Aw, there you go selling the whole Adult Swim aesthetic short by writing it off as a bunch of lazy stoner humor. (Did you write that Eagleheart review a while back? May have been a different writer I'm thinking of.)

An okay episode, but it was so routine in execution that it managed to make a group of people kicking a dead whore into a hallway seem relatively passe. There was the usual level of comic depravity, but it never quite achieved the surreal heights that the best Sunny episodes have.

Furr had traces of pop, folk, and soul music that place it far above generic alt-country, and BT's songs are thankfully more hooky than the average Wilco wannabes. American Goldwing could be described as "Furr lite," but I still like it better than the awkwardly mawkish and bloated Destroyer of the Void.

I never said Moffatt is trite - His ideas are very original. The logic of his stories is where the wibbley-wobbley comes in, and he tends to handwave the logical inconsistencies with technobabble (that's where the glibness comes in).

"Glib" is a good word to describe Moffatt's storytelling (I got flack a couple of weeks back for going into longwinded detail about this quality, when that monosyllabism is exactly what I was looking for the whole time). but you had to at least give this one points for style. The minimalist, monochromatic hospital…

Love and Monsters may be the most insipid hour of sci-fi this side of ST: Voyager's "Threshold."

Hot Google-searching investigative action and some wacky oil-on-water hijinks between the Torchwood crew and a murderous pedophile. Just what this show needed to kick things into high gear.

When G4 replaced TechTV (which was admittedly exclusionary and often too nerdy, but still had plenty of redeeming programming) and turned it into the All Thongs, Body Shots and General Frat Culture channel (as if Spike TV hadn't already captured that niche perfectly), it was a microcosm for what was happening to our…

The Sponge - Classic Elaine plot, funny Jerry plot ("She is depraved!"), okay George plot, promising Kramer plot that devolves into stupidity at the end. B+

What can I say, I just know a lot about female contraception.

*sigh* SNL has been pandering to the tweener audience more and more over the last decade, which is sad.

I noticed a small oversight in "The Sponge," probably an insignificant detail, but interesting nonetheless. Elaine tells her boyfriend that she can't have sex with him twice, because she can't afford to use another sponge. According the Today Sponge website (http://www.todaysponge.com/…, the sponge can be used for…

Kenny Rogers is a middle of the road crooner, through and through. He's produced a few songs that are guilty pleasures, but is nothing special.

Glen may be the coolest "square" artist of all time. Unless you consider the Beach Boys square, although I think they've long since been canonized by self-consciously hip people. 

Moffatt piles on layers of plot twists in an appealingly ambitious way, but if season 5 is anything to go by, he's not all that masterful at bringing all the different threads together plausibly. The whole "Amy believing is enough restore the entire universe, Rory and the Doctor" thing felt about as slapdash as the…

What a preachy book. Everybody's a sinner! Except that guy.

Their time travel might be inexact, like the TARDIS. Always a few minutes or a few years off the mark. Or possible there are other forces at work drawing both the Doctor and the Meet Dave people together. We'll see.

Alex Kingston, more like Milfex Milfston - ah forget it.

I have mixed feelings about this one. I loved the whiplash pace of the episode, the typically screwball dialogue and the overall sense of lunacy. I love that you have multiple time travelers arriving to kill Hitler, which is of course impossible to do (at least without serious repercussions) given the nature of time…

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