Lucas owns the rights to Droid, and Verizon paid to license it. When you use someone else's intellectual property legally, you have to acknowledge the rightsholder (which also shows they gave you permission). It's pretty straightforward, and you can't deny that the word "droid" has an indelible (and mostly positive)…

Actually, I meant the finale was the best clips show ever, cuz so much of it was over-saturated flashback sequences, but no-one got that the other place I said it, either.

Best. Clips show. Ever.
I honestly don't know when I'll ever be able to read the 1014 comments that are already posted, so I'll just say this now.

As a radical leftist Californian who listens to a lot of the local NPR, you should probably just ignore me, but my general impression is that, of the small percentage who think about our politics at all, I think most consider Schwarzenegger to be kind of ineffectual in the face of the most fucked up legislative system…

I, for one, take a shot every time he does his "I'm taking a shit" face while singing. I've been hospitalized 8 times since this show started.

My reading of the previews was that (a) the 5th column gets wind of a shuttle that they think contains trackers, (b) they blow it up, (c) turns out it contains humans on their way home, (d) now they're officially terrorists, 'cuz they killed innocents for being around the thing they disagreed with. And maybe they…

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Eddie Jamison will always be "of Schizopolis fame" to me

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Don't even type the Nabokov suggestion. You do NOT wanna know what happens when this trend gets to Lolita.

Oh, here's the butterfly thread, and it appears I wasn't the only one who thought it was eerily blue. Now I'm certain it was supposed to be a Ulysses butterfly.

I saw the butterfly, too, and could have sworn it had bright blue wings. I haven't bothered to check for screenshots, but if it did, it could have been a…Ulysses butterfly. Which would fit pretty damn well.
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Cuz I'm one of those guys….Wallace didn't "pre-date" Darwin (he was 15 when Darwin was sailing the world on the Beagle). Darwin just sat on his theory for decades, because he was afraid of the fundamentalist blowback. Wallace came up with a similar idea, and, being younger and lower class, wasn't worried about the…

Yeah, I really think that, when it comes to the cabin, the only thing we can be sure of is that we can't be sure of anything. We don't know when the circle was broken, we don't know who was in it when Ben and Locke and Hurley all went there (I, like many, lean toward it being a smokey avatar of some kind, but the…

Hold on, HDB - Clue is a damn fine film. Not great art or anything, but better than most films-that-AREN'T-based-on-board-games. I assume the quality of that one is the whole reason anyone even considers board game movies.

Poe was from Boston.

Is "Sex With Sharks" a Maldoror reference? Or just a song about a general desire to have sex with sharks?

Well, the idea was that NotLocke ISN'T a ghost, and who knows what's going on with the horse (I put that in the Hurley Bird category of weird animals).

I think there are two classes of deadish things we've seen:
(1) "Ghosts": Non-corporeal apparitions that take the appearance of dead people but aren't physical entities. Eko's brother, Kate's dad, Dave (I guess - plain ol hallucination works for me on that one, too). These things appear and get people to do things, but…

@ Lone Audience -

I think all the Kate Haters (which includes myself) should look at it this way: There was no way around the fact that there was gonna be a Kate episode. We all knew it would happen sooner or later. This way, the Kate episode is out of the way really early, so the rest of the final season isn't ruined by always having…

I think the writers came up with a big list of two columns: duck jokes and rabbit jokes. Whichever one was longer was gonna be the winner.