I'm glad at least one other person said this so I didn't have to be the first.  Is it a great episode?  Hell no!  It's not just the pregnant lady (c'mon, she's not so terrible that she renders the episode unsalvageable), it's the general incoherence of the plotting and the logic of the water monster.

I'm glad at least one other person said this so I didn't have to be the first.  Is it a great episode?  Hell no!  It's not just the pregnant lady (c'mon, she's not so terrible that she renders the episode unsalvageable), it's the general incoherence of the plotting and the logic of the water monster.

I find Season 7 pretty hard to take.  The Samantha two-parter is narratively incoherent but intensely moving nonetheless (and therefore a success), "X-Cops" is a gimmick that works, "Je Souhaite" is a fun trifle, and "Requiem" is authentically great.  There are also a couple of solid standalones that many don't like…

I find Season 7 pretty hard to take.  The Samantha two-parter is narratively incoherent but intensely moving nonetheless (and therefore a success), "X-Cops" is a gimmick that works, "Je Souhaite" is a fun trifle, and "Requiem" is authentically great.  There are also a couple of solid standalones that many don't like…

The final stretch of Season 6 is the last consecutive batch of truly stellar "MOTW" X-Files episodes in the history of the series (Season 8 is a great season, but there are very few true MOTW eps because so many of them are integrated into the overall narrative arc of the season).  But it doesn't begin with next…

The final stretch of Season 6 is the last consecutive batch of truly stellar "MOTW" X-Files episodes in the history of the series (Season 8 is a great season, but there are very few true MOTW eps because so many of them are integrated into the overall narrative arc of the season).  But it doesn't begin with next…

Zach, a geeky MST3K correction I must geekily make:
You seem to suggest that the "Help Me" riff from MST3K originates in a reference to "The Savage Curtain," or at least that's the way it comes across. Not so! It's a riff on a memorably weird scene from one of the movies they did, "Rocket Attack, USA."

Ultimate summer track: "Lady Friend" by The Byrds
David Crosby's last — and greatest — contribution to the band. A non-album single whose obscurity has nothing to do with its quality and everything to do with the fact that he quit the band right afterwards (otherwise it would have become the final track on Notorious…

Nearly ever drummer I know has serious respect for Ringo. You're right, it's primarily a non-musician thing — he was the greatest pop drummer ever, hands down. Never made a bad decision, never turned in a sub-par performance. And the one or two times that McCartney filled in for him, you can tell — it's just not as…

Colin Moulding's songs certainly do not define embarrassing. Aside from the ones already mentioned, you've got:

1) Pavement's albums only grow with time. They are pretty much the best band of the 1990's. (And that's because Radiohead really only got Beatlesque in their awesomeness with Kid A and beyond.)

Yeah, I read Dave Davies' autobiography and I agree on the craziness quotient. You know, listening to their music I always pegged Ray Davies as the tortured closet bisexual. Not Dave. And yet there it is.

"Nah. Lots of people who haven't even seen that movie are aware of this. Along with the bit about how they don't actually just hand out guns in a bank and how Trey and Parker didn't actually write that animated short, this is definitely the most cited bit of dishonesty from that movie."