Agreed. But I have a soft spot for Brian Blessed shouting in anything. (Which I suppose is redundant. Brian Blessed in anything.)

Agreed. But I have a soft spot for Brian Blessed shouting in anything. (Which I suppose is redundant. Brian Blessed in anything.)

Wow, not a time you want to hear the words "wrong head"!

Wow, not a time you want to hear the words "wrong head"!

Oh, god Chris Kattan's dependence on his crappy recurring characters was a nightmare. I suspect he could actually have been funnier than he made himself seem, if he'd just, yaknow, participated in sketches. But every time they forced us to sit through another Mango bit, it just increased the sense of dread at seeing…

Oh, god Chris Kattan's dependence on his crappy recurring characters was a nightmare. I suspect he could actually have been funnier than he made himself seem, if he'd just, yaknow, participated in sketches. But every time they forced us to sit through another Mango bit, it just increased the sense of dread at seeing…

Yeah, you're not meant to gaze directly upon the Snark of the Covenant.

Yeah, you're not meant to gaze directly upon the Snark of the Covenant.

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You're right that Season 5 suffers mostly by comparison — even at its worst (and Season 5 is definitely that), "West Wing" is still better than 95% of everything else on TV. But, personally, I feel like that works out to be MORE damning for it, not less. Watching Season 5 is the painful…

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You're right that Season 5 suffers mostly by comparison — even at its worst (and Season 5 is definitely that), "West Wing" is still better than 95% of everything else on TV. But, personally, I feel like that works out to be MORE damning for it, not less. Watching Season 5 is the painful…

@ Captcha Reader (very late): I haven't personally encountered it before, either, but I'm GUESSING that "Pressed" in that list might be short for "impressed" — used in a douchey, sarcastic way, to mean exactly the opposite.That's a shot-in-the-dark guess, anyway. *shrug*

@ Captcha Reader (very late): I haven't personally encountered it before, either, but I'm GUESSING that "Pressed" in that list might be short for "impressed" — used in a douchey, sarcastic way, to mean exactly the opposite.That's a shot-in-the-dark guess, anyway. *shrug*

Ah! You're absolutely right, adding Kate into the mix clearly defines all of the Argent family tree, and I was merely being slow.

Ah! You're absolutely right, adding Kate into the mix clearly defines all of the Argent family tree, and I was merely being slow.

On the issue of Gerard/Victoria, I think it could be argued that Gerard really put Victoria's assisted suicide into motion not because she'd been bitten (though that was his cover justification), but because it was an expedient way to both dispose of Victoria and to cement Alison's devotion/resolve. Lampshaded by that…

On the issue of Gerard/Victoria, I think it could be argued that Gerard really put Victoria's assisted suicide into motion not because she'd been bitten (though that was his cover justification), but because it was an expedient way to both dispose of Victoria and to cement Alison's devotion/resolve. Lampshaded by that…

The whole "alien-ness" aspect towards the end of the first Who is why I'm surprised to hear someone (Passing Nerd, above) who defends the McCoy years wouldn't find similar satisfaction in at least the Eccleston year of the new series.

Fitzlumpen's characterization of the Seventh Doctor sounds pretty on-track to me — and I, too, thought it could have been an interesting angle to let play out for a few more years, if only Syl and the show had been given the time, resources, and support to do so properly. Especially in the dark-jacket period, the…

In a nutshell…
I figured out where they went wrong with "Wild Green Yonder"…

I found "Billion Backs" extremely lacking, and it wasn't in anything as technical as the pacing, or the humor… it had a really fundamental flaw, one that only really bugged me AFTER watching the movie.