I guess I lost my taste for them because in real life, it so often turns out that it is clergy abusing the mentally ill, sometimes to the point of killing them.

I see where you're coming from, though, I guess it was more that The Conjuring was never marketed as a 'Christian movie', just as a horror movie, at least to my eyes anyways, and the whole schtick rubbed me the wrong way because of it. Particular considering how they reference baby killing Satanic witches, which…

Its one of the reasons I liked Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity. They don't know how to stop those things being normal people. And then they don't.

It does indeed interest me. My girlfriend and I have watched several of the more recent exorcism movies and thought that they were basically how the Catholic church imagines themselves, in particular, The Rite stands out. I don't suppose that was one of the ones you heard of?

I still think that the threat of a ghost or demon is made pretty lame when a Catholic priest can read from a book and it stops. The tension is "oh, can he finish reading all of that?"

I didn't see the movie making an effort to make that distinction. The quote from Warren at the end of the movie was clearly making an effort to say that The Conjuring was set the real world. The Warrens themselves clearly believed they were living in a Catholic world, with these sorts of angels and demons in it.

I think they needed to just stick with whether Janeway was a stickler for duty, or someone who played fast and loose with the rules. They tried to split the difference, and her character just got annoying. Kate Mulgrew seems to be a good actress (with OitNB), but perhaps she couldn't really get her character across…

I do find it interesting (SPOILER FROM BOOKS) how Stannis's sense of what a king is leads him to start acting like a king in defending the North, even while neglecting the fact that he is only weakening his chances further by going on that adventure.

You know, I have to side with Littlefinger a bit (I'll shower later). No one *deserves* the throne, because Monarchy is a flawed concept. The only people who really deserve are the ones who can take it and keep it.

Yeah, the Romulans were also really risk-averse. Which is great for a weekly show. The Romulans are find taking a shot at a Fed ship every once and a while, but they shy away from total war.

Watching TNG today, its so much more frustrating just from how little they serialized. They threw off so many great themes and ideas every week that would have been good enough to occupy whole seasons.

Yeah, I played a fair bit of Vampire the Masquerade in college, and they always made such a big deal about the connection between Sire and Progeny, it felt like a waste to see Darla gone so soon. But then, Buffy was all about anti-climax deaths.

Clearly the freeing up of the Chevy Chase monies enabled them to do a bit more.

Especially considering it was a show where McNulty just took a season off to be a beat cop. The cast naturally fluctuates.

You really have to give Astrid credit…. how often in these sorts of shows does the main power couple and the mad scientist *not* have their assistant murdered every week. Perhaps she was secretly the most badass of all of them.

It seems like Deadwood alumni don't always get their due as guest stars, with the notable exception Ian Murder Santa McShane.

Your welcome! It did take like, 2 or 3 seasons to bring that out, or at least, mention his original name.

Again, I certainly would not mind more diverse characters (or hell, doing more with the female characters they already have).

Tom Haverford changed his name from Darwish Sabir Ismael Gani to make himself more appealing to white people. They mentioned it at some point in the show.

I think it would have worked better in a less realistically set show. I mean, people aren't normally severely injured by a dog and ODing on Special K on this show and then are fine in the next scene.