I cannot like this comment enough, @parvomagnus:disqus. "What Was Missing" was the episode that made me sit up and think, "OK, I liked this show before, but now I'm starting to think it's something really special." And "Sons of Mars" is just the most wonderfully whackadoo thing I've seen in recent memory.

Re: Fringe: It gets better. Patience, young Fringe-watcher.

I was about to write this exact thing. With capslock. And maybe an exclamation point or five.

Thank you, helpful responders!

Serious question: Where does one start with this? At the beginning? Just jump in whenever? I don't love the idea of starting with the latest episode, because I feel like I'm missing out on a hundred episodes worth of history. But it's also hard to start from episode 1, because there are just so many of them to get…

Ditto: yay, Computer Chess!

And of course there's that scene where Viggo Mortensen accidentally kicked a helmet too hard and broke three toes, and Peter Jackson was like, "Yesssss… leave it in, precious." That's why Aragorn falls to his knees in that scene. Broken toes will do that.

Well, Beverly Hills 90210 (not the remake, which was called 90210, so I'm counting it as a different thing) ended in 2000. 7th Heaven ended in 96, Passions in August 2008, Stargate in 2007, and Walker Texas Ranger in 2001.

8. Beverly Hills 90210
9. 7th Heaven
10. Passions
11. Stargate SG-1
12. Walker, Texas Ranger

"The fuck did I do?!" McNulty said.

The show may have EXP, but it better have a lot of CHA, because as much STR as CW shows have, they normally don't have much INT.

Can I interest you in Korean dramas? Much better than any novela I've ever seen.

I'm with Lurky and Tea Rex. Since lots of people have been talking about Fringe, let me bring it up again. There's a show that had a bunch of mysteries ("Who are the Observers?" etc),  and from what I understand the writers made up many of the answers as they went along. And it worked, for the most part. I think the…

Yes, and maybe.

That is so awkward. Sounds like the narrator in the bicycle repair man sketch. (http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Uh, timey-wimey… something…? *runs away*

Oh, Zack, totally with you on the grinning thing. I loved Broadchurch, but there was something extremely unsettling about the dearth of wacky Tennant grins. I didn't realize it until he laughed at the dinner party with Joe, and I suddenly felt this strange sense of relief.

Yay, so happy to see I'm not the only one who loves "Waters of Mars." Love Lindsay Duncan, and the ending is such a gut-punch. I know people complain that Tennant can be hammy, but where would that episode be without his glorious hamminess? "THE LAWS OF TIME ARE MINE AND THEY WILL OBEY ME!!!" How can you not love that?

THANK YOU. Blink is a fun little episode with lots of atmosphere, Carey Mulligan is fab, and the script is often very funny, but I get so irrationally grumpy when people praise it as the best episode. Yes, yes, you love the timey-wimey. But as mentioned above, some of the timey-wimeyness doesn't actually make sense.…

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