Sorry, you were saying something about straw men?

I just did the math by ordering the DVD. Even with shipping, I'm saving $15 by ordering it from the American site (.com instead of .ca). I imagine the discrepancy between the Blu-Rays is even bigger.

That is definitely frustrating.

Because you're stealing, and there's no way for anyone to know that you wouldn't have paid money to see it in some form if it weren't possible to steal it. Cable companies wildly exaggerate the profit lost to piracy, but that cuts both ways—to listen to people who defend piracy, no one has ever downloaded a movie, TV…

@avclub-0f2aab038be93ff407d92af691001e73:disqus , that's an absolutely brilliant parody of the kind of rationalization that I'm talking about. Bravo.

What really pisses me off isn't pirating per se so much as the people who get really defensive about it and try to pretend there's nothing wrong, and indeed it's their moral DUTY to pirate because the greedy companies blah blah blah. Dude, just admit you want to see stuff for free, and that you're doing something…

Don't know what it's like in the US, but in Canada it streams legally from the Comedy Network's site. That's generally the case with non-premium content up here, you can usually stream it from the official site.

Out of curiosity, how does that work, exactly? Do you suddenly get an email telling you you're going to be sued? I've never heard of this happening to anyone I know, possibly because I'm in Canada and I think the laws are a bit laxer, but it sounds like there are people who are getting (ineffectual?) letters from the…

Exactly. And at the end of the day, THIS is the best argument against piracy: if you keep stealing all your favourite shit, you're making it hard for it to turn a profit, and thus less likely that you'll get more of it.

Wait, what? You start out by seeming like you're guilt-tripping the people who download even if they buy the show on DVD later, then the second half of your post makes it sound like you're absolving pirates entirely and blaming the media companies.

It's been ages since I've seen it, but isn't everything that happens to Fiennes' character afterward—including becoming a bed-ridden heroin addict—supposed to be punishment for what he did?

Maybe it's because I'm in love with a woman who has extremely different taste in stuff than myself, but I've never understood people who had to re-evaluate relationships based on liking or not liking movie X. I realize we're all movie nerds here, but come ON. No one on the face of the planet is going to share your…

In a way, it is.

Yes, and I can't help thinking that Jerry's determination to "throw the set" to keep Bania from riding his coattails was the Seinfeld writers suggesting they were fed up with the many, many crappy shows that got good ratings by following Seinfeld at 9:30, and that the outright awfulness of this season was done on…

It's been ages since I saw the episode, but was it literally "we can't use transport beams or we die" or was it simply that going through the transporter would have revealed the symbiont's existence, which is something the Trill wanted to keep hidden?

I always liked that DS9 further explored a bunch of ideas that were raised on TNG, and I wish that they had literally made Dax into the same Trill who had an affair with Beverley.

That episode never stopped being kind of stunning. The fact that staid, placid TNG tipped over into full-on gore horror (on prime time TV in 1988, no less) makes it powerfully unnerving in a way that it wouldn't be on something like, say, Fringe.

I'm sure that Vash told Picard she was back offscreen. I don't think it's such an important thing that it needed to be dealt with, but I admit that it was probably left out partly because they were expecting to do another Vash episode on TNG and deal with it then, but they never did.

I was really into Trek at the time, but as I moved into my teenage years I was starting to feel some serious dissatisfaction with how sloppy the writing could be. In particular the incredibly half-assed continuity tended to bother me. So I was thrilled that "Q-Less" was tying up loose ends (if I'm not mistaken, this…

We kind of do get it with the ending sequence. As with Taxi Driver, there's a pretty strong indication that whole finale is in his head.