A lot of that show was good, but it was the parts written by people on his writing staff like Rick Overton. Left to his own devices, Miller is neither funny nor insightful.

You imply that Stone's "Untold History" was supposed to be a shocking expose, but "Untold" just means "not talked about in the mainstream narrative". The historian who worked with Stone actually insisted on "Untold History" rather the original proposal of "Secret History" for this reason.

Gary Sinise is another candidate from the list. Went from playing Tom Joad at Steppenwolf to the sour faced flag-waving conservative he is now.

I liked the imaginative, playful treatment of the time bubble in this episode, but I know what you mean @avclub-0b42e2fbb64a053aa3ec5c8b75926ae3:disqus

A little disappointed that Jake was a member of the cult of bacon…

The "a frog will sit in pot of water slowly brought up to boiling without jumping out to save itself" is another case of "metaphorical utility trumps both plausibility and truth."

Here's some commentary on the complexities of the armor issue.

Even Batman has a utility belt.

Some things I'd like to see done well:

I found his treatment of well-known, historic individuals as essentially super-villains bothered me at first, but I got over that and came to accept the series on its own terms.

Ray Monk's new book says Oppenheimer nearly went nuts at Cambridge — part of it was the stress of finally being terrible at something (experimental physics). He assaulted one fellow student and may have attempted to poison another (biographers differ on whether he actually went through with the poisoning attempt).

So, are London detectives NEVER issued firearms, even when pursuing armed mass murderers (including one earlier case where the killer specifically targeted police)?

Poe's C. Auguste Dupin gets a little credit for inspiring Holmes, though Doyle gradually amplified both these aspects in his much larger volume of Holmes stories.

For the purposes of escape, shooting Ripley in the foot would have been just as effective. With a shotgun, that's not even a tricky shot.

The ending doesn't provide any sort of evidence at all because Ryan is massively delusional. Unless someone else sees the statue etc., there's no reason to believe that any of that really exists.

I think the scene with Kristen Schaal in Ryan's dad's office was the reason her character was created. Then they discovered they had no good ideas on how to use her character in the rest of the season and downplayed her.

There was some sort of political problem/war on Earth which is what the colonists were fleeing from. All that is apparently over now, so not only does Earth have its shit together enough to launch a rescue now, but the colonists reason for leaving in the first place is also no longer true.

In my estimation, enjoyment of baseball hinges on appreciation of pitching, Every at bat is a rising action duel between pitcher and hitter. Even with no runs and no men on bases, pitches are being thrown and one bad pitch could change everything.

One of the unmentioned horrors of that planet was an exotic button-eating fungus.

I think the original ending implies that Horace has escaped and that he was right about (his) childhood being preferable to (his) adulthood.