You can still mine tension from the current iteration. Just because you know the outcome doesn't mean the tension has evaporated. It's possibly harder, but it also seemed that tension was coming from a lot of other places in the pilot, especially the relationship between the lead and the double agent.

I'm sure somebody's said this, but DeLonge isn't missing a direct object in his title, he's missing a complement. Okay, so I'm an ass.

That poor Rickenbacker.

A problem, too, I guess, is that they took the movie and switched genres. They've become gore now, which the first was really not. Gore is a sub-genre that doesn't appeal as broadly as psychological horror. That might have contributed to its dismissal as just torture porn.

Yeah, I was reachin'

I really like the first Saw—enough to watch the second, but after that I realized every other sequel was probably going to just be an attempt to kill people in new interesting ways. Very similar to the Final Destination movies, take a good premise and turn it into a chance to suck people's anuses through a swimming…

I think Dennis Perkins is wrong about fast zombies, at least in 28 Days Later. I think that what Boyle did with zombies was, firstly and attempt to be fresh, and, secondly, raises questions about a society that prizes physical abilities and aggressiveness over intellectualism—e.g. the rise of college athletics at the…

I think he's right about the roman colloseum bit, anyhow. I recall seing headlines from The Atlantic saying, "The Woody Allen Debate Belongs in the Public Sphere." I mean we're talking about the same magazine founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Longfellow to name a few. It's just sad that this is…

Her line, "Don't talk to me like I'm other people," could be from any Sorkin script, take your pick: http://www.youtube.com/watc… (btw, it's that famous Sorkinism supercut video)

Did anyone catch 4:47 in when Sara Lance dropped a great big Sorkinism? It was glorious.