Hmm, patronizing? OK, if so, then my apologies to Shirin. I was trying to give her the benefit of the doubt.

Shirin did nothing but blame herself for getting voted off, and perhaps she had good reason to do that, but the edit sure didn't show us much of that. Mostly it just showed us Shirin failing at Crazy Nutcase Management, just like Francesca failed at Crazy Nutcase Management. When you have a temperamental,…

So, uh, not a fan of Steven Moffat then, is that what you're saying?

Not the CW, though. Instead of a month, it's usually only about a week, or in this case, day-of. Which is ridiculous. Give people a month, or at least two weeks, to binge that previous season and then they'll be primed to watch the new season live. Day-of doesn't give enough time for binging.

I don't know what you're talking about. This tiresome ranting about "warped, PC modern attitudes" doesn't have anything to do with my point. My main point was that Leela randomly wanders off to marry somebody she barely knew and who had only a few minutes of screentime. With Susan, the writers actually did some…

Probably tempting, yet the big problem is that would encourage people who haven't seen it to go back and watch "Trial of a Time Lord" and you really don't want thousands of newer viewers suffering through that unresolved heap of chaos and gibberish.

I'm loath to be that insufferable nerd who constantly says "Classic Who did it better!" but in this ONE case, it's true, some (not all) of the classic Doctor Who incidental music was far, far better than the frequently-schmaltzy, heavy-handed conformist pablum we get in modern Who. Sometimes classic Who's musical…

Lollapalooza '92 (outside D.C.) was the only place I ever got to see them and I missed a big chunk of their set due to traffic, but from what I saw, they were spectacular. Definitely better than any of the other bands there.

Yeah, that bit in "Last of the Time Lords" is probably why Internet commenters keep floating this idea. Just seems hard to figure out a way to do it practically. I don't know what the tenth Doctor was thinking, ha ha. He was just being overly sentimental, surely. Twelve doesn't seem like he'd entertain such potential…

Seemed kind of sexist for a strong female character, unless she had really good chemistry with this dude. Who the hell was this guy? He didn't seem very interesting. They just came up with the first possible excuse to write her out and it was the laziest idea imaginable.

Error: Phase one of the Second Ave. line will not be the T train. It'll be an extension of the Q. The T will not exist until phases three and four, which aren't even funded yet, so who knows if they'll ever happen?

The mayor randomly started jabbering about a Utica Avenue extension for southern Brooklyn a while back, since East Flatbush doesn't have much in the way of subway service, but he has nothing to back this up. He seems to have just been talking out of his ass. Would it be an extension of the 4, which is already…

Of course, what's really frustrating is that the new South Ferry station had that awesome "tempered air" — I could be wrong, but I think it's that natural air conditioning thing that brings up cool air from deep underground — and then of course the hurricane flooded it and destroyed it, and the MTA had to switch back…

Plenty of commenters have floated this idea before, but I wonder how it could really work on a practical level. The Doctor would have to find a technical way to "defang" Missy before letting her into his TARDIS, much like Spike was defanged with a chip in his brain that stopped him from killing people so he could be…

The only previous Dalek-Master team-up (the very end of "Frontier in Space") was really seriously incredibly lame. So maybe it could be done correctly for the first time ever. Sort of like how nobody should ever remake anything that was excellent in the first place (Robocop anyone?).

Ratings-wise, Nashville has just BARELY squeaked by. It's been teetering on the edge of utter catastrophe for years now.

The first four seasons of POI are on Netflix (U.S.) now, and if you jump in at around episode 19 or so, you'll get to some pretty great Michael Emerson stuff pretty quickly, and then some other great actors start to join the cast. I agree that Jim Caveziel is often not very good, and occasionally I wish they'd kill…

I stand corrected. I didn't catch the part where they removed the language in the voting agreement. My apologies, I should never attempt to quote anything I heard more than two days ago. I've got a memory like a cheesecloth soaked in acid.

That's precisely the standard number of commercials. That's NOT to say that this isn't a gigantic fuckload of commercials. It IS a gigantic fuckload of commercials. But that's the normal amount these days, Glob help us.

I was going to bring that up too, but there are surely some folks who think the voting was entirely rigged, and others (Purple Rock podcast guys IIRC) who think the producers fiddled perhaps just slightly with the process and heavily favored some of the more dramatic and nutty contestants over other, less exciting…