Counterargument: Tony Shalhoub as Monk, which is probably the lead argument for having this series.

Marion Cobretti only has a few words, total, and parcels them out carefully.

The big problem with Escape from LA is the same problem with a lot of, if not most, sequels: It's basically a remake of the first movie, only with (usually) a better budget and/or effects (sometimes just because it's made long enough after the first movie that FX have improved enough in the meantime), but not enough…

It was no Quick Change either, which was very much like Escape from New York only with Bill Murray as a clown.

"The Smell Of Success, a half-assed mind-fuck"? Are you sure it's not a half-minded ass-fuck?

Hey, I found some CGI in my peanut butter and some peanut butter in my CGI. It turns out that they're not two great tastes that taste great together, although for some reason PB/CGI tastes a bit better than CGI/PB.

There's something about Mandy Moore's demeanor that suggests that she always has, in the back of her mind, the awareness that she's got an ex with a sex tape that he says he erased, but he's kind of a liar so who knows. That's not any fault of hers, but it's a little distracting.

The fact that there are even still porn cinemas in existence means that they should be protected as special wildlife refuges.

I read it as, "well, the groupies and free weed were excellent while they lasted."

Spoilers for last season: Hank is actually thinking of letting Walter get away with it after he lets Hank know that he's getting out of the business, but then Walter gets Marie a purple Cadillac, and not a dark purple, either, but more of a lavender. Hank declares war.

I had similar reactions to the '95 Mazda Protege that I had several years back, which had been through some shit and the bumper was falling off, passenger-side side mirror and taillight were replaced by bolt-ons, etc. Two different people stuck notes under my windshield wipers asking if I wanted to sell it for them to…

'74 powder-blue Ford Maverick, bought in '88. Got a ticket less than a week after I bought it because it started burning transmission fluid while I was commuting to work (I thought it was about to blow up when smoke started pouring out from under the hood); the electrical system was jury-rigged so badly that I'd burn…

*High priest grimly gazing into a pool of blood, the sacrifice's still-beating heart clutched in one hand*

One of the fun tidbits from the DS9 companion is that Marc Alaimo was himself convinced that Dukat was really a good guy, and that the writers used that in how they wrote his part.

@avclub-0806ebf2ee5c90a0ca0fd59eddb039f5:disqus : ALSO SPOILERS There's also the good old-fashioned scorched-earth policy, as one of their allies finds out very late in the game.

@avclub-cb7859448043deafb0efb23909344857:disqus : It's not as if Kira's past wasn't dealt with more than once on the show. She's trying to make a better world than the one that she had to grow up in, and it's not as if her real-life counterparts or the closest thing to it—Gerry Adams*, say—are going around saying,…

@Automocar:disqus : Yes, in "False Profits"; unstable wormhole. Seven was also once temporarily possessed by the mind of a Ferengi that had been assimilated by the Collective.

One of the things that makes Brunt a bit different from most FCA agents is that (and I'm speculating because he's the only FCA agent we ever see, I think) he won't take a bribe, at least from Quark. Probably your average FCA agent, given enough latinum, would "find" an amended contract that gave the briber an out.

See, I can sort of get that Harry would pull something like that, in part because, in the alternate future, all of Voyager's crew except for Kim and Chakotay died (in Janeway's alternate future, only Chakotay and Seven died, and Tuvok got Vulcan schizophrenia or something); besides, even though Harry was a pretty…

Neither the Doctor nor Seven really had Data's arc, though. (If you're talking about the general idea of an artificial being becoming more human, you should call it the "Galatea" or "Pinocchio" arc, out of respect for prior art.) I should state upfront that I've always thought Data's arc to have been badly mishandled…