My understanding was the shortchanging of Season 2 was designed to pressure and squeeze Darabont out. The budget shortfalls turned most of Season 2 into a “bottle episode” frustrating viewers and Darabont to boot.

Note, for all intents and purposes, up to this point, As a show, TWD was Frank’s “baby.” He was the one…

“io9 Offers Harsh Hyperbole In Headline Writing”

“Yer derder swer ern erth.”

“Bottle Episode”

No Walter Peck of the EPA minifigure?

Upon whom am I to dump hot marshmallow sludge?

Nice to read the closest thing I’ve read to being a full-fledged endorsement of this show.

For the past year this show has been openly criticized for it’s inherent inconsistency, unevenness and “wonk” (for lack of a better word).

I, on the other hand, have always embraced these aspects as something making this show…

I met him in 2000. At the time, there was only one type of X-wing to try to squeeze him into.

Should’ve taken it back. It has a bad motivator.

Yes. Probably. But he did NOT fit in the X-Wing that was available upon the release of the figure.
#PleaseDoNotStepInMyCabbagePatch

As another sucker for Good (or at least Compelling) Design, I feel your pain.

If they had listened to Ripley, followed protocol and not let Kane onboard once he was infected, the crew of the Nostromo, Kane withstanding, would have survived.

#4 is my perpetual "Go-To." My wife even quotes it now as well- Typically at PTA meetings.

BFG FTW!

Cool thing one, I was able to go to the exact page of the Flickr album where the toy section starts. As a child of the 70's and 80's I knew toys in the JCP catalog start at the beginning of the final third of the catalog before the it finishes with "luxury goods."

Worth pointing out there was a time if you wanted to have an over-casted epic, there was one name- Dino De Laurentiis.

Also worth noting the making of this film and its subsequent poor financials undermined and is partially responsible for not being completion of Stanley Kubrick's longterm project Napoleon.

(The…

One of the things that makes the Thunderbirds compelling to their original fans- whether they admit it or not- is supermarionation. Taking the puppets out of Thunderbirds is equivalent to Godzilla without suitmation, or fluffing Speed Racer with high-budget CG. It smacks against the very core of nostalgia that has…

Fitting Tribute to an amazing show in the context earlier generations were introduced to Japanese Animation (before the term 'Anime' was prevalent).

This fuels the nightmares of those of us who have periodic dreams of being in car crashes.

"...such a system would have been necessary for the crew to have even gotten off the ground in the first place:"

Although J.J. Abrams' Star Trek subscribes to the idea the Enterprise was construction was ground-based, I do not. I believe in the idea that a massive starship would need to be constructed in orbit.

I…