Every single mystery that you said you never had resolved _was_ resolved in the final season with the possible exception of the poem that I don't remember ever hearing about before. I'm not saying that mysteries were presented and resolved in short order, which is exactly what the problem with Flash Forward was. …

Flash Forward tried to be Lost, but it didn't have enough in the way of mysteries. Lost threw out a crapton of mysteries early on, which allowed them to keep throwing us bones to keep us happy, while simultaneously stringing us along for the long haul. Flash Forward was very stingy with the mysteries, which meant…

Utah Johnny Montana would like to have a word with the execs who put Brisco County in the Death Slot.

"We're going to make a feature film about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Except they won't be mutants, they'll be aliens. And they won't be turtles, they'll still be aliens. And they won't be teenagers, they'll be of indeterminate age. And they won't be ninja, they'll own a burger join. And there will be five…

My five favorite swordfights of all time, in no particular order, are:

One of the important things to remember about the Princess Bride swordfight is that the only part of that entire scene that required stuntfighters was the bit where they do the gymnastics flips off that oddly placed bar. Everything else is Elwes vs. Patinkin.

So what you're saying is that this Batman is either a wussier version of Red Rain Bats, who went toe-to-toe with the top fang and put them down, or a smarter version, since RRB eventually ended up becoming what he'd been fighting and had to be put down in turn.

My understanding is that The Hobbit was republished to make it work as a prequel to LotR, not that LotR was written as a direct sequel.

I actually clicked on the link to smack down the Pern series if it was on the list. It clearly was not intended to be a trilogy, by any measure that I can see. She wrote the first two books of the main series, then started the Harper Hall trilogy, and then wrote The White Dragon which very clearly sets the stage for…

The AP Stylebook was put together for the AP, with their specific purposes in mind. Since io9 is not part of the AP, nor does it work for the AP, it's up to them whether or not they use someone else's writing guide. That said, keep in mind that this stylebook was tailored toward print media, not the internet. A lot…

The HHG trilogy should be disqualified from this list on the basis that it is still, technically, a trilogy.

If every other species is peaceful, they won't be policing us. They'll either be banding up together to put us down hard, or they'll let us walk all over them. You're unlikely to have either the inclination or ability to enforce peace if you're not prepared to go to war.

Build a terra-sphere that's slightly smaller than the planetary atmosphere. Boom. Ground. Go terra-form it.

I was thinking more along the lines of "Yeah, because we've done such a bangup job of it with just us."

Possibly. Probably, since I don't recall her being in any of the other Brosnan Bond films. But if she was, it was probably a minor role and not performed badly enough to make much of an impression. Berry sucked donkey balls as Jinx. And she got the most screentime after Bond, since they really were talking about…

You know, you kinda sound like a Tea Partier who just found out that her favorite character came out of the closet. "Oh noes! I can't like it because it might be contagious!"

So the fact that one of the core conflicts between the Humans and Cylons is the whole Pantheism/Monotheism thing, the fact that Baltar's visions of Caprica Six were feeding him vital information that he had no reasonable expectation of knowing, and the fact that a religious text provided the President with vital clues…

Yeah, I saw Die Another Day, aka The Movie That Almost Killed The Bond Franchise. Remember when they were planning to make a spinoff series starring Jinx? Yeah, they're not doing a spinoff series for the invisible car, either.

Your skills at reading comprehension astound me.

I actually found the first two seasons to be fairly tedious and without any sense of direction. The New Caprica bit felt like they threw it in because even the writers got sick of same-old-same-old, and only once they finally got past all of that did it really start to feel like true long-form storytelling.