Was he also responsible for the Bionic Woman reboot? I've fortunately blotted most info about it from my memory.

The X-Files demonstrated the perils of serialized storytelling in the old model of network tv, wherein as long as the show kept getting decent ratings, the network would keep renewing it. That resulted in the show constantly having to move the goalposts for where the story was heading until it became an incoherent…

Bushrod Johnson eagerly hopes to no longer be the only person in history named Bushrod.

Speaking of The Flying Nun, how the heck did that ever survive the pitch meeting? "She's a nun! And she flies! In Puerto Rico! We'll get Gidget to play her!" Who the hell scribbles down a concept like that without immediately crumpling up the paper and swearing off the rotgut?

I remember Todd Luiso more from Jerry Maguire than from High Fidelity, so I declare THAT to be his most high profile achievement. So there!

That is one of the saddest cartoons of all time. Just thinking about how hopeful that poor cat would get when it imagined the family is making me get misty eyed. Damn that movie.

The death of the coyote mother and baby (I forget their names right at moment) in Walter Wangerin's The Book of Sorrows, when they're trampled by the stag, who then runs himself to death trying to escape his guilt. That book is fucking magnificent in its level of heartbreak, especially considering that it comes out of…

Shouldn't the cheer squad have had a faculty advisor? Someone to at least provide a credit card for the air fare to the nationals?

I like 90s era X-Men. There! I said it! Yeah, there was a lot of ridiculousness along the way, but I thought for the most part there was a good balance between the soap opera aspects, action and the illusion that the story was actually going somewhere, even if it never got there. Onslaught was a total botch of a…

Yeah, I was puzzled by the statement that not many people would consider Lyle Lovett to be a great artist. I guess that's technically true if you take into account all 8 billion people on the planet. However, if you're just considering the opinions of moderately well informed fans of American popular music, he's about…

I wouldn't go quite so far as to rank it with their best, but it's better than its reputation. It's U2' s most unassuming album, but U2 is not a band that's comfortable being unassuming, so they idiotically wrapped it up in a grandiose gesture that they apparently didn't foresee backfiring on them to th extent it did.…

I liked Bring It On and was fascinated by its depiction of a high school with seemingly no adult faculty whatsoever.

I've wanted to see a Marvin the Marvelous Muggle comic ever since it was mentioned that it was Ron Weasley's favorite comic. I just want to see what a wizard's idea of the adventures of a muggle would be, so I second the call for Rowling to write a comic.

Why did Loki get captured on purpose in the first Avengers movie? To break up a group that formed in the process of capturing him on purpose? I never have been able to cipher out that plot point. Then Skyfall repeated it note for note, where I also couldn't't coax out the logic.

I'd rather not, Mr. Throat Warbler Mangrove. But thanks for the offer.

I hate the whole "experiencing something traumatic has little effect on me" business in movies and tv. But sometimes it's taken to such a ridiculous extreme that it becomes funny. I loved the moment in the first Percy Jackson movie when Percy sees his mother disintegrated before his eyes and his only reaction is a…

They both have the same sort of pointy nose, which gives them a certain familial look.

It would definitely be interesting to hear Robert Patrick handling the vocals on Filter songs.

I had always hoped Winona Ryder and Jordana Brewster would show up as Liz Lemon's sisters on 30 Rock. And Paget Brewster and Amy Acker need to play sisters in something.

Yeah, it was a different world back then. I can recall a brief article in either Starlog or its companion mag Future right after the original Star Wars came out where he was discussing revelations in upcoming movies, such as Darth Vader being Luke's father and Vader having been injured in a light saber duel with…