Yeah, there is a bit of an arc with Grandpa Morpheus where he seems to slowly realize over the ep that Andre has taken on some of his worst habits and he tries to fix it with his "keep it honest" speech. Andre looks like a flailing jackass because for a lot of good and bad reasons, he is a flailing jackass.

Black people advance themselves like this, white people advance themselves like this.

You mean people eventually stopped saying, "that you're not one of those black people?" When does that start happening?

Lacrosse is Algonquin for bloodsport.

It's not unusual for good criticism to challenge the verisimilitude of the presented world in a piece of art or question it's relevance to the current society. I too was surprised by Dowd's apparent lack of knowledge of the character's basic history, but an expert could have easily not even mentioned that plot device…

I think he meant channel the energy into reading and responding to every single comment. And cool article! congrats!

looking back I realised that part of my sympathy for Data was because the rest of crew were often pretty dickishly condescending to him.

I dunno; I liked the Porthos cheese addiction arc.

or Sendhil Ramamurthy

That is possible but my (likely crazy) theory is that they locked in on the idea of using Khan but realized way too late that an expensive international blockbuster with terrorism story revolving around a brown villain would be received as more racist than simply casting a white guy. Seeing as how no Trek film has…

I kinda agree. Every time I watch it, I feel pretty convinced with everything in the episode up until the phrase "It's real". But I get it; "There are four lights" speaks to me as "Fuck you. You almost won, but Fuck you". "It's real!" speaks to me as "Fuck you. You win".

The episode works as a summary of Castiel's life story. He spends the beginning in a job where he just follows orders. His home is his workplace because he has nowhere else to go. He gets a little distracted from his job by the strange events happening just outside his home. He attempts to disinvolve himself only to…

So Elomite is wingdings? Should've asked Clippy for help.

Not asking Cas for help bugged me the entire episode. He is an ally with ancient knowledge and was literally a part of the spell. He should be there number one guy especially if they are going to see him anyways.

That really bothered me. If you got a phone call from one of God's best human friends, wouldn't it be worth picking up for like 30 seconds?

I think the X-Files Mythology is nearly perfect if you ignore everything after season 7. The myth stuff in 8 and 9 basically reiterated the answers given in the previous seasons. Nothing we learned in those seasons changed the course of any entities plans as far as I can recall.

Just because the world your characters inhabit is outlandishly incredible doesn't mean you can ignore every notion of a framework of rules and consequences and expect to make a half decent. I would point to the first 5 seasons of Supernatural, Adventure Time, or ST:TOS, TNG, or DS9 as examples where fantastic stories…

His motivation used the same old and tired cliches about gangsters. Making him "well spoken" doesn't make him a well rounded character. At best, he is well portrayed.

Yeah, from the early season previews, I was expecting a gang war orchestrated by China White but they neutralized her pretty quickly and unceremoniously which is a little depressing considering her relative importance in Season 1. So right now the chess board is very ivory. Next episode looks like it will have the…

The neat thing about that scene is that it is funny only with our knowledge as members of the audience. Given Ollie and Lance's history and the initial dissapointment and anger Blackthorne put into his reading, the characters acted and reacted as naturally as possible.