When I'm a glutton for high octane speedlines and nose-bleed velocity, I like to play a double feature of Speed Racer and Takeshi Koike's Redline.

Those are pretty cool. They certainly hit the 80s mountain-o-hair requirements.

Whoever put that "Okay two sodas, a number 3, and a frostie. Did you want fries with that?" tag at the end.... you have won the day. I'm laughing so hard I'm nearly crying. :)

Man, that character never gets half the attention and focus he deserves.

I remain firmly convinced that every time an elderly person dies, it's like watching a massive library burn down. We do not treasure the wisdom and stories from our elders in this country as much as we should.

I am moderately entertained and mostly amused by this show. The dialogue is as wooden as a lumber yard and some of the characterization even more rife with splinters.

Tell 'em about the Twinkie.

*makes mocking faces at serenada*

That would be me. I'm absolutely with you in not understanding the religious zealotry of the fandom. But I do think the show was very strong in its ideas and the world it constructed. Especially for a show that had only its actors and cheaper-than-chips 'western' sets to bolster it. Very few sci-fi shows are quite so…

yeah. The writer's passing fancy with the pressures of what I call the 'the juggle' is part of the reason that show bugs the hell out of me. They're not really sincere about Dexter being spread extremely thin in his Dad role vs. his darker tendencies.

Yes, it's still being talked about in niche fan environments (cons etc) but it never expanded much of its audience outside of those, either via the show, the DVD sales or the movie (which as I recall had pretty strong advertising in the run-up to its premiere). Geek discourse is great and all. But it doesn't…

*backs up very slowly*

Yeah, the kids have certainly fallen all but completely off that show's planet, haven't they?

Greatest juxtaposition of headline and image yet. *slow clap*

But they've telegraphed his more violent tendencies (and Dexter's worry about them) in multiple episodes. And if that show does anything, it's telegraph plot lines and character direction with all the subtlety of a drum and bugle corps.

Furthermore, Firefly represents a true tragedy of network bungling and incompetence – a victim of a bunch of fat-cat TV execs who not only can’t appreciate the capital that they have in a series like Firefly but are completely unable to recognize those elements which make a memorable, watchable, fan-base generating…

What family reunions are you going to? :-O

Because addiction, or the genetic predisposition towards addiction, is a sloppy and purely speculative attempt on the part of writers as the end-all, be-all reasoning behind why serial killers do what they do. No one has EVER proven there exists a serial killing gene.

Except, as I recall, one was an infant and the odds of two people manifesting the same serial killer tendencies to the same trauma is more than a little specious. Three if you count Harrison. It gets more than a little threadbare as an explanation.

Any explanation has to be better than the Dexter explanation. Who knew that serial killing was so genetically dominant, shared by two brothers or possibly from father to son? :-\