"There is a fairly strong case to be made that a few thousand took up
arms and uniforms for the south, primarily late in the war when the
Confederacy finally relented on its strict ban of arming slaves."

Yep. I actually thought that the meaning of that song is pretty clear and fairly meaningful for the platonic ideal of a radio pop song. Guy looks around and knows he's pretty lucky; he wonders how he'd cope with tragedy. The end.

President Obama ran against Senator John McCain in 2008.

Why wasn't "Down A Dark Hall" turned in a gothic, emo-filled movie in the 1990s, huh? (That's the only book of hers that I ever read, and it was very… goth).

No, it doesn't. It shows Gillian Anderson's pregnant stomach when she's abducted but it does not necessarily follow that Scully is pregnant. We are led to believe that is part of the procedure to extract Scully's ova.

Oh, you mean Emily. Scully wasn't actually "pregnant" with her. Her ova, her genetic material was used to create her but Mulder discovered that it was the old ladies in the nursing home who carried those babies to term.

If you read interviews, etc., over the years, yes, it seems clear that Darin Morgan has a difficult time producing scripts.

That episode was more than just "mostly watchable." It was great.

Government did abduct Scully and removed her ova. I think what got her pregnant wasn't established, though. I am still making my way through Season 9, though, so maybe they give more info there, but through season 8, they seem to be leaning heavily on "miracle, based on the strength of Mulder and Scully's love."

I can't imagine why anyone would mock what he's saying here. 6 episodes is too few. 22 is too many and I fear that David Duchovney and GIllian Anderson would have a nervous breakdown before agreeing to that again. But 10 to 12? Just right.

Nah. Try again. He's still a very handsome man, just an older one.

Lacking Frank Spotnitz, is my pet theory. Carter can write good episodes, but when it comes to his big ideas, he needs someone to wrestle him down to earth.

5. That it was funny enough to show twice.

I never watched The Good Wife, though I am aware of the criticisms people have of it. I actually don't mind minor nitpicks - it gives me something to Tweet about! - but yes, if I stick with this, I know I am likely to have even bigger problems.

Um, I wasn't arguing that Ferris Bueller is unimportant to the story, just that he isn't the star. Your argument doesn't counteract that.

My major problem with this was the idea that constituent service work is done out of the DC office. Though I can slightly justify it since the brother seems to be the Senator from Maryland.

If people ONLY watched the movie for Ferris's antics, then the movie would just be a madcap 80s teen comedy, like One Crazy Summer, that is fondly remembered but hardly considered a classic. The only reason why the movie has any enduring power is because of Cameron's character, who actually goes through an emotional…

How do you define "star"? I would say that the protagonist is the "star," even if the writer and director cleverly hides that fact by putting someone else's name in the title.

That doesn't actually make any sense.

I totally agree with this. Cameron's the star of that movie, not Ferris. It's an oddly structured movie, from that perspective, where the "best friend" is actually the one who experiences all of the growth and gets the true "coming of age" story.