ER was in its original series run at the same time OZ was. Both would annoyingly descend into melodrama and bathos.

If you want to get super-nerdy, think about how "Escape" basically inoculates the entire franchise against time-travel paradoxes by inserting this one scene…

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No, Lorna Gray from the Captain America 1944 Republic serials was the first.

I was always hoping Jean would get to the point in her writers workshop where they learn about ironic self-awareness, at which point she would realize exactly who she was and her character would simply vanish. She deserved that kind of closure.

Just watched it on Youtube. One thing I'll say, if you have ever lost loved ones, you can spot the difference between an actual corpse and an actor playing one. I've never seen a movie get that completely right. But this was very close.

It's not subtext. Have you actually seen any of the Riverdale fan vids on Youtube?

It's essentially what Bring it On would be, one generation later. With enough side-glance references to make the Simpsons blush.

Pretty sure this is his first movie appearance…

This article makes me want to log off of the internet and go read old issues of OMNI magazine.

That performance transcends analysis. The entire film does. Even Roger Ebert said so. He said it wasn't even a movie, it's more like software that installs itself in your brain and stays there. He really said that, read the review.

The comedy will hit a wall unless they go completely black. I mean like having him in bed with Putin smoking a post-coital cigarette, that sort of thing. There is a real question of how far they can push the envelope on this, given that we are still talking about SNL in 2017.

So it's basically Automan. But with modern digital VFX. And Olivia Wilde.

I have a soft spot for Andromeda Strain (both the book and the movie). The thing I really liked was, believe it or not, the novelization of The Swarm, which was not written by Crichton, but another author working in his same style and doing a much, much better job. I also found the Terminal Man to be a decent read.…

You can't really have this debate without having the whole "Michael Crichton is an overrated author" debate. Westworld was intended as a metaphor for our misplaced trust in technology (a big idea from the 70's). This theme was better explored in countless other movies. You can only make killer robots interesting for a…

The first and second "V" miniseries were a big deal, they got very high ratings. We also had Knight Rider and MacGyver. And Max Headroom was good too although few people saw it at first. But most of the geek culture was in the movies (Tron, Star Trek II, Terminator and Aliens).

May I suggest we begin by incubating Sheila 3.2?

"The scene of Maeve studying her vocal protocols and locking up when she can't find a way to get past the system was great. It’s thrilling to see the show engage more directly with its own mechanics."

Just leaving this here:

Because this is HBO Premium Television and the writers are trying to do something new. If Deckard was a replicant, why was he so oblivious when he gave the Voight-Kampff test to Rachel? What would have happened if he had turned the test on himself? What if him and Rachel tried to figure it out together? Once you start…