One of the things that killed the CW App for me was there was no option of “here is money, please never another commercial”. Especially since commercial breaks were always 3-4 minutes per break, 5 breaks in an hour-long show, and the same 4 or 5 ads each time.  

Right?  How many would-be artists are discouraged by their parents to Not Go Into Art because there’s no money in it?  Having parents who are not only artists but actively passing on that knowledge is certainly going to help someone be the best artist they’d be capable of being.

Yeah, there’s a difference between “relevant” and “remained decent enough to not fuck up their legacy”.

“Latin America”, more or less, is everything in the American continents and associated islands, except for the US and Canada.

Also with Spidey-- while there are some legit issues with the JMS run, one thing he was doing a great job of was advancing Peter in his life.  Aunt May knew he was Spider-Man.  He and MJ and Aunt May were all living in Avengers Tower.  He still had problems but he was continuing to mature and grow, and it was great…

Those aren’t so much time jumps as they are different plot-lines that are shown as if they are concurrent are actually years apart.

I’m firmly of the opinion that Season 6 feels like a mess when the nature of the “flash-other” is a mystery, but when you know what they are, you see what the season is really doing: all its emotional payoff is there.  I don’t know if it would have worked to have revealed what they are earlier, but it’s something that…

Though sometimes “planning part of the ceremony based on who we ‘know’ who’s going to win” gets you that Oscar ceremony where they built the whole thing around a final moment of Chadwick Boseman winning Best Actor posthumously and whoops it went to Anthony Hopkins.

That’s because at least at the Globes, his jokes were punching up, if nothing else.

I mean, they’re partly there in support of the Best Comedy/Musical nominee Air, which Ben directed and they’re both in.  It’s not like they just got thrown together last night for no reason.

Miller, specifically, was polarized by 9/11 and it sent him down the hard right path. I used to watch him on HBO pretty regularly, and that moment of shift is extremely clear.  

I watched X-Files OBSESSIVELY for the first five seasons, and I could not tell you a damn thing today about the “arc” plot stuff.  But those stand-alones you listed?  They stayed with me.

That said, give me an ambitious failure over a forgettable mediocrity.

“There was a tree in one shot where the knot in the tree looked sort of like a devil face, so it MUST mean the big bad is Mephisto!”

I’m honestly shocked that the BSG one seems to get more of a pass when it was orders of magnitude more disappointing.

I mean, you’re absolutely right about that. Definitely part of the problem with the Timeless Child concept is that it gives an origin story to a thing that didn’t need an origin story, and in doing so adds unnecessary complication to the Time Lords themselves, and aspects of the canon like River. But I do think it…

Yes, I really didn’t like that aspect of the “Timeless Child”. Plus it transforms The Doctor from being the Time Lord who made a choice to be something more, something better; to textually, biologically unique, something different from the other Time Lords, and the Time Lords stole that difference from The Doctor. It…

Absolutely right on all points.

Oh, absolutely true. I was just surprised at how anemic it actually was.

Someone in another comment suggested that “people want to see a horror movie in a theater on Halloween weekend” was probably something of a factor, and there is merit to that concept. And it was the only significant horror movie that opened that weekend.