I'm just relieved it isn't some "lost manuscript" of an early Hobbit draft featuring Kili and Tauriel.

I only clicked on this because I guessed, from the title, that it'd be an O'Neal piece.

Oh good, I'm not the only one who read that and went "huh wait what?" despite having AT&T as my internet and cell service provider.

I haven't read them, but just the overall idea, the description above, the character's name, and refs to The 100 and Underworld made me roll my eyes and go "ugh, yeah, I bet this is /totally/ on par with GoT." Your take has solidified my prejudged dislike.

I abandoned Dark Matter with a giant eyeroll somewhere around the Evil Hot Lady Robot thing, or whatever that was? I'd spent pretty much all of the preceding eps trying to find ways in which it WASN'T a Firefly/BSG mashup and then I gave up. Should I go back? Is it worth it? The cast was mostly pretty good…

If the series in question have only 10-12 eps each season, I'll do it — just like I do for stupid HBO and Game of Thrones : subscribe for two months, watch the series, cancel immediately.

You mean the "Apollo Bangs A Prostitute and Whinges About The Fleet's Black Market" phase? Concur. Worrrrrst.

I really don't understand why they don't already do this — it seems so obvious that it would encourage more rentals AND more sales? Especially right-after-release rentals and sales, rather than people waiting around for it to show up as a $9.99 special.

Seriously? As soon as "lol, physical media" became as viable an option for movies/tv as it already was for music, I happily jumped right on board. I've got like…90-some-odd movies and quite a few seasons of a dozen or so shows in my iTunes library. A handful that I want to be able to watch/rewatch frequently are on my…

Maybe you should try different spirits? I find that apple brandy works best for the lathe, but tequila is more effective for the drill press.

This is one of the few instances where I like the side projects (Atlas Sound, Lotus Plaza) even better than the original band.

Looks like you've lock[ett]ed up the pun[dt]s for this one.

I assume (hope) they've improved it — the last time I tried it was about a year ago. Maybe it was just that one show! IDK, but it looked AWFUL, and the commercials and pop-ups were just overwhelming.

This does indeed work, with the caveat that holy shit most of the networks' own sites/players are SO. BAD. I tried to watch an ep of something — I think "The Good Wife"? — on CBS.com, and it was bizarrely dark, grainy, and had easily twice as many ads. To which I said "fuck it, I'll wait for the season to turn up on…

I'm fine with it not being 100% accurate (nostalgia-based stuff is rarely 100% accurate) as long as it's awesome, which it is. See also : theme music for Halt And Catch Fire (by trentmøller), which is also terrific.

I like describing it as "if Spielberg and John Carpenter collaborated on a Goonies/X-Files mashup," but your list works too.

OH MY GOD WHAT. Every time I read a line or description in Newswire that's particularly well-crafted, I scroll up to see the byline because "ha, that sounds like O'Neal" and I'm always disappointed. And I've been disappointed for so long that I DIDN'T SCROLL when I read "your-Dad-thought-he-could-still-skateboard…

I -adore- Pacific Rim, but I'll happily admit it's pretty damn vapid. Like Tron:Legacy, it's beautiful, cool-looking shit happens, 10-15 more minutes of world-building could've made it amazing, and did fucking seventh graders write this dialogue?

That's the violence inherent in the system.

Graham Chapman will always be my Arthur.