I'm going to be unhappy with how this was handled either way. If that was Glenn's death, then the circumstances seem especially poor from a dramatic standpoint. It's not that every main character needs to go out guns blazing to save the whole group, but rather that it would be weird for a major character to die with…

When we watched this movie last night, we noticed that pretty much the only black characters in the entire movie appear when Marty goes home in the alternate 1985 and his house is shown to be inhabited by black people, to drive home the nightmarish reality.

75% of this trailer is CGI! There appears to be a lot more location shooting and they built some actual sets, but all of the action scenes in Ep. 7 appear to be heavily enhanced by CGI. People aren't upset because it captures the same aesthetic as the original trilogy.

I think Abrams has already made a strong argument that fans don't really want to see anything new in the saga. George Lucas doesn't get any credit for it, but when he made the prequels he actually threw out almost all of the recognizable imagery and added a lot of new stuff to the universe. Fans hated it. Mostly…

Yeah, as far as we know, Morgan has never been with a group larger than three people since the apocalypse started. Rick, Carol et al have learned some horrible lessons moving in large groups — you can't trust people like the Governor, you can't take prisoners and let them go, and you can't avoid bloodshed. Rick…

The show kind of has too many characters, though. I really enjoyed the episode but thought it was a little bit of a cop-out that all of the Alexandria fatalities were redshirts. They've gone to this well a few too many times — introducing a large new population just so they can kill off anyone who doesn't have a…

I think Carol was just exhausted with how that type of situation played out with Randall way back in Season 2, when the show was way more slow-moving and tedious. The whole group deliberated about the morality of killing Randall for several episodes before Shane lost his patience and just snapped his neck.

I really like how this show almost never leaves the brain-stabbing offscreen when a character dies due to a non-head injury. Every brain-stab is like a small assurance to the audience that we won't have to sit through a cheap zombie reanimation scare.

A woman originally played the Emperor for that one hologram scene (with a voiceover by Clive Revill), but her performance has since been replaced by Ian McDiarmid in makeup. And that doesn't really count because the character was supposed to be male.

I think the biggest issue with the series is that, after Connery, each incarnation of the character just draws from whatever is popular at the moment — then, critically, little changes for years until the next actor is cast. By each actor's final film, the series looks like a relic trying to ape an aesthetic that…

Nope, R. Kelly is responsible for Trapped In the Closet. Which is also genius and would have made a good example.

And yet the pray-away-the-divorce demographic is also most likely to vote for "Get a job, you lazy veteran!" politicians.

I get the sense that nobody involved in the production even thought of that, kind of like how Michael Jackson vehemently denied any kind of double meaning after the release of "In the Closet."

And that's a major issue I've always had with the Star Wars universe. Depending on the needs of a particular story, it's either way too big or way too small.

When the Allies defeated Nazi Germany, their civil infrastructure had been completely destroyed and the army was so decimated that children were being used on the front lines. By the time the Allies reached Berlin, there were hardly any soldiers and materiel left for an insurgency.

It wasn't clear if Jesse was just familiar with Saul from his TV ads, or if he'd either heard about his criminal dealings or met him in person. Either way, Aaron Paul looks about 15 years older now than he did in 2009 when that episode was shot, so I'd really prefer that they not try to work Jesse into this show.

Juwanna Mann meets The Jazz Singer, I like it.

By the time they did that Doolittle tour, they'd basically been playing the same greatest-hits setlist for five years. Despite the fact that they only have four proper albums and an EP, there are a number of deeper cuts they've always refused to play during the reunion tour. And the Pixies also have a really good…

It's hard to put a price tag on the legacy-destroying public humiliation that whole situation put Conan through. I mean, the fact that he was fired from the Tonight Show is going to be in the first paragraph of his obituary, no matter what Conan does for the rest of his life.

I don't think this was even meant to be ambiguous. My initial reaction was that Weiner had gone the opposite route from The Sopranos' ending, and put a bow on the whole series. It seemed so obvious to me that Don went back to McCann and made the commercial that I didn't even expect discussion about whether or not…