I think "Best Series Ever" arguments are inherently flawed because longer series get penalized — the longer you're on, the more likely you're gonna have a bad stretch. (See how many arguments against LOST are over one half of one season?) Changes in cast and creative teams exacerbate this.

My wife laughed so hard at news of that incident that it kick-started her labor. My son was born the next day. True story.

Green Eggs and Ham
If you were determined to up the ante and make a Green Eggs and Ham live-action film that out-sucks the others, how would you do it? I'll start:

@ Quirk: Neo does start to tear through the Real World into the RealER World when he starts using powers outside The Matrix, to fight the Sentinels. Oh shit, did I just defend some aspect of Revolutions? Excuse me, I have to paint the wall directly behind my head.

It was Biblical Jacob that pretended to be Esau, but I think the allusion still works, and I suspect Esau was posing as Jacob to somebody (Ben and Locke at least).

The bomb acts as a reset button, but Desmond still gets marooned on the island, he still does (or fails to do something) that causes Oceanic 815 to crash on the island… except this time, everyone who was present at The Incident has their consciousness unstuck in time (a la Desmod), so they remember their old timeline,…

I think LOST is employing allusion, not allegory. You won't solve any puzzles by figuring out who's Cain, who's Esau, and who's the Tin Man.

I think Ben's history with the cabin goes like this: Ben becomes the leader of the Others. He keeps asking Richard when he can see Jacob, but Richard tells him he has to wait until Jacob summons him. So Ben goes out on his own to try to find Jacob; he finds the Mysterious Moving Cabin, and so assumes he's found…

re: Jack's balls: Jacob healed them. They couldn't show us every last thing he touched!

I think raihon is hitting it on the nose. It's been a recurring theme on this show that the harder you try to solve problems, the worse you make things.

I'd been committed to the "whatever happened, happened" camp, and was sure that by detonating the bomb, they were merely causing The Incident. But using a white title card instead of a black one, to me, was a clear signal that they really have changed things.

You're saying 50% of it was lame and 50% was brilliant? Is that a complaint? I wonder how much higher that ratio would be for Monty Python's FS or KITH. They each had a healthy helping of painfully unfunny sketches, and even whole episodes that were just bad. Look at the competition: 50% funny places The Dana…

@Kyle: I coulda googled it, but then his face might show up in the results. Not worth it.

John Voight
I won't even go back and watch Midnight Cowboy, which I know I'd like, because I can't stand the sight of his face. His sole redeeming facet consists of that one sperm cell.

The Romans gave my my surname by way of the Anglo-Saxons, and I really like the way it looks on my paycheck.

While the 3rd Matrix movie was undoubtedly trash, I honestly cannot understand why people who like the first one don't like the second one. Yes, it's not so much a movie as a series of scenes… but most of those scenes kicked my ass! But I only saw it in the theater. Does it not age well or something?

@thukairi I defy your thesis and submit as my counter-evidence "Divorce Song".

Liz Phair is a classic case of Lifetime Pass. She could personally launch a nuke at my grandma's house tonight; she still would have given us the flawless masterpiece Exile In Guyville.

If you're an animal lover, you should appreciate the warning. If you're not an animal lover, you had no fucking business reading the rest of that sentence.

It's goopey and sentimental and I bought it hook, line, and sinker. And it's a common complaint that Ben Button doesn't work as a main character, but I didn't see him as the main character; it's Cate Blanchett that I related to.