"Sound like"

I'm convinced that anyone who didn't watch the movie as a kid recognizes it as the just-alright comedy that it is. More iconic than actually high-quality. Like whatever that theory was on How I Met Your Mother about your love of Return of the Jedi falling to if you were young enough to like the Ewoks.

The media hype, and reading a bit of Todd's review last night before watching the episode, definitely made it seem like a much bigger shift than it does when watching it. Though maybe the shift's more noticeable after the first episode, which was still largely ISIS-centric.

I desperately want the sixth season to actually be a season-long prison escape plot. I really, really do.

I honestly don't care, because I thought we were losing a bunch of characters I love and who couldn't be transported to the 616 without stretching credulity and severely altering their personalities and dynamics. Long live Ultimate Spidey's supporting cast.

Remember how this is supposed to be a Joss Whedon show?

I like to think Huebel only took the role in this episode after demanding the Warhol-style quadruple portrait.

"Cigarettes in space?"
"It's the final frontier, Nick."
"But wouldn't they blow up in an all-oxygen environment?"
"…Probably. But it's an easy fix. One line of dialogue. 'Thank God we invented the, you know… whatever… device.'"

Yeah, the Jake-as-a-goof aspect of the character works when he's SO good at his job that he can afford to be blase about it and basically screw with people and/or try to amuse himself (like coming up with characters for himself and Holt). Less so when screwing around comes first, at the cost of the job coming second.

Man, that Harley Quinn concept felt like a missed opportunity. Why make it so repetitive and have every page be Harley comments on the art, writers name drop next artist, repeat 20 times? Why not a narrative where the world itself is changing?

Either Image is moving in a more mainstream direction (well, mainstream for a comics company not built around superheroes), or they're getting all these big names so that their books can bankroll some upstarts.

So, what did everyone go with in the Comedy Bang Bang Best Of poll? So far I've whittled it down to this list of 12:

The "TEXTER!" gag, and Paul F Tompkins' eventual flat narration about deciding to kill everyone, was so great as a former Dexter fan turned hater.

Wait, Catching Fire WASN'T 3D?

Mine gasped loudly with the voice, then squealed when he showed up on-screen. They just seemed to need the confirmation.

I guessed that too, but I suppose that even with 13 TARDISes, it'd take a while to evacuate a planet with 2.47 billion children alone. Plus, where to evacuate them too, and how to prevent the Daleks from following them and continuing the war?

What about you, commenters: are there any other segues that one could use to improve this format?

Clara drives past a clock near the very beginning while leaving the school. The clock is set to 5:16pm, the exact time the first episode was broadcast in 1963.

Tenth is hunting down a Zygon and tries to bluff the Zygon into revealing itself by wooing and proposing to Elizabeth I (why this was his plan is left unexplained, probably for the better). He thinks he catches the Zygon when she doesn't seem to react to his casual revelation of certain alien traits about himself, ie.…

I am fine with this because as much as I like the people on Mindy, I can't help but be excited about such a strong vote of confidence in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which at nine episodes is already much funnier than Mindy and arguably better than New Girl right now. May it live forever.