Favorite detail this week:  Dreiberg says later of Rorshach, "he still had all the buttons on his overcoat."  Now go back and read "The Abyss Gazes Also."  Look closely.

Your third paragraph shows the problem anyone has reviewing this show.  To review the show, you have to wind up saying at great length what you said so succinctly there:  Sorkin brought up NEWSWORTHY TOPIC FROM TWO YEARS AGO,failed to do anything interesting with it, and failed for the same reasons as always.…

Try "you're yellow-carding the guy before he steps on to the field."  Make sense?

I had a burger last week that was ribeye, bacon, and gorgonzola, all blended, with lettuce/tomato/onion and hot sauce on a homemade potatoed bun.  So your statement, although charming, has been falsified.

Here's a great rule that more action films need to follow:  you can generate more suspense and intensity by following the actual physical limitations of things than by going all wire-fu and CGI.

Second.  This site is losing its sense of history, even in the television section.

Ah, the flashback to just after the 9/11 attacks, where we see How They Made Heroic Yet Charmingly Flawed Protagonist Who He Is. Haven't seen you since Studio 60, we missed you.

That second paragraph is one of the most amazing collections of mixed metaphors I've ever seen. Apparently this show is a walking, knife-wielding, stone-throwing, singing gymnastic car.

(Watching sun set over the Pacific in all the colors of the Creation)

Yeah, in previous years Todd wrote about his personal experiences, but there was a lot about other people's experiences too—other Con attendees and artists and even some stuff on the panels.  These posts all feel like Todd's "Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again."

(Looks out window, sees that it's 75 degrees and sunny 300 days out of the year) 
(Gets fresh, reasonably priced seafood sandwich, heads to uncrowded beach)

As a skinny white guy, I am comfortable with your shallowness (-;

The Rock is a pretty good actor, actually; he has something of the Robert Downey Jr. feel—always fun, and sometimes affecting.

"Not boring" is right.  It's like it took every disaster myth centered in Southern California and made a strange parfait out of it.  Also, I'm totally making a T-shirt that says PIMPS DO NOT COMMIT SUICIDE.

Agreed.  Head north to Hillcrest, or west to Pacific Beach/Mission Beach for some good San Diego feeling.  (Look, people, there's a reason Blood Meridian concludes (not ends) with San Diego and the sea.)

Don't be dark.

Todd, do you think you'll be hitting some of the smaller, artist-oriented events?  That always seems to be the most interesting part of the Con.

Don't forget his return on the (also Darin Morgan-written) Millennium episode "Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense.'"  In fact, unless you acknowledge it, I might be forced to prosecute you to the fullest extent of, but in strict accordance with, the law.

Sideways thread.  She was great in that, as was everyone.  What made that film work was the way all the performances felt so lived-in; you could feel the lives everyone had outside the story.  Maya's life, coming in to the movie, was close to Miles'—they had both been married and both been burned by it—and you could…

Any time someone quotes Christopher Walken in life, I can always hear his cadences.