see who takes her hostage in season 2!

The final 15 minutes are where the really heavy stuff is.  I don't cry at movies much, so I'm not the best judge of these things, but that section is quite effective.