Holy fuck is Hella awesome. I checked them out just now, and I was highly impressed by how good the drumwork was, but totally blown away by the composition.

INITIATE TALKING OUT OF MY ASS MODE; A 6'1 guy at 210 pounds has a BMI of 27.7, with overweight beginning at 25 and obese at 30. It's a flawed metric in some ways (it doesn't account for muscle, most notably), but for most people it's pretty accurate once you get past the transition points. A guy his height should…

The Giles/Tara duet is what does it for me. It synthesizes the two most tragic developments of the episode (and season) into one tear jerking moment. In hindsight its even worse.

Yeah, what was the problem? It's one of the best episodes of a top-shelf series known to inspire fan loyalty, and if it had a major impact on you as a viewer, who wouldn't put the soundtrack on their mp3 player?

The Newswire pieces comments
So it seems like hating Joss Whedon and his fans has replaced fapping over him as the default AV Club response. Was there a meeting, because I definitely didn't get the memo.

I loved the whole episode, but the Abed scene really worked for me. It's like the show's way of indicating that he isn't really "just" a nerd, but actually is probably an aspie or something. As a rule, I tend to hate people on TV who have Aspergers, because it usually seems gimmicky or half-assed, but Abed is an…

I agree 100% with this. If you were to tell me that Pixar hadn't made the best film of 2010 with Toy Story 3, I might believe you. If you were to tell me that every movie Pixar has made was worse than that year's best picture winner, I wouldn't trust anything you had to say about movies ever again.

The only holiday decoration more metal than this
Is a giant flashing crucifix synced to Once Upon The Cross.

Anderson is bad, Karen Traviss is worse (if you're a Star Wars/Gears of War fan). Never thought it was possible to make Boba Fett awful, until I read one of her books. Even though Aaron Allston is awesome, and Troy Denning is OK, Legacy of the Force was basically ruined by her Fandalorian shit. At the risk of sounding…

Just to clarify, are you saying "boo", or "boo-urns?"

Maybe so, but it just seems OOC for Lilah to take it until Cordelia convinced her otherwise. She's exactly the kind of person who would assert herself at the first opportunity, not because she wanted to take a stand for women, but because some asshole humiliated her. The speech Cordelia made to her was totally…

1. Community
2. It's Always Sunny
3. Parks and Rec
4. 30 Rock
5. American Dad

Inception?
I haven't seen Inception (though I did see Insheeption), but this description reminds me of what little I know about the plot of it. Anyone who's seen it - does it seem reasonable to suspect at least a few references to the movie, if not a partial parody of it?

I meant to say "Shells," not "A Hole in the World." Wish we could edit these things, but oh well.

Anyone up for another "SEASON 6 ROX/SUX" thread?

EXCEPTIONALLY VAGUELY WORDED SEASON 5 SPOILER

Billy
I like Billy just fine, but I agree with most of Noel's criticisms of it. I can't help but wonder whether it would have been better as an episode of Buffy than Angel. Buffy's been working with themes like that since the beginning, while Angel is nowhere near as good (IMO) when it goes into magic=metaphor mode.…

Even though it was so similar to "Making a Stand" in conclusion, the way it got there (as a pop culture parody vs AD's more character based story) makes it seem decently original, and in the spirit of the show. I loved this one because it seems like there haven't been many Jeff episodes lately, and it was nice to see…

There are some problems to having just fans review the series. As a total Harry Potter fantard, I fucking hate the Order of the Phoenix movie, because it sums up 870 pages in a way that creates some serious continuity issues, in addition to turning the plot into a rough approximation of the original's. I also…

Always nice to see a reminder that, whatever else happens, my magnum opus won't be the Citizen Kane of bad fan-fiction.