True. Season 1 writer David Fury came up with a lot of the key elements of the Lost mythos that fans became obsessed with (Hurley's numbers, the smoke monster, the whispers in the jungle), and he's freely discussed how there were no definitive answers in place to any of that—and largely no mythology in place at…

To be fair he's been pretty candid about how when he writes he throws something challenging out there, almost writing himself into a corner, and then works to tie everything together by the end of a season. His interview with Sepinwall from years ago gets into that:

This quick-witted response deserves more upvotes.

Well, Canada and Australia also typically include the extra L (and American English did, too, until relatively recently, according to the OED), so American chauvinism is really the only thing keeping the L down. Stop double L discrimination!

In American English, "canceled" is indeed the preferred spelling, but in British English "cancelled" is considered standard.

I read that in Bill Hicks's voice.

I really dug Pure Heroine, so I'm looking forward to Lorde's follow-up.

I was wondering the same thing a few weeks ago—I thought maybe she'd be reintroduced in a later episode, too—but then I noticed that Sufe Bradshaw isn't in any of the promotional material that I saw for this season.

If the Big Leak that revealed the entire narrative for this coming season is to be believed—and subsequent photo leaks and the trailer released yesterday seem to confirm several details—then the endgame is shaping up to be fairly conventional. That's fine in my book, but D&D probably don't need more than thirteen…

That, too. An interesting side note, actually, is that Adam Brickley, the blogger who first got Kristol and other self-appointed "king makers" interested in Palin, is part of that weird subset of Christian Evangelicals who think that they can help bring about the Second Coming by supporting Israel—and apparently Sarah…

The scuttlebutt post-election was that he wanted to pick Lieberman (another "maverick," scare quotes intended), but McCain's campaign advisors vociferously objected, telling him that Lieberman would be deemed too liberal (read: pro-choice) and he would divide the party at the convention.

He was dating Dana, who had opened the cheese business and had asked Gary to join her in it after Selina announces that she's not going to run again in season 3, but he chooses to return to work for Selina when Selina learns that the president is going to resign and she'll become president. That's the last we see or…

Lots of great choices already. I'm going to add the opening solo to "I'm Nothing but Heart" by Low, with its epic highs and cavernous lows setting the tone for what follows. Actually, it's vaguely reminiscent of the opening solo to Lou Reed's "What's Good," itself a table setter.

I am not a prescriptive grammarian. I have a background in sociolinguistics, and one of my routine class discussions with undergrads every semester involves demystifying "proper English" (I point out that there is no English language academy; even if there were, language academies, in general, such as the Académie…

His most memorable role for me is probably the two episodes of 30 Rock in which he played the nameless engineer in charge of Cabeltown's doomed couch venture.

Not only were they insensitive in matters related to class and race; they demean the values to which I hold myself and which I offer as a member of this community.”

In the article she's quoted as saying that she texted a friend who had just broken up with her boyfriend and that she wasn't constantly texting. The impression I get is that it was the end to a conversation that she had been having with her friend before the movie. Should she have stepped out of the theater to do so?…

The necessity of reform mustn’t be allowed to become a form of blackmail serving to limit, reduce, or halt the exercise of criticism. Under no circumstances should one pay attention to those who tell one: “Don’t criticize, since you’re not capable of carrying out a reform.” That’s ministerial cabinet talk. Critique…

On the other hand, there was a British tabloid story circulating online yesterday with the headline "You'll NEVER Guess which Game of Thrones Character This Adorable Youngster Grew Up to Be," and after seeing the photographs and before reading the story that confirmed it, I thought, "That is the most Maisie…

And the crux of those hypothetical flaws seems to be that Gus Fring is coming onto the stage, because there was ever a chance—or even a good reason—for him not to do so? Would it be better if he were shoehorned in during the series finale?