See, I thought there WAS a feature that pretty much did just that (here's a bunch of interesting songs that came out recently, from various genres) - maybe I dreamt it? Maybe I'm crazy? At the time I was pretty excited about it, because I've never liked the music reviews here all that much (like so many review sites,…

Yeah, the treatment of the Mandarin was actually one of the few things I liked about Iron Man 3. Nerds who are sentimentally attached to that character need to accept that he's kind of ridiculously racist, a relic of a time when Stan Lee could come up with stories by lazily dropping by Don Heck's drawing table and…

Right - "Killer Bob" looks like the neighbor Mr. Robertson who molested Leland and set all of this in motion.

I agree with that take - and I also like episode 16, by the way. But it's after  episode 16 - the long stretch of playing-for-time that most Twin Peaks fans erroneously refer to as "season two" - that deals with Bob and the other "spirits" in almost exclusively literal terms, with the Lodges as otherwordly places one…

All the good band names have been taken, resulting in a lot of good bands with shitty names.

A general question about this feature: I dimly recall this feature, or a feature like it, being used to suggest new music to listen to - either new releases by old bands, or new releases by relatively new bands. Now this seems to be "let's play this song you remember listening to back in the 80s or 90s," which is…

I think the show manages to handle Bob rather ambiguously up until Leland's death. After that, things slip off the rails pretty quickly in a host of ways - one of them being that Bob explicitly becomes a supernatural being rather than the maybe-a-demon, maybe-a-"demon" we get up until then.

I think fans would be happier if they'd learn to just fucking let things go. I love, love, love Arrested Development, but I've been dreading its return as much as anything else. Why? Because I saw the resurrected Futurama, the fourth Indiana Jones movies, and most every other nerd passion that was brought back from…

Wrong year for the moon landing, Babs.

"Dark Peggy" was a total rip-off of Claremont's original "Dark Joan Saga."

"Did your mother teach you about that?" "…yes. Yes, my mother taught me." Sansa and Margery make an adorably mismatched pair.

Brother from a cetacean mother? Man, I totally missed that Scorpius is half-whale.

And what "other kinds of jokes" were those? Is that a reference to the shitty sob-story of Pierce trying to reconcile with his even more repugnant, even more racist dad, which generated some of the weakest moments of the third season? Because, again, Chase was right about that - the ending that Harmon wanted to do for…

The Wikipedia article makes it sound like a coked-up moron's attempt to parody of Wrath of Khan.

"Wasn't Doctor Who doing that back in the '70's?"

I don't blame Chase at all for not wanting to be there, and for ultimately leaving the show. His criticisms of his character are pretty much spot on - Pierce is little more than a vehicle for "he's so old" jokes (except when he's a vehicle for "he's so racist" jokes). Except for the stretch of episodes in the second…

Community does seem to be a show for people who like liking things - with Harmon or without him, it developed a tendency to produce long sequences, if not entire episodes, that seemed to be made entirely to get a reaction from Tumblr denizens.

I don't think it's "putting the audience in a safer place" - I think it's actually being more realistic and owning up to the fact that actions have consequences. As it stands, plenty of viewers watch episodes like "For the Uniform" and "In the Pale Moonlight" and come away with little more of an impression than…

But that's the whole point. If the objection to Sisko is that he thinks the ends justify the means - but at the same time his loopy, morally dubious schemes always tend to work out - then Sisko-the-pragmatist can reasonably shrug, "well, the ends do justify the means." He poisons the planet, but hey, he caught…

I like the episode, to a POINT… the problem is that no one (other than Eddington) seems to be all that bothered about what Sisko's done, and what he's done is poison a planet to get back at one bald dude who pissed him off. If the point of the episode is to underscore something dark and troubling and ugly in Sisko's…