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Worse still, her crew doesn’t so much as wink in the direction of rebellion, and half of the members are genuine ex-Starfleet rebels known as the Maquis. Two episodes later, life on Voyager is hunky dory, give or take a reference to some rebels not fitting in. Berman was adamant about this point. In Stephen Edward…

I would love to have seen that. She was really the only good thing about St. Elmo's Fire.

I can understand why he'd be pissed—your'e basically telling your roomie to get the fuck out of a celebrity's way, and Rollins doesn't seem to be the sort of person to say, hey, yeah, move over, that's righteous. (There's a video floating around where Rollins is showing someone around a good record store, and some…

Maybe you've seen too many performance art performances, in which someone smears themselves with chocolate frosting while talking about their grandmother or something, and you're challenged by the notion that you paid real cash money for a ticket for this mess.

I doubt it. Cabo Wabo tequila is hugely profitable.

The iron never lies to you.

Yeah, I know.

I can't remember if this was made explicit in the books, but one thing that I got from the revelations about Neville's backstory—and, of course, his relationship with his terrifying grandmother—is that, although Harry had the disadvantage of being raised by Muggles and therefore having to learn about the very…

Seeing it repeated three times made me read it as "fuch the rick kid."

@avclub-1534b76d325a8f591b52d302e7181331:disqus : also, WRT Morrison, although I've read quite a lot of his work and usually found something enjoyable or at least mildly interesting in most of what I've read, he's always been—from the first stuff of his that I read, in Doom Patrol—someone who's very much in love with…

@avclub-1534b76d325a8f591b52d302e7181331:disqus : if you want latter-day Moore with "gravity", I'd suggest Promethea.

You laugh, but you haven't lived until you've heard "The March of the Sinister Ducks."

I would have guessed that she was Dick Durbin's wife.

i feel so guilty for laughing at this

I thought I was the only one who remembered Cotton Candy. Maybe I'm just one of the few, like you, who's not sane enough to automatically eradicate it from my memory.

Well, TMP was just successful enough to justify making a sequel, but it was disappointing both in terms of the expectations that Trekkies had built up in the decade between the end of the series and the movie, and in the expectations of a pre-existing franchise making a movie in the wake of Star Wars (and especially…

No idea—maybe Milky Way—but I remember that commercial, and I used to look at that whirlpool of chocolate and think, "Screw your candy bar, just gimme a straw."

I think that at least 50% of the patrons in those places are alcoholics on pensions who are doing low-key, no-drama personal versions of Leaving Las Vegas, in that they'll just go in and drink all day until their livers pack it up.

I love that movie. It's on Amazon Prime and I am in the process of watching it, as in, I have to watch it in small doses because it's so goddamn depressing, but also kind of beautiful.