The required energy for what? Eleven different actors have played Doctor Who, and they've played it fairly differently, from William Hartnell's misanthropic curmudgeon to Jon Pertwee's prideful-and-petulant gentleman scientist to Peter Davison's mournful, older-than-his-looks father figure. Not every Doctor has to be…

Eh, whatevs

Todd writes great reviews of dramas. When he's reviewing comedies, though, he inevitably sounds like a well-meaning robot doing its best to analyze this bizarre human custom called "humor."

Hey, let's all rewatch season three of The Wire!

The rights to these properties are clearly really tangled, and the laws governing their use don't follow anything resembling common sense. Marvel is clearly using loopholes wherever they can, though - see the Avengers movie, where they used "the Chitauri," which are the Ultimate version of the Skrulls, because Fox…

The anguished cry you have just used is still under license to Twentieth Century Fox.

"Stop calling this man a rapist! Sure, he raped a woman, but, on the PLUS side, he also volunteered to go to Vietnam and help an occupying army kill millions of innocent people, so… it all evens out?"

I can't possibly imagine why Abe would think Peggy represented some sort of enemy, when she's in a good position to become a slumlord.

Nixon didn't pass those environmental reforms out of the goodness of his heart, or because he was some closet treehugger - for fuck's sake, he signed those laws at the same time he was spraying millions of tons of Agent Orange over Southeast Asia. He passed those laws because a radical, mass environmental movement…

Bobby Seven shows up after Bobby Six - curiously seen only from behind - hits his head on the Tardis console and turns into Sylvester McCoy.

Nah, Don's still pretty pathetic in this one - his turn to Betty is clearly a rebound after getting dumped by his mistress. And after that desperation/nostalgia fuck, Betty goes back to her loving husband and her kids, and pretends it never happened, and Don goes back to his marriage that's falling apart - the wife…

Following off of @avclub-913d3a7404f98f0ee3766e12e78506fe:disqus and @avclub-df5a3dab229f5dc14178a10e61efaa49:disqus - Vietnam was not like the (comparatively) clinical wars the US has waged in the last decade, which have increasingly managed to separate US soldiers from the battlefield and the consequences of war. If…

That line made Peggy the all-time princess of white people problems.

That's not what "neoliberalism" means.

Peggy's politics are shaped by the circumstances in which she lives - which, as they are for most people, are dominated by her job. And her job encourages her to see giant, rapacious corporations - even ones as nakedly vile as Dow Chemical - as part of the natural order of things, and encourages her to take pride in…

Someone really needs to take auteur theory out back and beat it to death with a tire iron.

"He works so hard"? At least one of those projects was "watch an animated version of my podcast, where I squawk at my producer for having 'an 'ead like an orange!' over and over again," and another was "watch me send my former podcast producer around the world, while I squawk about him having 'an 'ead like an orange!'…

"The mountain can come to Mohammed!"

There really needs to be just one thread for people to dickishly giggle over oblique spoilers.

Garak's claustrophobia is actually mentioned in a previous episode - I think it's the one where he tries to destroy the Founders from on board the Defiant.