When God flies down from the mountain and eats all of the children. Seriously, the 9-14 year old demographic fuels these things as much as anything. Every kid loves superheroes and it's really, really easy for parents to be like, "Eh, I guess we can take little Johnny to go see 'Iron Man,' at least it's not 'Cars…

Ryan Reynolds' career has floundered because he is Ryan Reynolds. No outside factors necessary.

I am in favor of this, as Jackman is too good an actor to be mired in such midling films. I have no issue with big name, legitimate actors in superhero action franchises, but after two movies, I just want these guys to give their talents to stuff with a little more meat on the bone.

One thing on Woo: This vote couldn't (or shouldn't) have been a huge surprise to him. Just a few days before, Tony/Sarah/Trish (and Woo himself, sort of?) were willing to throw a challenge to get rid of Cliff.

I was wondering on Cliff's edit, because for a guy who was well liked and seemed to have a lot of fun with the experience, he got very little camera time. Tonight's episode, almost the entirety of our Cliff experience was seeing him wandering around the jungle at random. My guess: Cliff Robinson, for all of his…

Random thing: I really, really dislike it when somebody's logic for a vote or a target is "____ will be awesome in individual challenges after the merge." I believe Trish used this logic at least once tonight in regards to Cliff. While it's certainly true that some players will go on individual winning streaks,…

In that pic, Woo looks like he just walked in on his parents having sex. The petrified terror of it all…

It looked incredibly uncomfortable. Sand is great until you're being dragged through it. Plus, that was probably really, really hot sand.

Really entertaining episode. Sometimes I can't tell if we're seeing smart decisions or no, but it's all entertaining. These players are just an interesting mix. One of my favorite cuts was the Beauty Gossip cut. These people had known Spencer, Kass and Tasha for approximately ten minutes before they started…

Could you imagine J'Tia trying to move that log? She would have died. Though I guess she would have been the obvious sit-out, too. Speaking of sit-outs, one really really minor thing I loved in this episode was Alexis and Morgan both wanting to compete. Usually, the person just sits out without any argument (or at…

Seth McFarlane has been staring at his phone, just waiting for that hosting call.

Eh, I'm not ashamed. I've missed better.

Oh how that book was bungled. It's not even that he had to walk Malcolm's death back. It's that he CHOSE to walk that back. The opening premise of 'The Lost World' was actually really, really interesting—dinosaur carcasses washing up on shore, rumors of animals living in the jungle, government doesn't want people…

Hammond died in the original book, too, yet showed up in movie sequel.

I only have so many eyes and livers to give the world.

Big Red We Have Prequel was unexpected and sincerely appreciated. I laughed a lot.

I'm a little weirded out about how negatively nitpicky the comments are for this review. When I was teaching, this is exactly what would happen whenever I gave students a B+ or an A- (or for that matter, a B). I would try to argue to no end that these are good grades and that I gave them to said student because I…

To answer the central question of "is it worth it," the answer appears to be "not really." The vast majority of these shows die and remain dead, and that being the case, if you spend five dollars on a sandwich or some nuts and mail them to Network, you are essentially wasting five dollars for no reason.

Springsteen's "Nebraska."

Sometimes a comment human will toss the label of "surprisingly decent" or "more enjoyable than it should be" onto a random, unheralded film and you will see the upvotes pile up. That's not going to happen here.