Totally. Should have made it clear that last paragraph was a general comment, not a specific slam on Warehouse-13. It's a pleasure to quibble around the edges of something so many shows just get horribly, fundamentally wrong.

Yup - and in-show, can Pete be kind of an ass who needs to work on his brain/mouth filter (and gets called on it every time)? Yup... But he's also a man who treats the women around him with a refreshing baseline of respect (both as human beings and colleagues); and rather endearingly not only maintains a civil…

Fair points, well made. Can't say I was terribly upset when Todd and Kelly Hernandez packed up and left town. (How unmemorable were their respective storylines in season 2? I had to look their names up on Wikipedia.) And the Eureka cross-overs never convinced me to board the Clargo ship — Fargo and Claudia's…

Yes, it was a weak show. Yes, what it could have been was so much better than it what it was. But to my teenaged brain it was AMAZING.

Thanks for that insightful insult too... I guess...

I don't want Warehouse-13 to turn into SF's bi-curious Grey's Anatomy, but if Steve has had any kind of "flirt" with anyone, beyond his close friendship with Claudia (which is totes awesome, don't get me wrong) I missed it.

One of the many cool things about Warehouse 13 is that the cast now includes Steve Jinks, a gay man who's a three-dimensional character and isn't defined by his sexuality.

Between you and me, I am so tired of that cliche. Ratings down? Hot Lesbians and bisexual women!

Yeah, but what really made me want to throttle a Tribble (no, that's not a sex thing) about Voyager is that it was an awesome, fresh premise (like DS9)... and the resulting show began to wimp out from all it's implications pretty much before the end of the pilot. There's over-reliance on the reset button, and there's…

... because an unknown someone murdered her in front of him for reasons nobody knew. (And The Rainmaker did such a good job of almost destroying all information about himself, Old Joe's mission was complicated with the necessity to kill three children born in the same hospital around the same time to cover his bases.)

And to be fair to Rian Johnson, it's not as if Old-Joe killed the one child he did in a torture-porny, Tarantino-esque blood bath. It's kind of more awful because it's implied, as opposed to the violence elsewhere in the movie. (I can go the rest of my life without ever seeing Garret Dillahunt get the full-body Scan…

As I said elsewhere, one thing I love about Looper is the same neo-noir sensibility Rian Johnson showed in Brick and The Brothers Bloom. This is not a film genre where anyone is particularly sympathetic, and the most you can say about the ostensible hero is at least he's kinda-sorta self-aware of what a wretched…

Beyonce, call your office! "If you want it, then you shoulda glued an owl on it!"

I'm no fashionista, but this look said less "steampunk" than "Pussycat Dolls do half-arsed Comic-Con." Was this intentional?

I know this is a controversial notion, but that's why Dee's suicide in BSG just broke my heart into a million pieces — it had context, weight and consequence. (And outside the frame of the show, it's something I couldn't help but suspect was happening an awful lot in the fleet. How much unspeakable tragedy can you…

For me, the meta-issue with Star Trek (and a lot of SF) is the overuse of the reset button. If nothing ever really sticks - and has real and lasting consequences - then does anything really matter? One interesting angle to look at BSG from is Ron Moore saying "What would Star Trek do?" then doing the exact opposite.…

Totally agree with you — one thing I liked about Looper a lot is that Rian Johnson is really getting deep "noir." Not even Emily Blunt's mother is particularly sympathetic: FFS, she dumped her kid on her sister because she didn't want to give up being a party girl in the city. And, boy, is she living with the…

Don't be an arsehole. Hey, I have real problems with Breaking Bad because I know people who've had their REAL LIVES destroyed by crystal meth so it's hard for me to invest in the life of meth cooks. Agree with me or not, but please don't say it's somehow illegitimate to bring my RW experiences to how I relate to pop…

Nope - it's been quite carefully set up that Future Joe is well out of range, and someone who's already bent on being a serial child killer isn't going to give his past self a sporting chance to stop him. Really.

So I do worry about science fiction's habit of presenting death as the easy escape route from every insoluble paradox.