I'm going to call it based on no research whatsoever: years ending in '7' are inherently amazing years for film.  1957 might be my all-time favorite year - Sweet Smell of Success, Wild Strawberries, Seventh Seal, Paths of Glory, 12 Angry Men, Throne of Blood, Bridge on the River Kwai - and 2007 is definitely up…

Between Harold Weir and Coach Taylor, if I ever accidentally have a child, I know the kind of person I hope to be for, uh, it.

You are not imagining, my friend.  You heard everything.  She tried to cover up, but you heard it all.

If a guy shoots a guy and then dedicates the entire next issue to a monologue about why he shot the guy, possibly while shooting other, lesser guys… it's Scott Snyder.

If a guy stabs a guy from behind off panel on the last page, it was probably Geoff Johns, and you can safely stop reading the series.

Ellis is the smart, inventive one who has some issues when it comes to differentiating characters through dialogue/personality.  Millar is the one who is just the worst.

If a guy shoots another guy, it probably isn't Kathryn Immonen. If a guy puns another guy, it probably is.

I don't think it's us so much as those abortions on YouTube who do the 'Everything Wrong With' series and folks of their ilk.

I'd argue that the dialogue is (mostly) fine, but the actors are not.  After all, I have no problems whatsoever with Clark Gregg's delivery of it.

@avclub-f73c955e2c1f51451a682f5c1ce0e867:disqus - I think this is the first time I've ever seen you think Morrison would be an IMPROVEMENT like this.

Snyder's Batman is interesting.  It'll veer from embarrassingly awful (#11) to completely wonderful (#12) with no rhyme or reason.  I eventually settled on the "It's not worth the attention" side of the fence on it, largely (admittedly) due to the absurd number of crossover events and the fact that Snyder's inability…

Really? I found ARROW almost unwatchably bad outside of the (admittedly surprisingly exciting) season finale.  SHIELD at least has dialogue and solid action sequences; ARROW's basic design from the ground up is meandering and ugly.

I want to love The Movement so much. It SHOULD be good.  But it just… isn't.  It takes everything Simone does well and mixes it up with a really cool idea for a modern superhero book and spits back out something really bad.  Doesn't help that Freddie Williams is doing the worst art of his career on the book, I think.

Blink is probably a stronger episode - more ambitious, more unpredictable, more iconic - but Midnight is creepier.

Grabbed The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, Slacker, The Ice Storm, Naked, and Life Is Sweet.

I learned to stay away from IGN completely.

It's almost like you're using a false equivalence to prop up an argument in a fight you know you wish you hadn't started but are unwilling to let go by saying, "My favorite band's lyrics aren't bad - they didn't write this unrelated dance pop song!"

"Righteous" is up there among the absolute best Buffy episodes.

You should branch out.  Carefully, of course, because there are huge and vast swaths of comicdom that are both popular AND critically beloved that also happen to be pretty awful… but you should still branch out a bit.

In @Scrawler2:disqus 's defense, Angel and Cordy are definitely a better couple than Angel and Buffy.