I thought the series ending they put in was fine (although the epilogue with the far future stuff seemed like an unnecessary pin in the whole thing), but the resolution of the Shadow War was a big "wtf" in my book. Kind of a "wrote myself into a narrative corner" kind of thing.

OMG YES THAT BOTHERED ME SO MUCH.

the problem I've always had with JMS's stuff is that his "big picture" world building is fascinating, but his approach to the details is at best naive and at worst just plain bad. B5 has a really interesting premise, and it ends up being a lot of ham-handed expository speeches, high-school philosophy, and…

They've come a long way since "I Want You" and "Truly Madly Deeply."

I feel you, man.

Honestly if this were about an actual sample, this would be way more cut and dried. If he had taken a chunk of the sound recording, the label would be able to clear it (or not) with no ambiguity.

After the GOF I think things just went awry. That was the pinnacle of Big Achewood Story, with a whole in-strip mythology, and it just seemed like after that there wasn't anywhere to go. We had stories with Airwolf and lots of disturbing stuff with Nice Pete and Mexican Magical Realism that just seemed…either just…

He is (was?) selling small-batch artisanal soda syrups in Portland, because of course he is.

Oh wait he mentioned the chalkboard above. Nevermind.

On the "Krieger/replicants" front, the blackboard behind him during his first scene this ep featured some very detailed drawings of what appeared to be the musculature of a strong-jawed human head. As though, perhaps, he was building one…

I think it'd be fine if it were just on the other way round.

STOP ALL THE DOWNLOADIN'

MR BODY MASSAGE MACHINE GO!

The Mini also suffered from some really bland performances. William Hurt as Leto? It seemed like he was asleep for a good chunk of the first one. And I can't remember any of the supporting actors.

I think they saw that Buzzfeed video about "things people from the midwest say" and figured they'd just rip that off, right down to the Ranch dressing bit at the end.

I work with a guy who grew up in Chicago and has been living in central Wisconsin now for 15 years. He still can't pronounce "Shawano."

I routinely watch the Rhinelander station, since my parents retired near there.

That hasn't really been an issue since the early 80's. Even cheap DACs have oversampled to handle aliasing.

Neil Young doesn't understand Nyquist-Shannon sampling theory.

I'm surprised there was no mention of Tarkan. Turkish pop sensation, had his trademark "Simarik" covered as "Kiss Kiss" by multiple English pop stars, oddly huge in Latin America, hunky hirsute good looks…and then his English-language debut just flat-out flopped.