Lowenstein…Lowenstein.

Conceptually this is awesome, but…why would a non-Asgardian, non-Viking (probably Judeo-Christian) human dude end up in Valhalla? I mean, is it the warrior's afterlife for ALL warriors, their species and religion notwithstanding? Is it full of Skrulls and Hittite soldiers too? It kind of messes with Marvel's already…

Well put. I mock my dad for watching old-people TV, but when it's on at his place I shush him if he interrupts the show.

"I Have No Mouth and I Must Screamo"

I've probably only read six or seven words of your post above and bits and pieces of quite a few more. But I must say I don't like your comment. You can tell how little it matters to me that I read all the way down this thread, logged in, and posted just to say that, because I'm edgy that way.

You're practically a child, Thomas. I still remember the first season of The Simpsons, and my friend obsessively taping it because he just knew it wouldn't last more than a couple of seasons.

Thomas R's comment is best read in Zoidberg's voice.

Kiss? KISS?? Sacrilege!

The New Yorker still favors archaic orthography? Excellent, I'm going to send them my résumé right now!

That it took them to right before the events of this episode seemed pretty unambiguous to me, too. But then the immediate segue into Space Pilot 3000 made it seem a bit like they were trying to say it ALL starts over again.

You really just had to accept it as a conceit of the episode or else it doesn't work. They shouldn't be able to move air molecules into their lungs if the air is stuck in time, and they shouldn't be able to move themselves because they'd get cut to ribbons on immovable dust motes (and I'm not even sure if friction…

So Rachael Mark-II will be played by Kristen Stewart, is what you're saying.

What's a Christina Hendricks?

I loved it at the time, but it was pretty painful. Wolverine "My claws are stuck!" Colossus: "Da! Eez gooood!". And Nightcrawler came off kind of like a child molester. "Heh heh, zis fraulein, she is niiice."

No, it was a stupid reference to Scott Pilgrim.

You may need to steep longer. Most of the later-generation Sentinels could adapt on-the-fly to specific threats, plus IIRC Sentinel Master Molds could manufacture Sentinels that were designed to take down a specific mutant threat. So one might have a force-field vs. claws, or non-metallic construction vs. Magneto.

"This song is called 'Last Song Kills Audience' and it'll be our last song tonight…FOR YOU!!"

I never saw an episode until last night, never cared for Idol or X-Factor, and yet…I actually liked this. Myles nails it that the difference is the mentorship…there's only so much "let's mock the delusional no-talents!" you can take before you get a bad taste in your mouth, so a show where the environment is…

It's Fred Rogers vs. the Senate. They are clearly hostile to him and the whole concept of PBS…and he wins. Not only wins, but GETS THEM ON HIS SIDE. You're right, it's totally implausible. Dude was magic.

As someone who was fairly lukewarm on the HP books, I found Rowling an excellent author to watch the development of. The first HP book was the work of a clear amateur with some interesting but half-considered ideas (I'm pretty sure a later Rowling would not have made Quidditch make so little sense).