A story arc over six episodes would have had the length of at least two or three feature films. I think that's more than enough time to tell a fairly good story. Personally, I always preferred the slower-moving episodes—the ones that built up the suspense and psychological tension gradually—much more than the running…

"I'm sorry, but was there an actual alien invasion that I missed back in the '90s or something?"

Yeah, I had a similar reaction. The problem is that the new episodes feel like they exist in some kind of limbo, completely out of time, whereas the original series felt rooted to its particular time, which is probably why it in many ways helped define a particular nineties cultural zeitgeist. On the other hand, the…

So essentially you think that the biggest problem with the new episodes is the look, pacing, mood and writing. OK. My concern is with its lack of originality or creativity. Apart from the writing, which at least in the first and last episodes, I agree were not good, we're not talking about the same things at all. I…

Tell me what the huge difference was between the current show and the old one, because apart from the actors looking noticeably older, I can't for the life of me think about a single thing that we saw in the last five weeks that we didn't see in one form or another back in the '90s.

Well, this was disappointing. Or am I stating the obvious?

Agent Carter's ratings have tanked. In all likelihood, it won't be renewed in any case.

You're right that Saudi Arabia drove oil prices below what would be profitable for the production of alternative energy sources, but what's keeping prices so low is speculation on the futures market. I've heard that there are now soup kitchens in Saudi Arabia, because people don't have enough money to buy food. Most…

Well, "better" is relative. I don't think AVP is a good movie, 'cause it's not, not by a long shot. What I meant was that AVP doesn't have characters that do really, really dumb things, the ancient astronaut angle is handled better, and while I personally don't like having the Predator and Alien inhabit the same…

I guarantee nothing. But, yeah, I little part of me died…

After so many people defended Prometheus to me, I went back and rewatched it, and it was actually worse than I remembered it, if that's even possible. You should watch AVP and Prometheus back-to-back just to feel the creeping realization that AVP is the better movie and shiver in the terror of that thought…

Probably in the Blade Runner sequel…

And yet, after seeing AVP, James Cameron said it was the third-best Alien movie. Putting AVP and Prometheus head-to-head, AVP actually comes out better, in spite of Prometheus's better special effects and Michael Fassbender. Since Lindelof has apparently seen AVP, I wonder if he told Scott about the plot similarities…

Low expectations actually make Ridley Scott films better. Even still, with my expectations duly lowered, Prometheus was incredibly disappointing. I don't even want to think about how shitty a sequel to a shitty movie could possibly be…

You've summed it up beautifully. But you forgot AVP. Yes, I know it was trashed when it originally came out, but after watching Prometheus, AVP's ancient astronaut story actually makes more sense than Prometheus, and the characters in AVP behave reasonably sensibly. And what's really ironic is that while all the…

Ridley Scott realized, probably sometime after reading the reviews for Prometheus, that the story made no sense whatsoever, and he had no idea what he was doing or how the heck he could answer all the questions Lindelof left unanwered, all his bullshit about knowing exactly what he was trying to do with this Alien…

By all indications so far, this has the telltale hallmarks of a disaster. Someone needs to retcon the Engineers out of existence, and right-quick…

Get off my lawn!

Huh? "Like" is defined as "having the same characteristics or qualities as" or "similar to," whereas "unlike" means "different from" or "dissimilar to." And "but," when used at the beginning of a sentence, indicates a contrast with a previous statement. They don't mean the same at all. Anyway, I don't want to get…

But unlike coming home, I can watch over two-hundred episodes of X-Files that were produced decades ago, and that are exactly the same as the new ones, any damn time I want. If X-Files was only available a couple days a year, like Thanksgiving or Christmas, than I'd be more excited. As it is, I was expecting some…