Let's just come out and say what we're all thinking: Spike Lee has gotten to the point where The Depiction Of Black People In Cinema is his lawn, and he wants Whitey to get off it.

Let's just come out and say what we're all thinking: Spike Lee has gotten to the point where The Depiction Of Black People In Cinema is his lawn, and he wants Whitey to get off it.

@avclub-ea098057cb0d1379deaf8c1cf4a1fe3b:disqus : I don't think that the series would have necessarily improved by having O'Brien say in every (or even every other) subsequent episode for the rest of the series, "Yep, I'm still in therapy for that epic head-fuck that those aliens that we never see again put me…

@avclub-ea098057cb0d1379deaf8c1cf4a1fe3b:disqus : I don't think that the series would have necessarily improved by having O'Brien say in every (or even every other) subsequent episode for the rest of the series, "Yep, I'm still in therapy for that epic head-fuck that those aliens that we never see again put me…

@Pgoodso:disqus : see, that's the thing that people who go "well, they just hit the reset button in the end, so it doesn't matter" don't get: Sisko remembers. It's a Jake-centered episode, but Sisko has the memory of flashing forward and seeing Jake grow up and old in random moments, trying to give him advice in the…

@Pgoodso:disqus : see, that's the thing that people who go "well, they just hit the reset button in the end, so it doesn't matter" don't get: Sisko remembers. It's a Jake-centered episode, but Sisko has the memory of flashing forward and seeing Jake grow up and old in random moments, trying to give him advice in the…

I would say that it's not so much about morality as it is about the insanity that is inherent in genius. TMP takes the idea of the mad scientist and really focuses on the madness.

I would say that it's not so much about morality as it is about the insanity that is inherent in genius. TMP takes the idea of the mad scientist and really focuses on the madness.

I quite disagree. Doing secret histories that involve recycling old SF tropes, often with a postmodern sensibility, is nothing new (Warren Ellis has been to that well several times, I think), and Hickman doesn't bring anything really special to his version, except to fastidiously remove anything and everything really…

I quite disagree. Doing secret histories that involve recycling old SF tropes, often with a postmodern sensibility, is nothing new (Warren Ellis has been to that well several times, I think), and Hickman doesn't bring anything really special to his version, except to fastidiously remove anything and everything really…

You mean his entire family didn't read that incest porn book that he found in the woods? Whoa, consider my mind blown.

You mean his entire family didn't read that incest porn book that he found in the woods? Whoa, consider my mind blown.

The fact that he has his also-awesome sister Amy reading his brother's dialogue in that story just cracks me up to no end.

The fact that he has his also-awesome sister Amy reading his brother's dialogue in that story just cracks me up to no end.

Are we then to drink and not feel our feet leave the ice when we try to jump for transcendence?

Are we then to drink and not feel our feet leave the ice when we try to jump for transcendence?

I'd blame a lot of the bad fiction in Barrel Fever on the former meth habit (which he describes in one of his essays, can't remember which one).

I'd blame a lot of the bad fiction in Barrel Fever on the former meth habit (which he describes in one of his essays, can't remember which one).

I think so, although I can't remember the last time I saw a kid wearing a D.A.R.E. T-shirt. And, of course, kids don't really do D.A.R.E.; police departments that want to make a token gesture toward drug abuse prevention do. (The kids used to joke that their D.A.R.E. T-shirt stood for Drugs Are Really Excellent.) You…

I think so, although I can't remember the last time I saw a kid wearing a D.A.R.E. T-shirt. And, of course, kids don't really do D.A.R.E.; police departments that want to make a token gesture toward drug abuse prevention do. (The kids used to joke that their D.A.R.E. T-shirt stood for Drugs Are Really Excellent.) You…