A much beloved teacher steered me toward AWIT when she saw I was bored with what we were offered in fifth grade. It was my first genre fiction, and started me on a lifetime of reading. I never read another L'Engle book though, as I quickly found the "youth" books of Asimov, Heinlein, and Bradbuy and moved on to the…

Wait, I partially take it back about TNG. I forgot about Wesley Crusher. Now I've got to forget about him again, dammit.

Well put, Jim. I'd add the same about TNG and DS9. You seldom got that feeling that these people don't belong at their jobs, and when you did there were consequences. Not quite so much with VOY and ENT, but still nothing like 90210.

Him and Monk.

Wife and I played 'Somebody's Getting Married' and the "Life's like a movie, write your own ending" part of the finale from TMM for our wedding. No Rainbow though. Not that I don't love the song, but everybody does that one.

Immortal isn't always indestructible.

Star Trek 90210

I'm going out to see Alice tomorrow, just because Cameron is an asshat. In 2-D! Suck on that, Cameron.

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I had to pour myself a scotch at the end of every episode.

Good point. Jacob sure didn't seem broken up about it, and he can be a manipulatin' bastard.

@ The Sea Captain:
You're the only commenter here pointing out the seeming cause/effect relationship between Jacob's ghost instructing Hurley to guide somebody to the island and Widmore's arrival. I don't know if Widmore is who Jacob was calling or if he was counting on him to bring someone else (Desmond?) but I doubt…

I wouldn't be so sure. Jacob instructed Hurley to help someone get to the island. When Jack broke the lighthouse, Jacob said something like "no doubt he'll find his own way here". And now Widmore shows up. Coincidence?

I like a lot of it, but the ending makes me very, very angry every time I see it. They get the 'lesson' exactly wrong. What Dorothy should have learned was that with heart, and brains, and courage, and the help of your friends, you can do anything. Baum couldn't have been clearer. Instead, she resolves to never leave…

He wasn't. He was Sam.

Except for those 'Hands on a Hardbody' contests.

Natalie was totally game in that, but I'm still born and raised on Team MaryAnn. And, I understand she likes the chronic.

Maybe you should get to the train station earlier.

I just finished watching the first season of DS9 for the first time since it originally aired and I believe it has probably the best Trek/dreck ratio of any first season since TOS. Yeah, it's a bit uneven, but they already seem to know where they're going and a few episodes rank with the best of the franchise,…

Somewhere back in the Eighties I read an essay by Asimov taking about the portrayals of robots in the movies and on TV. The only thing I remember specifically was he was quite taken by the robot played by Julie Newmar on 'My Living Doll'. He was all for that model. Of course, he was a self-identified dirty old man.

They already did that show in the Sixties (http://www.imdb.com/title/t….