Twin Peaks is kind of the end of an era — no genre show made after it was able to avoid cheap CGI. I think the special effects limitations work in the show's favor whenever Lynch is directing. For example, I really like the way Bob's attack on Maddy is handled (this sequence doubles as the big reveal to the…

Yes, exactly! I also like the questions raised by Hayden Christensen's appearance, because it's like, how would Luke know that was Anakin? And wouldn't Yoda and Obi-Wan be kind of pissed that they don't get to be young Force ghosts?

I agree. But this is one reason I'd really like a Blu-Ray quality copy of the originals, so I could assemble my own cut in 1080p. I'd like to have a Mos Eisley without stupid creatures running around, Greedo shooting first, or Jabba — but I'd also keep all of the enhancements to the Death Star battle, and the…

How are we even supposed to care about what happens to Bill at this point? There are basically two possible outcomes: either Sookie annoys Bill over the remaining episodes until he relents and takes the cure (in which case it's like, why didn't he just do that earlier?), or Bill continues to refuse the cure and dies…

Also, Lettie Mae might very well have been charged with a felony had Tara pulled the trigger. Parents tend to be held responsible when their kids play with guns around the house. It was pretty baffling that after all that wasted screentime regarding a character we never cared about, the punchline is that Tara was a…

I think it would be a huge mistake to release a Justice League movie before releasing a few solo movies. The way it sounds like they're doing it (by introducing everything in Batman vs. Superman), Aquaman's going to show up for a cameo and say something, and then Cyborg going's going to peek his head into a frame,…

Tommy Wiseau is MUCH more handsome than Gene Simmons.

The lack of diversity in the LOTR movies was discussed, but it didn't generate headlines like this:

That's not really Taylor Kitsch's fault — he only really tried to transition to movies after Friday Night Lights ended, and he had every reason to think John Carter would be a huge success given the talent and resources involved. It's not his fault it tanked. And I'm sure his agent convinced him that Battleship was…

I thought about that in Rise — they planted the seeds for a future Planet remake/sequel, with that whole subplot about the missing astronauts, but we already know everything that happens in that sequel. The astronauts fall out of a wormhole or whatever, land on Earth, find the apes, and then some stuff happens…

Oh, I totally agree. I think Robin Thicke is probably kind of a creep in his personal life, but there are far worse men to make the poster boy of misogyny — I think there's a special circle of hell for rapists and woman-beaters, and so far Robin Thicke has been accused of neither.

Louis CK and Jerry Seinfeld have had pretty successful Reddit Q&A sessions, because they're widely respected and a few snarky comments won't ruin the whole thing. But anyone with a nasty public scandal or lots of bad press should probably stay away from this sort of thing.

Yes, because Lindelof gave interviews saying things like: "Normally the thing that you have to execute is coming up with fulfilling endings and resolve the fate of your characters. But we also have the added weight of how are we going to resolve this mythology… The show is so predicated on questions. So now we’re in…

Taylor Kitsch wasn't the problem with John Carter either! He was fine in the role, but the general public absolutely loathes Victorian sci-fi and has sent nearly every attempt at that sort of movie to the box office graveyard. Still, John Carter's failure has obviously made the suits nervous about Kitsch's leading…

I think Hollywood just won't know what to do with him. He's too talented to stick in bit parts, but I suspect he also can't quite carry a big-budget movie (Need for Speed's reception kind of validates this idea). If he picks the right scripts, and doesn't try to fill the void left by Paul Walker, I think he's got a…

But in context, a lot of Mel Gibson's remarks were too lucid and deliberate to write off his slurs as blowing off steam with naughty words. The imagery behind "I hope you get raped by a pack of n-words" is a deliberate attempt to suggest the worst kind of sexual violence in order to terrorize his girlfriend. Just…

That would actually be an interesting jumping off point for the sequels — it turns out that Luke & Co. encountered little difficulty in wiping out the Imperial remnant and demilitarizing the galaxy, but now there's a new threat from the next galaxy over and the New Republic has no Death Stars or hordes of clones to…

I've always liked the idea that the entire fate of the galaxy revolves around this one backwater planet, but only a half dozen people or so are ever aware of this.

We get a brief glimpse of his wife in a season one episode, when they sign the divorce papers, but we don't see his wife's face and the appearance is stand-in level. But yeah, she was definitely white there.

If you were watching the episodes once a week as they aired, and then going on message boards to discuss, I can see how this would have been a painfully obvious twist. But I binge-watched all three seasons years after it went off the air, and was too caught up by the crazy goings-on in Wee Britain to catch all of the…