Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz Are Fantastic Films.
You can mark that down in your copybooks now.

Two Fathers- The television episode reconceived as a badly written dramatic monologue.
Space- Ugh.
Fearful Symmetry- Ahem. "Man save man."
Schizogeny- The effects of child abuse on its victims, and its victims' effect on psychic blood trees. Beautifully shot; horribly written.
Jump the Shark- This is from s9, so I've…

Godspeed, young Hole, as you step into waters even I shall never again dare tread.

Krycek was definitely designed to be fun to loathe. They even gave *WE DON'T REALLY WARN ABOUT SPOILERS ON THESE BOARDS BUT THERE ARE SPOILERS COMING- LIKE, YUP, AGENT PENDRELL TOTALLY DIES NEXT SEASON. (D'OH. I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID THAT.)* his death scene an unnecessary, but amusing, stylistic flourish,…

It's a very memorable exchange. It strikes me that Gilligan seems to use quite a lot of light and color imagery in his language. He wrote "Soft Light," of course, and the fantastic "cerulean blue" scene, in which the idea and emotional effect of the color are crucial to the tone of the scene, and he named the central…

I listened again and heard your version. Now I don't want to know who's right.

There's a link at the bottom of the review, Sunglasses.

http://www.assault.it/2010/…

Is that from the printed booklet? I've listened to that song at least 20 times and it certainly sounds like she's saying what I wrote.

The first album sounds like a mixture of early Bowie, The Pixies, Neutral Milk Hotel, classical, Talking Heads, and Echo and the Bunnymen. With a little Cindi Lauper and Bjork and The Cure thrown in for good measure. The second album sounded like Springsteen, Echo and the Bunnymen, and early U2. This one sounds like…

It can when the internet has been poring over this record for the last week and a half like it was the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Wow. I'm a huge fan of "Empty Room." Most of the lyrics are fairly clear to me (I won't have the booklet until Friday.):
Said your name in an empty room.
Said your name in an empty room-
Something I would never do.
I'm in love again!
But when I'm by myself I can be myself and my life is stronger but I don't know when…

Effusion: "Empty Room" is like being made love to by the entire known universe all at once.

I've Effused About This Album Enough Already.
In lieu of further praise, my impersonation of Bill Moyers making love to Hanna Schygulla:

You're not to "Vienen," yet, then. That's one of the best episodes of the series.

Roger will certainly die before the series ends. With every season, he looks like less of a person and more of a well-dressed phantom.

I think he has to be aware at least of the reactions the character elicits. There must be some degree of deliberation in it.

Keith, you nailed the themes of this one. The psychologist's pronouncement was another indication of a difference between a presented image and the changing reality it attempts to ignore. Don is now seen as a certain kind of person, despite his best effort to not be.

I agree, Clever. I actually think Apocrypha is one of the few second parts of an X-Files two-parter that is superior to the first. The final scene is cruelly hilarious and visually stunning.

Morgan rewrote a substantial portion of that episode. It's fairly clear that it was his idea to put Queequeg in it, as the dog only appears in episodes he wrote, and the general sense the audience gets of it all being a bizarre put-on is one of his hallmarks. The shipwreck scene marks his last work as a writer on the…