U2 never feels like they've finished anything in studio, they always say U2 records don't get finished, they just get released, and I think Bad is the quintessential example of a track where they've always loved it but have always said it especially wasn't ready at the time of its recording.

He can and has contributed from time to time, but yeah, you can tell that most of the time it's a prop to compel him to stick close to the rest of the band for at least SOME of the show's runtime. The Vertigo Tour rendition of "The Fly" certainly gained from having two guitar players though.

When they play the songs from Boy you see them light up and feed off of each other's energy just like they were the teenage band that wrote it again. The fact that they're the same 4 best friends that have been at it since high school and only go out on tour when they have new music they're excited to share with…

What's even more stunning is The Edge's solo acoustic
rendition of Sunday Bloody Sunday in post-war Sarajevo: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Seriously, and the performance of Bad at Live Aid probably did more to launch them into the stratosphere than anything else.

Noah was as much about critiquing those themes as it was anything else, written and directed by a staunch atheist as it was.

Did you even read his comment? It begins "I'm not a Christian". One can observe and comment on something that troubles them without being a victim of what they're talking about.

There certainly is an element of judgement by virtue of limited choice for representation in the media though, they're not the only group like this, but if you think the majority of Christians are of the Duck Dynasty/Fox New ilk then that kind of representation has worked on you. The vocal minority sadly defines many…

Yeah, there's certainly an element of judging the whole by the worst cases / worst contexts that are shown in the media going on, it's not the only demographic that suffers this, but it's definitely prevalent.

Has the bizarro universe success of American Sniper twisted people's perceptions so much that we're calling a drama that made over $100m in the US mediocre at the box office?

I know you're not arguing in favor of it, but is there though? The history of film's about terrorism at the box office says otherwise. That's not to say no one should make films about terrorism, but the kind of cynical shyster producers we're talking about here have no business doing so.

Don't throw United 93 in with that lot.

Carter was already talking to Fox about this last year according to Deadline, I'm going to go ahead and credit the success of 24: Live Another Day and the continued excitement of the two leads of the franchise over a podcast.

Their dynamic stills holds up, even in the episodes that were weak back in the day. Also, have you seen "46 year old Gillian" lately?

Hopefully he's smart enough to know that even in its best days his teleplays weren't the best and the show worked in spite of his dumb fake profound voiceovers. Meaning he'll recruit his best people to come back and write for him.

Haven't you seen the rise in prestige for "weekly TV" these days? It's not slumming it anymore, it's a whole different challenge. Not to mention when has she ever tried to distance herself from The X-Files? She participated in the last film in 2008 and has been saying she'd be involved in any continuation that…

Amazon finally watched the pilot for themselves.

I feel like a large portion of people have always lived vicariously, it's the minority that actually go out and make the world their own, that's not unique to the internet age.

The whole not-living in a pre-internet generation thing isn't really a thing for kids that grew up in the 90's, 2000's and on we're getting there yes, but the internet and its utility via high speeds and web 2.0+ applications really wasn't a rampant part of education/childhood until after that. Schools had computers,…

Then again the 90's is where the first glimmer of the higher level of quality that's possible from TV really started to shine, this show included.