"Wait, did someone just suggest that chubby is a bigger genetic defect than blind? "

In geek terms, the "Lot boned his daughters" stories is a retcon told by the ancient Hebrews to make their neighbors sound like inbred hicks.

Regarding Worf on DS9: eh. I was glad to see more of him, don't get me wrong, but… if anything, Worf's character regressed over the course of DS9, changing from the relatively complex character caught between two cultures in TNG to a kind of stock conservative Klingon.

"Diablo Cody was a better stripper then she is a screenwriter."

I turn off the Daily Show at the interview because Jon Stewart is a really shitty interviewer.

Clearly this movie would be less one-sided…
…if the girl was introduced as a scheming terrorist who is defeated in hand-to-hand combat, then thrown to her death by a bloodied yet wisecracking Arnold Schwarzenegger.

What, and a rational person can buy the shit in season 1? There aren't THAT many serial killers out there.

I've always liked Gethsemane, even though the idea doesn't really work at this point - Lone Audience is right that this late in the game, we've seen way too much of the alien stuff for all of it to be convincingly declared horseshit over the course of one episode. But the basic idea - to challenge Mulder's, and the…

I liked DS9 plenty, but of course it glorified war, and of course it was ludicrous in the way it did so. A bunch of Klingons show up to attack a bunch of Cardassians; the Cardassians are all armed with long-range energy weapons that disintegrate their opponents, and the Klingons are armed with swords; naturally the…

First Contact gives us the Borg Queen, and the Borg Queen wrecks the Borg forever. The Borg don't have a boss! The Borg ARE their boss! That's the whole fucking point of the Borg!

Stockard Channing was also in "3 Needles," the movie where she deliberately infects herself with HIV by injecting herself with her porn star son's infected blood and then licking the dripping needle, in order to get swanky rich off some vaguely-defined "insurance benefits."

THE CYLONS HAVE A PLAN. THE CYLONS HAVE A PLAN. THE CYLONS HAVE A… hey look over there!

The problem with Season 3 - aside from all the retcons and the trashing of Peter Watts's character - is that it essentially strips away everything interesting about the show to turn it into a boring version of X-Files. The mystical apocalyptic stuff is gone, the cool weird ancient-cabal-of-mystics stuff is gone,…

It always amazed me how many die-hard fans managed to watch the show for so long. I'd been with the show from the beginning - and by the beginning, I mean I was hooked on the first airing of the pilot episode - and I quit during "The Sixth Extinction II," during that lengthy dream sequence where Mulder is laid out on…

"nuclear power is going to grow again. Frankly, it's the only power-generating technology we would have left that's not tied to geography…"

In the future, everyone will be dead.

Bajorans very clearly start out as Palestinian analogues: they get kicked out of their home by an aggressive military power; that military power's diplomatic ties to the Federation get them roundly denounced as terrorists; they live in squalid refugee camps, are technologically and economically greatly outmatched, and…

Hated Mixology, hated the Christmas episode, loved Documentary Filmmaking. The difference? "Documentary" is funny. It wants to be funny, and it stays funny throughout, even while keeping the character stuff moving forward, and even into some dark material. "Mixology" doesn't manage to do character without abandoning…

I've been bitching about Community on and off this season, so I thought I might as well say this episode - hell, the last several episodes - have all been fucking awesome. I'm all for more fallout from Evil Dick Pierce, too.

Dear God, would you send me a child?
Oh God, would you send me a child?
'Cause I wanna put it up on the TV screen,
so the world can see what your true word means