That seems to be the overall strategy to winning at Jeopardy.  

$460, 479, which is coming pretty close to what we would call “fuck you” amounts of money.

How could you not like BSG80 with those awesome flying motorcycles?

I’ll never get the defenses of BSG. Moore was open about the fact that they were making it up as they went. And if that had all worked out, then great. But a lot of cracks show in the back half of the show, and it’s likely mostly due to lack of planning. Of course, no show is ever truly planned out from the start, but…

Actually I don’t think it is.

Yeah, to me the two big issues there were that a) it was extremely silly to reveal that a bunch of characters are Cylons but then decree that they’re special Cylons who are nothing like the other flesh-and-blood Cylons we’ve already met, and b) it was super dumb to double down on the “Cylons can’t reproduce” angle…

And let’s not forget randomly turning four characters into Cylons purely for shock value, only to then realize “Oh crap, we forgot one of these guys has a kid and Cylons being infertile has been a huge part of the story from the start! Better throw in that his wife actually slept with this other guy once who she’s…

agreed. it had seven years on two networks and several different tone shifts to account for.There was no way to nail that one down correctly, but allowing the move for Spike to Angel for it’s last season was probably the best possible thing.

To paraphrase Lisa Simpson, “You really can see into the . . . past.”

Ron Moore got bored with Battlestar Galactica, didn’t have a plan for concluding it, and wanted to move on. I certainly don’t agree that the religion plotline was there from the beginning.

There’s a huge difference, though, between “Religion is a key throughline” and “A divine being is actively directing the major events of the series in a way that is essentially magic.” After all, religious belief of one kind or another is a key throughline for a lot of people in the real world as well, but we don’t…

I love DS9 to bits, and the ending was almost completely great, but it dropped the ball on something that I just couldn’t fathom - that Sisko would leave Jake, and way more importantly, his unborn child like that.

My favorite season finale ever (at least it was until the show got rebooted) was Futurama. It didn’t offer any finality, or even really answer the will they/won’t they question, but it was so beautiful and sweet and it really summed up how well the show melded comedy and heart together.

I ended up liking the movie more because it focused on the only memorable element of the entire story: woman vs dog in a fight for survival where the technological advantages and thinking power of the human has been crippled to bring her down to the dog’s level. EVERYTHING else is King sprawl:

Books like that are why King is the master, despite his misfires.  First-person (dog) perspective from an animal slipping into madness would read as straight-up stupid from almost any other writer.

Yeah, that song flat-out rules. Loved that they brought the Ramones in after them being a runner in the book.

The original was not a bad movie. It kinda fell apart at the end but that happened in the book too... But everything that led up to that was a nice slow build of tension earmarked by a career high for Herman Munster. Somehow I doubt the remake is going to be any better...

correction on 3. The so-amazing-it’s-amazing Ramones song.

Never got around to that one, though I’d be willing to bet good money that Tommyknockers and Rose Madder’s second half (both of which I did read) could give it a run for its money.

From the trailers, I like that Lithgow delivered the big lines in a much more understated way and with a much less over the top accent, but still sold it (it wasn’t like he was going to top Gwynne’s line reading from the original)