The Derbyshire branch already knew about Brian's origins and seemed to have much stronger feelings about it than Tom's side. So why'd they even bother having them all up to the farm and wait for Tom to raise the issue?

Since his discovery of being a clone is no small part of what's driving him now, it's sort of unfortunate he didn't go along - he'd have been even more likely than Hatred to throw his lot in with Venturestein.

There is almost nothing about that video that didn't simultaneously disgust and thrill me.

My German's pretty shaky - that translates to Crooked Milk Teeth, right?

And did they ever explain why he wakes up in the banana stand shirt?

@bradwestness:disqus - there were no roads in (which for some reason was never a big problem in the first three seasons), so the coffee shop thing would've been a hike. But probably more importantly, he'd started to go stir crazy (wasn't he living alone in the monument to his failure with no phone/tv/internet for…

More like J. P. Salinger, amirite?

I've got a cautiously optimistic feeling about how McQuarrie's style will mesh with 3D CGI,

I came in spoiler free and missed the foreshadowing within the movie that suggested this was a fantasy (or sci-fi if you insist) film that would rely on Tesla being at least a century (more like 5) ahead of his time.

@avclub-e5438bd5e7a11caaf7c625d9d5ab7b50:disqus Exactly. OK, so it's too early in the film to be a deus ex machina, but merely because you lay in Tesla early doesn't justify the key second half reveal that your stage magician lead has access to somebody who is, for all intents and purposes, a wizard.

The late revelation in your period drama/puzzler that "a wizard did it", is neither sci-fi nor good story construction, it's just a cheap deus-ex-machina, even if said wizard is a historic genius.

I watched a few episodes - remember it as being a noble failure that had some good moments. Would really like to watch it again to see how accurate my memory is and how well it's aged. Last time I looked, I couldn't even find a clip online. Of course, I had forgotten the title and had to go through Letterman's IMDB to…

Deciding how to handle the undesired consequences of the full love scene: "Nothing says loving like something in the oven"

That reason has a name, and that name is H. John Benjamin.

The show seems to be written by a group that's only casually familiar with seasons 1 through 6. Why should they remember an episode from season whatever?

I was rust rooing my rob.

I'll have to check out Prince Avalanche, I loved Rudd Hirsch on Taxi.

Will they be renting out Segways?

The monster @ 1:47 - unconvincing, but still kind of scary.

Possibly even more controversial opinion alert:
The Kids WB show that was barely worth putting up with because it was so downright obsessed with constant winking at the audience and pointing out its own cleverness and fourth-wall breaking and had the irony and mania* turned up to 11 at all times was Animaniacs.