I couldn't help but think, "Whatever you guys do, don't let Rick Grimes anywhere near this place." Within a week, there'd be (a) walkers breaking through the gates; (b) buildings catching on fire and burning down; (c) an attack by random psychos; or (d) all of the above.

Yeah, though this comes back to a problem I've had for a while now: there's plenty of land out there, and basic resources are still plentiful enough to be scavenged. Yes, there are zombies around, but everyone knows how to kill them. So why can't people who don't like their leader, or who don't get along with each…

That's what makes the show so frustrating sometimes. There seems to be some recognition that Rick has become a pretty frightening and violent person who shouldn't necessarily be trusted, but it doesn't follow through on it.

I watch TWD out of a sort of curiosity, I guess, though I did think Season 1 was pretty good. I'm interested to see how a relatively popular television show approaches the idea of civilization collapsing, but it seems to have gotten on this track of just being relentlessly cynical all the time, where everybody is…

What they needed here was for Dr. Rumack from "Airplane" to show up.

Something else: shouldn't the remaining "original" Alexandrians be pretty fed up with Rick and the rest of his group at this point. I mean, since they arrived, all of the following happened:

At this point, I'm mostly just watching TWD out of curiosity and to see if the show ever really deals with the more unsettling implications of many of the characters' cynicism and brutality. I actually thought this episode wasn't too bad on its own terms, but it's still either ducking or muddling the more problematic…

For me, the morality systems aren't so much about changing the narrative as crafting a character. Fallout 3's karma system is goofy, partly for the reasons you mentioned, but the choices you can make would mostly have the same consequences regardless of whether they had karma points attached. With Mass Effect I have…

I came into this without any particular expectations and found it acceptable as setup, though continuing with an hour of random weirdness like this every week won't work in the long term. I'm more familiar with Hitchhiker's Guide than Dirk Gently, though I did read both Dirk Gently novels back in the early '90s. The…

I've frequently thought that one area where modern sci-fi - Star Trek included - sometimes could be more imaginative is in the possibility of intelligent alien life forms who are very different from us psychologically. Even the Vulcans could be mistaken for extremely dispassionate and emotionally controlled humans.…

Yeah, I got the impression that the Doctor was in a very dark place during Eccleston's tenure . While he could be Mr. Manic Energy at times, he also turned downright ruthless a few times (particularly when the Daleks showed up) and seemed to have a hard time even talking about the Time War. It also fits well with what…

I actually thought the Cybermen were the most effective in their first appearance in "The Tenth Planet." They really did come off as entirely devoid of both malice and empathy - they had no particular wish to harm anyone, but they would do so without apology if it was required to ensure their own survival. You got the…

Was he thinking of having Eccleston's Doc be the one to have supposedly ended the Time War by using The Moment? Or do you just mean that Eccleston declined to appear in general?

I'm more of an old-Who fan, but I saw this when it came out and I've watched it a couple times since. I didn't hate it, and it was an entertaining enough story on its own, but there were some truly odd creative choices where I was left wondering what was the point. Specifically:

Finally got around to watching the last two episodes on DVR this weekend, and I have to say I'm decidedly underwhelmed.

I had similar thoughts - a lot of running around to accomplish not very much, and Theo can be kind of arrogant and annoying even when he's right. I was also unsure why they were even pursuing Margaret so aggressively. While it's possible that she'll still decide to rally the other abbies for an attack on the town if…

It seemed that Group A were told the whole story from early on and that Pilcher and the other powers-that-be drastically underestimated how disorienting and frightening this revelation would be. With Group B, they let the adults think they were kidnapped within the present day and just not allowed to leave, relying on…

Jason is just a complete disaster as leader. It's like he's so consumed with the need to project confidence and fulfill his "destiny" that he won't even let himself think critically about what's happening right in front of him. Even if he doesn't like the idea of collaborating with the Abbies or acknowledging their…

I'm at least rooting for some sort of human/abbie reconciliation at this point. If I wanted to see characters choosing unnecessarily violent solutions to their problems and then claiming they "had to do it to survive," I'd cue up an episode of The Walking Dead.

Right, but it seems like this society isn't being driven primarily by anti-gay prejudice - the way it was presented, I'm assuming Lucy's brother would be just as anxious if he'd been diagnosed as infertile or if he were asexual. The idea that they can't see how someone can contribute to society without reproducing…