In The Wire everybody already shot first, so it'd be the same anyway.

Crowley's gone, he can be Aziraphale.

I bailed on Downton Abbey after the first season, but have been following the TV Club coverage, so I am now convinced that Bates is going to die in prison, but eighteen years later, a working class girl and a posh girl are going to emerge from Holloway. And one of them is going to have the rotogravure section and a…

You toddlin' town.

You toddlin' town.

Not just a shamily but a Shamuly considering the number of hours they broadcast.

Not just a shamily but a Shamuly considering the number of hours they broadcast.

SPOILER IF YOU KNOW WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT

SPOILER IF YOU KNOW WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT

I always thought that the series finale would make it necessary for Simon to kill River because that would be a true Jossian Valentine. Mind you, my first fandom was Blakes7, which conditioned my expectations about ending a series with, as it were, a bang.

I always thought that the series finale would make it necessary for Simon to kill River because that would be a true Jossian Valentine. Mind you, my first fandom was Blakes7, which conditioned my expectations about ending a series with, as it were, a bang.

Also, In the Science Fiction Future, spaceship = car. I mean, if you read a serial killer thriller, you wouldn't be particularly surprised if someone drove a car between kidnapping people and inflicting grisly torture on them and then murdering them even if the serial killer was described as floridly psychotic.

Also, In the Science Fiction Future, spaceship = car. I mean, if you read a serial killer thriller, you wouldn't be particularly surprised if someone drove a car between kidnapping people and inflicting grisly torture on them and then murdering them even if the serial killer was described as floridly psychotic.

But in Serenity-the-Pilot Mal rips an officer's badge off a dead body…and hands it to someone else and says the other guy is now an officer, he didn't keep it for himself (although he had no trouble ordering people around).

But in Serenity-the-Pilot Mal rips an officer's badge off a dead body…and hands it to someone else and says the other guy is now an officer, he didn't keep it for himself (although he had no trouble ordering people around).

And, of course, in the brief TV series "Drive," Richard Brooks played a detective pursuing Nathan Fillion, who, as the last episode before its Sudden and Inevitable Cancellation, wasn't as innocent as all that.

And, of course, in the brief TV series "Drive," Richard Brooks played a detective pursuing Nathan Fillion, who, as the last episode before its Sudden and Inevitable Cancellation, wasn't as innocent as all that.

Jubal Early: just the last in a long line of people who tried but failed to intimidate Simon, starting with Mal in Serenity-the-Pilot, including at the very least the guy in Ariel ("important people don't do their own wetwork") and an entire town full of inbred witch-burners in Safe.

Jubal Early: just the last in a long line of people who tried but failed to intimidate Simon, starting with Mal in Serenity-the-Pilot, including at the very least the guy in Ariel ("important people don't do their own wetwork") and an entire town full of inbred witch-burners in Safe.

Niska sent YoSaffBridge to pick him up for the next "We Hate Cordelia Malcolm Reynolds" club meeting.