Dubious reviewer
Why would someone with such an indifferent view of Weezer write a "better late than never" article for it? Both love and hate would make for a better article than a chronicle of one man's indifference towards a band. I would imagine that there is at least one person at the AV Club that genuinely…

Cannonball
The pants sketch on the DVD was lame because they subbed out the Breeders playing Cannonball with some generic and average song. They must not have had the license to use it. Or am I remembering a mash-up they did at that time since Cannonball was a hit then?

Apparently Magnolia is highly underrated in this crowd. I loved it just as much as There Will Be Blood.

Boogie Nights: A-
Magnolia: A+
Punchdrunk Love: B-
There Will Be Blood: A

Will your lazy ass have gotten a better profile picture by 2000 posts?

A simple appositive would suffice though you could use n-dashes if you want. Really the land-lubbing ghostwriter just didn't have the balls to leave a verb so isolated at the end of a sentence, regardless of how poorly constructed the sentence is to begin with.

"IE" should actually be "I.e." or even possibly just "that is"

Ninja assassins with swords

I have looked. His back is to the camera. You can't see his face or genitals though he is naked and his skin is discolored. It is a very short closet so his legs are out to the side.

Let's all pretend I logged out and created a screenname entitled Captain Obvious:

Geez
Take Wilco's dick out of your mouth, AV Club.

See title of post.

Double Entendre
CAPTAIN EO OWNS YOUR ASS!

The fact that Ben is unable to summon the smoke monster is a decent point of evidence for bizarro-Locke being the smoke monster.

In BSG the fact that the colonials were polytheistic was an interesting settign for the story. I don't need to hear rants about the "dangers" of monotheism from a sci-fi show.

Ham fisted . . . and in a sexual way, which is even worse.

I think the point is not where the literal shadow of the statue is, but rather to say who actually lives there at the base of the statue.

Loophole
The two key points of the loophole are that the compass is stuck without an origin in time and that there are two Locke bodies. Bodies can be possessed or emulated it seems but we have never seen two of the same body.

One big backgammon game
When someone dies (or metaphorically is captured a la backgammon) they have to go to the prison area (Jacob's cabin? the temple? Australia?) until they can again enter the game (the island). Everyone is making moves and being nudged along by one side (Jacob) or the other (Esau, smokey) to…

Got to be the Black Rock.