As a moment of a soul's defeat, the scene in which Lisa photoshops the portrait of herself reminds me of the episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which a tortured Picard begins to see the five lights instead of the four that are really there (a nod to Orwell).

Man of Steel: It's no reverential, embalmed treatment of folklore like Superman Returns. Instead it's a somber sci-fi thriller: a drifter haunted by his father's suicide ensuring the extinction of his eugenicist kind in order to save from genocide those who made him an outcast. If that's not the Superman you grew up…

Death Sentence by Monty Nero and Mike Dowling is one to watch.

Lovelorn Dolls, RetConStruct, Blood Ceremony, Skarlett Riot, Echosmith, Courage My Love, Benea Reach, KEN Mode

Yeah, that's a function of creators and/or execs thinking "Hey, we need some diversity in this cast. But we can't make a nonwhite guy the protagonist."

"Who does Alex Grayson love?" He loves Renfield, of course.

Lifeforce is one of my favorite vampire movies. I rewatched it a couple years ago after having last seen it in the 80s, and I was surprised at how well it held up. It combines science fiction and gothic horror in a way no other movie does.

You mean shitXer.

Back in the mid-80s punk kids were a bit embarrassed by 30-year-old punk rockers. Now there are bands that are over 30 years old.

Remember when the dad on Family Guy had a heart attack? Or Dan on Roseanne had a heart attack? Family Guy is at that point. It's running on fumes.

Great: Gravity Falls, Adventure Time, Steven Universe, Bravest Warriors. A bit kiddie? Sure. But they actually have interesting writing, not just colostomy bag eating contests and the like often used as creativity filler on 'adult' cartoons. Not to mention terrific visuals.

Not only that, Chomsky is responsible for one of the dumber aspects of evolutionary psychology: cognitive modules inspired by the language acquisition device.

Chomsky had his moment, while Lakoff is relevant.

Sure, he's a political crackpot but I give him credit for not giving any credence to 9/11 conspiracy theories unlike, say, Howard Zinn.

A few decades from now no one will remember Chomsky's political commentary but his contributions to linguistics and cognitive science will be remembered. Not to say that he's right about those, but even his critics will admit that he's a giant in the field.

This episode just makes me think that the episode 'The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers', featuring a porn-crazed Butters, is eleven years old. And South Park was already a mature series at that point, already in season 6.

Any regret I had about skipping Family Guy tonight is gone. Actually skipped the whole animation domination bloc. The Simpsons has been dead for over 10 years and the McFarlane shows are well past their prime, with American Dad being especially stale and repetitive. The only decent series is Bob's Burgers but since…

It was deliberately provocative. But at the same time, the pre-95 era seems lived on a totally different scale, when distance and time still mattered and art was bound to its media, and instant viral anything was nigh-impossible.

I too recall 'college rock'. Yeah, when Nevermind exploded I felt like I was already too old at the age of 21 to be identified with some youth movement and had already done my time with hardcore and its offshoots. But as a word association thing, when I hear "Gen X" I immediately think "grunge."

An episode last season showed that a lone nutcase was more effective in sealing off a once-open city block from zombies than Rick & co. are at fortifying a prison. Instead, they have a paper thin defense of chain link fence - destined to come down under the inertia of a large enough horde of undead - while the living…