"Jodie Foster's Army"

Shit, you're right! Good catch. I didn't put it together.

If only they'd put out a decent fucking soundtrack album rather than that abomination with the dialogue and sfx all over it. (Yes, I watched the clip and it's great; well done everyone. But I bought the record because I want to hear the music.)

I've never seen Julee Cruse look so good!

I'm coming from a place of 200% loyalty to the original series and I wasn't alienated in the least.

Nobody complained that the pilot was slow.

Just the sheer hubris, I think.

I thought this was a great episode and I can't understand all the negativity. Each development had me giggling with glee, and the character bits were all great. I love string of sudden reversals this season. I love how Jared has developed into a formalized comic mechanism — we have these anticipatory pauses when we…

I think that's a very good guess.

She sells it. It's all about her reaction shots — acting and editing. (The music helps too.)

My dad worked on the original Sesame Street so I know something about its development.

"…and he's got a big KNOB"

Keira needs to stop smoking cigarettes. It's tragic what she's doing to her face.

I think you may have been more correct than me.

You're welcome. I re-read it on impulse a couple of months ago and was frankly stunned at how brilliant, timeless and relevant it is. It's improved with age (way more than have, for example, Watchmen or The Dark Knight Returns).

These days it's ruled by Smaug.

I was also thinking of V For Vendetta's excellent use of "The Land of Do-As-You-Please" (which is probably some actual Victorian cultural relic that Alan Moore's familiar with).

Monsieur Derrida's Neighborhood

Interesting that Rogers' "home" was just as much make-believe as the other locale (especially given the model in the establishing shots).

Yeah, that was cool too!