When Abracadabra and the Weather Wizard are in your family's rogues' gallery, it's not 100% crazy to hypothesize that all magic is just advanced science.   This comes up once in a while with Mister Terrific, who insists on being an atheist even when a rogue angel is one of his teammates.

Spoiler alert:
 
The promising fuckup brother saves the day by jamming the smallest boat down so it sits diagonally, and the aliens can't find the last half of it.   When the aliens finally get defeated, they complain that he was cheating, but he just laughs at them.

I did like one thing about this - I like Dyson best when he's just hanging out with the gang, teasing Kenzie and Hale, etc.   So the bromance with Cayden was dumb, and the flashback braids were painful, but it was good to see Dyson take his place in the gang for a few minutes.

My gripe is how dryly  amused ghost Mary Alice is as her husband, son, and closest friends go through hell, originally in large part because of her.   Maybe the show is really a disguised version of poltergeist and it's Mary Alice who puts the street's residents through so much grief.   (Which would explain why things…

IMHO, it was funny, but would have been funnier if the machine were better.  
 
"What was the POINT OF THAT?  IT DOESN'T MAKE BREAKFAST AT ALL!!!"

One thing I love about the teen boy plots in AD is that Steve doesn't even particularly want to have sex.  His primary goal in life is to "get boob," and even that modest goal goes tragically wrong, over and over.

My favorite guesses from back in the day:
 
1) Angel carried on his Hamilton strategy and drank the blood of the entire army one by one.   He then spent six months in a fat farm working off the blood weight. 
 
2) 5 seconds after the last scene, Angel gets a better look at the army and yells "Run Away!!"  Everyone's fine.

Wes/Ghost Lila is still my favorite relationship, though. (Seriously).

1) Noel, good call on the Spike/Angel relationship.   I had never thought of it this way before, but one thing that makes it work is that Spike looks up to Angel/Angelus in a way that has some overlap with his relationships to Buffy, Dru, and Cecilia.  Good or bad, Spike can be a tool, but he honestly loves the people…

I always took the title of "Origin" to be straight comic book speak.   When he wakes up that morning, Connor what's his name thinks he's a normal teen, but then he learns he has superpowers, battle skills, a connection to a supernatural underworld and a mentor/benefactor with a mysterious past.   Start giving Connor…

True story coming up.  (You can tell it's true because it's not very interesting).
 
The other day, my teenaged daughter and I were alternating road trip song choices in an effort to annoy each other.   I played some Oingo Boingo and tried to explain (1) what made them so great and (2) what happened to Danny Elfman in…

I thought it was good, but I'm still bringing fairly low expectations to the show.

Some of the individual episodes are goofy, but Season One establishes and forms the relationships that will carry the show for the rest of the series: the Scoobies and Buffy-Giles.    Also, I think Prophesy Girl stands up alongside any other episode as the best of Buffy.

About 20 years ago, I went to an Army of Darkness screening followed by a Bruce Campbell Q&A.   
 
Somebody asked him some continuity question, like wasn't it inconsistent that he had some tool that didn't come through the portal at the end of the second movie or something.   Campbell's answer was "Wasn't it…

IN51P1D - Reed did, but he used a rubber hose.

Super late comments:
 
1) I loved the loofah line because it's the one moment when the other characters acknowledge the essential creepiness of having an invisible heterosexual male ghost living with Cordy.   Assuming that Cordy and Dennis aren't FWB, Dennis is in the worst friend zone of all time — he can't even leave…

IMHO, it's almost guaranteed that Aqualad, Speedy, Artemis and Kid Flash are undercover somewhere.    If any characters show up with similar power sets, assume it's them.

I like the Glenn-Beck-ization of G. Gordon Godfrey, as well as his rant about how do we know that Flash, Hawkman or Icon (hee!) aren't aliens?
 
1) Have they said whether this version of Hawkman and Hawkgirl are aliens or reincarnated Pharaohs or what?
 
2) Is Icon getting any love in the comic books, or just on YJ?

This movie would only be worthwhile if Edgar Allen Poe used his own writing as action catch phrases.
 
"All right, dirtbag!   Get ready to hear the tintinnabulation of my FISTS FISTS FISTS!"

Somehow, I feel like this show knows it's cheesy, and that makes me love it.   More than anything else, it reminds me of the Kevin Sorbo Hercules, although I can't explain exactly why.   (If I had to explain, it knows it's cheesy and enjoys it, but doesn't go for all the winking and mugging that Xena eventually fell…