@avclub-b9a25e422ba96f7572089a00b838c3f8:disqus Since Batman came out in 1989, I assume you mean Batman Returns, Mask of the Phantasm, Batman Forever, and Batman and Robin?

That ratio is basically present in all his movies.

I love the Ronettes sing medieval agrarian history and World War II Noises.

I know that the unremitting nature of Battlestar Galactica and Breaking Bad, has kept me from watching either.  I've seen season one of BSG, but both shows seem like they would be chores to get through without the occasional episodes of lightness.

Well, I think when you cite The Wire, it suggests there were moments like the one you describe from Breaking Bad.  But I'd argue that DS9 struck a balance that seems to be lost in some of the newer shows.  I think there do need to be episodes that are cordoned off, because sometimes the audience needs as much of a…

I've long thought he would make an awesome O'Brien.

Agreed.  As with Lennon/McCartney, there was a balance created there that worked pretty well.  The Cambridge jokes jokes jokes coalition of Cleese, Chapman and Idle, gave way to the Oxford/Occidental surrealist, stream-of-consciousness coalition of Jones, Palin, and Gilliam.

They're all pretty distinct in my mind.  In the first two Jake is the catalyst.  In fact, given his reluctance, Nog doesn't seem to know much about the methodology of the Great Material Continuum at all in Progress.

Well, chornologically, weren't ANFSCD, and the German episodes, after series 2?  And HG after 3?  Part of that is to illustrate that there was still a series left after HG, and that the film, as well as the departure of Cleese, influenced the style of 4.  And pairing Life of Brian through to the present (depending on…

Sounds good to me.  Maybe it's just a ton of reinforced armor

I figured you'd choose In the Cards over Call to Arms, but then, when I read these, I realized you didn't need to!

So, are you doing just the second series of Monty Python's Flying Circus, or series 2 and 3?  If you do both, that would mean starting on October 3 with DS9, which I certainly wouldn't mind.

My only problem with it is supremely geeky (and not even really a big problem).  The TNG Technical Manual suggests that it took 20 years to build five Galaxy class starships.  But with the war on, they really start cranking them out.  Again, I just assume they really streamlined the process since the launching of the…

And that's yet another Doctor Who style title—interesting the overlap in Doctor Who style titles and band names…

Yeah, remember science fiction?

Tim Burton already did a new version of Abraham Lincoln.

Uh oh.  Tom Shales is broken.

I would argue though that the people of whom one should be most critical are those that already assume they have your vote.  Isn't that at least part of what fueled the IRS scanal in the first place, that they believed the Tea Party were easier targets?

Hmm…it was different people for different things.  But I tend to be fairly completist in my tastes, so I tend to be a slightly more obsessive fan than the people who introduced me to these things in the first place.

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