"(T)he conclusion I would draw is that, given time, scientists will figure out the answer and all the hand-wringing is, in the long-run, wrong and pointless."

Fair point. Flaws and all though, Lost is still one of my favorite series. They didn't quite stick the landing, but they put forward some excellent episodes throughout the show's run.

As an atheist myself, I have no problems with the show's treatment of faith. I think It's important to note that the show doesn't hold up any one belief system as the "correct" one.

As stated in the review, The Leftovers covers faith in a variety of forms, from faith the conventional religious sense (e.g. the cults that emerge in the aftermath of the Departure, such as the Guilty Remnant), to something as simple as faith (trust/confidence) in other people in your life (e.g. family, friends,…

"Punishment for subverting the Guilty Remnant is sex with Liv Tyler? I don't think they understand how torture works."

*Vomits uncontrollably*

Better to let that one die, the Golden Compass movie was just plain awful. If someone was able to pull off the "Dark Materials" trilogy as a television series I'd watch the hell out of it, though.

At the very least the tour guides' bouffant-style hairdos and the old-fashioned clothing worn by both them and the kids seemed to point in that retro-futuristic direction. I agree that Wells stood out like a sore thumb, however; his much more conventional, modern look definitely felt out of place.

It's Hylia difficult to come up with a pun that incorporates the word 'Naryu' (and Hylia, for that matter).

This episode was a mess. The flashbacks added absolutely nothing to the bigger picture that wasn't already spelled out in the "present" timeline. There was absolutely no reason why they couldn't have told the story chronologically. It didn't help that it ended on such an anticlimactic note (after such a bloated…

Use of black and white film + melancholy piano music + flashbacks = art(!)
—the director of this episode

Or, better yet, the apparition (whose name rhymes with Sven Larson) could helpfully point out the gunman's intended target.

For some reason I got this confused with Pullman's "Dark Materials" novels (if this trailer's any indication, that's an extremely unflattering comparison).

I completely agree, TWD would work much better as a series of short vignettes (with each spanning one or two episodes, tops) told from a variety of different perspectives from around the globe spread out across TWD's timeline. By introducing complete unknowns into the equation, the viewer can no longer rest…

I fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.

It's truly a testament to how bad the episode was when the ridiculous fight in the woods between Jenny and Joe Corbin's assailant goes completely unmentioned. Why the heck did the nameless goon threaten Joe with a crudely fashioned wooden spear? Earlier we see him driving around in a muscle car (inexplicably knocking…

"At least Kelley doesn't have to worry about her buried idol. Although
I'm still curious if she would have lost it or if production would have
moved it with her stuff."

Abi never fails to remind everyone that she's an extremely loyal, compassionate person. The saddest/scariest part is she believes it.

Alec's slack-jawed look was absolutely priceless.

It looked like an ocelot to me. I'm not sure if they're native to that region, though.