The message, of course, is that you take the good AND you take the bad.  You take them both and then you have Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.  or something.

Yeah—LOST popped into my head as well.  The end result may have ultimately been disappointing, but man what a great Pilot.  Also, The Shield had a pretty damn good pilot as well.

I've had way more fun with GTA's bastard cousin Saints Row the Third than I ever did with the GTA games…

And they still let you register?

Well if we're doing video games then allow me to submit Half-Life (the first one, though a pretty good argument could be made for the second as well).  I'm not sure there has been a game before or since that had me as enthralled as that game did, from the cinematic opening on the tram, all the way through to the…

Well then here's mine!  (or at least one of them)

When the characters don't visibly age?  Yeah—that defininitely helps sustain a series.

Saga really is a masterpiece. 

I actually read it in USA Today on Monday…it seemed to me this hit the news a couple of days before the issue came out.

The only thing I can ever remember her in is Panic Room, and sadly, that's how I picture her in everything—sickly.

ilk.  ilk.

I JUST did this not too long ago!  I mention this below somewhere, but I cut the cord almost a year ago so I think my surveys must have blown someone's mind.  Especially since I was pretty well hooked on Fringe then and spent almost the entire week watching season 4…

You can tell me.  I'm a doctor.

I actually did a Neilson survey where I kept track of my TV-watching through little notebooks for a week.  Having cut the cord almost a year ago I like to imagine the "graders" just threw them away in disgust because they couldn't figure out a way to score The Sheild on Hulu or Fringe Season 4 on Amazon…

"…and if you'll look just to the left there you can almost make out where we left any modicum of integrity we used to have.  Yes…right there around 1992."

Am I the only one that remembers Firestarter???  I sort of loved that book, and the end of it was great.

The Shining and Firestarter were two pretty excellent endings—I kind of like the "when in doubt blow some shit up" way of thinking of early King (Carrie, Firestarter, The Shining—and if I recall correctly the whole town of Salem's Lot?).  Also, the Dead Zone's ending was pretty great.  Overall I think the reputation…

Yes, but it was only good for one.

What are you doing reading stories about the show if you're only a quarter way through the book???  This ones on you Lieder.

Sarah Conner?