It was goddamned awful. I'll be astonished if there aren't "Once Upon A Time: The Complete Series" dvds in remainder bins in a couple of months.

So, which of the weird parallel universes is the TNG extension of the JJ Abrams universe? The one where the painting is over here? Or the one where it's over there?

Yeah, that role needed somebody more schlubby. If you had to go with a big star, Tom Hanks would have been better. John C. Reilly would have been great.

Ah, Robin Williams. Nothing can touch bad Robin Williams. Back when the Lord of the Rings movies were coming out, I had purist friends who complained about the lack of Tom Bombadil. I found that the best way to end a Bombadil discussion was just to say, "Imagine Robin Williams in yellow boots. Imagine Robin Williams…

No, it's unwatchable. You're right. I like to think that Oliver Platt/Kiefer Sutherland/Charlie Sheen all got late-night angry/shouty voicemail messages from Oliver Reed for years over that.

THAT is why we have an internet.

You smoked the last one an hour ago.

"Springfield area"

It is terrible, but lots of high schools have it. Mine sure did. Angry teenage boys is the prime demographic for that thing.

Atlas fucking shrugged
I wonder if the right-wing douchenozzle would be cool with yanking Atlas Shrugged out of the school because it's got all that adultery in it.

In a fucking hole in the ground, there lived a fucking hobbit.

I don't know why you keep bringing that up! I don't even know who you are any more!

why does he care about the curriculum if he homeschools his kids?
We homeschool our kid and I don't give a crap what goes on at the school he doesn't go to.

…wonder how Hardly Working looks on an iphone
I'm glad the genius behind "Hardly Working" can explain to us that Hollywood has lost its ability to entertain.

kids today and their iFads!
"These kids today, with the iFads and the Podphones, who don't know from the Cinderfella or the Lawrences of Arabia! With the four hundred channels, and what's on? Crap! Fat ladies with filthy houses! Goombahs with the stomach muscles! Did anyone care about Dean Martin's belly muscles? No…

The Day The Clown Cried would look freakin' awesome on the iphone.

meh
That episode was kind of meh. It just seemed disjointed and faintly dull. I did like that the sinister president of EvilAgra looked a lot like the actual head of Monsanto, though. That was nice.

But in Mirror, Mirror, the Vulcans were scary badasses, not the peaceful logical vegetarians of the standard ST universe. When Mirror Spock says "my operatives would avenge my death. And some of them…are VULCANS!" people are intimidated. Vulcan culture made a choice in the distant past, and that choice was different…

I would have liked a TNG mirror episode, too. I didn't like DS9 mirrorverse at all. Klingons were basically the same. Klingons should have been pacifists, wearing loose flowing robes and flip-flops. Imagine Michael Dorn saying "We were once war-like, like you, Hu-mon, until Kahless the Peacemaker taught us the error…

Nothing beats that green wrap-around man-sarong that Kirk wore in early 2nd season TOS episodes. Picard's suede smoking-jacket that he wore in "Darmok" comes close, though.