If you’re correct, and the “real” finale WILL be your standard status quo altering cliffhanger episode, then at least we won’t have to wait a year for the resolution. I actually really like that idea, and it finally makes me OK with the frankly bizarre restructuring decision. (Pulled because of the holidays? Almost…

If you want to talk about Gameboy game songs that improve on the movie material, I gotta give the award to Navy Seals. To this day I can still hum every bar of that. If you ask me to do the same for the film, I come up blank. And I even caught a little bit of it on TV somewhat recently.

And the fact that the Johnny Depp version was a much more “faithful” version of the source material, and all the lesser for it, is a further testament to that.

Oh, I’m sure once audience and fanbase approval grows, AV Club and other “bandwagon critics” will retroactively pretend they’ve always been behind the series and were merely pulling for it to be better. Just like always.

While I do enjoy my serialized programs, there was something to be said about older shows having to wrap all loose ends up in an hour, and not being able to rely on the storytelling crutch of dragging them out for 10 episodes or maybe even several seasons until the writers figure out how to deal with it. (Because…