If I'm a prison guard I quit.

Yes, the model train monologue with all of its marvelous detail was a thing of beauty.

I can't believe they made the stars thing explicit!

My feelings about this show are encapsulated in the scene in which Erica threatens Katana Girl's dad. The way it's shot and the characters' movements and speech and the pacing just all lack presence. It feels like it's meant to be a tense, sinister scene but comes across as bad theater.

Question! If the Gems are "a space-faring race designed to conquer other worlds," from whom are they conquering these worlds? What is the enemy of their war machine empire?

They really got me with this one. I was so unhappy about what was happening that the late pivot caught me off guard, and as the conversation kept escalating far longer than I expected so did my relief! In the end I was practically crying from laughter—not merely the funny kind, but the glad kind.

While it makes sense that the gems prefer gravity similar to ours since they are of similar form and size to us, that merely moves the contingency up a level. It's equally arbitrary that they just happen to be humanoid creatures of humanoid size when they, as alien beings, could have had forms of unintelligible…

We also saw another Pearl whose gemstone was in a different spot, so that differentiation wasn't unique to the Rubies. That's just a natural variance among gems of the same type, apparently.

I'm disappointed that they walked back Cat IDing "Kira" as Supergirl. Trusting her to keep that secret might have been an interesting new dynamic. Instead, they treated the plot point as a short-term crisis to resolve.

Does this mean no more Other Space? That would be a real shame.

It's not about Jesus, but I also love the title track on Seven Swans for taking a turn and becoming surprisingly terrifying, which is an appropriate response to contemplating a god, especially that of the Old Testament:

This is the funniest and most entertaining that Doctor Who has been in quite some time. I don't want the show to be this daffy (or this openly sweet, for that matter) all the time, but tonight I loved it.

The Man in the High Castle is beautifully produced and fairly interesting, but, while I didn't dislike Juliana or Frank, the show spends far too much time mired in their rote stories. All of that time spent in Canon City, for example, could have been condensed by excising the Marshall story.

This list does not include Winters from Earthbound and is therefore useless.

I completely agree, and that's an excellent example. Limiting lives really does add something to Mega Man.

This is dumb. Limited lives are appropriate and valuable for some game designs and not for others because different games have different structures and aim to create different kinds of failure states. Yes, Mario should have done away with lives a long time ago, but, no, bullet hell shmups shouldn't get rid of them. …

The scene in which Tigh declares martial law is quintessential Galactica, the defining moment of the series for me, because what the show accomplished so well was to really make you feel that this tiny, fragile fleet was all that remained of humanity and then to make you watch in horror as flawed people allowed it to…

After a few really exciting episodes, this one seemed rather bloodless and anticlimactic. I think it was a pacing issue.

Watching someone be mean to Riki Lindhome strains believability.

How does showing us that their attack failing means the entire city is vaporized *not* raise the stakes from the given problem of just two characters we barely know getting murdered? Savage's threat seemed more like what he would do if the Hawks weren't brought to him, a threat made for leverage, not what he would do…