It is nice when games can bounce back from a shaky launch. After a few months’ worth of patches, Fallout: New Vegas went from being a cautionary tale to setting a new standard in flexible game design. When Mass Effect 3 added the Citadel DLC, the baffling resolution to the Reaper conflict seemed less important. Heck,…

Even in the theatre, I found the “greatest hits” aspect of the movie to be pretty hokey. While people were applauding the reveal of the Millennium Falcon, I was rolling my eyes.

However, I did really like the way the way that The Force Awakens set up interesting mysteries and character dynamics for the new characters,…

Whenever I see that “Rick and Morty” is going to do a very specific pop culture riff, I always come in with my eyebrow pre-cocked, so to speak.

I did like the idea of the Planeteers having grown up into greedy and cynical opportunists, but the storyline really peaked with that moment when Morty took their rings. The…

I heard about publicist who derisively said “The Fresh Prince will never be a movie star”, and then spent the next ten years working as a garbage man.

Yeah. It’s very believable that Ben Affleck’s character would naively assume that any musical playing on Broadway in a post-Giuliani NYC should be fine for all ages.

If it was really Worf, you would have easily incapacitated him to show how much of a threat you were.

I don’t know everything about the business and editorial workings of this site, but I do know that they have a small staff and a limited budget for freelancers. So the decision of whether a show gets full episodic coverage comes down to two things: a) will the reviews get enough traffic to justify the expense?, and b) …

Yeah. I was super-proud of myself for figuring out every puzzle in Portal 2 on my own (I needed help with a few of the later puzzles in the original Portal). Even though it’s twice as long as the original, I still went through it in a single day.

Aren’t we forgetting a little show called The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin ?

But I certainly agree that the sort of serialization that existed in primetime TV changed in the early 2000s, and that DS9 was hugely influential on that change. Prior to 2002 or so, most primetime genre TV shows had a “conflict of the week”…

I loved Harmon’s scathing rebuke of the Nielson system. 

After this movie bombed, Kevin Smith’s Jersey Girl was heavily recut to downplay the “Bennifer” angle of the film. Lopez’s scenes were blended into an Up-like montage, six years before Up. It could have worked (like it did in Up) but it didn’t.

I thought that Jersey Girl had some good moments. The part where Affleck’s…

I think the episode was thematically good, but structurally poor. It was a mistake to sideline the main cast for most of the finale in favor of a guest star parade.

Miami Vice went out the same way. The two-hour finale aired in May sweeps. Three more episodes aired in June. And an episode about child trafficking which NBC refused to air turned up in syndication the following year. 

Pretty much every show I watched in syndication before 1997 or so would cycle through the episodes in chronological order. The network or the distributer might put an episode in the wrong place by mistake, they might omit particular episodes or seasons (usually early seasons, especially if they were in black and white…

Is Spot.IM still a thing?

The Practice did at least have a nice farewell for Ellenor, Eugene and Jimmy.

BONUS COOKIE MONSTER TALK PAGE HIGHLIGHTS

TALK PAGE HIGHLIGHTS

I’ve been burned while playing games with a finite amount of health packs and ammo, and no way to backtrack (specifically Parasite Eve) so I’m always extremely frugal with my consumables .

“Kimono My House” if you want glam rock,
“No 1 Song in Heaven” if you want 70s synth-pop,
“Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins” if you want 90s synth-pop,
“Hello Young Lovers” or “Hippopotamus” if you want weirdo grown-up art pop.