I think BSG set up an expectation, kind of how The Wire did, of grim and gritty being the sine qua non for the genre. I think it's a silly false expectation (I do like laughing), and since I didn't actually like SGU I don't think it's paid off, but I do think that it popularised that handling of the subject matter.

I'd definitely hold up Out of Gas as a set piece for dissection, both in terms of writing and direction, first.

Did those shows follow in the footsteps of Buffy, or did Buffy follow in Xena's?

I am never going to say it's not a brilliant episode (I have more backhanded compliments ready to go, in my pocket), but what did it *change*? Of the episodes here, it's far and away my favourite (in a I-may-watch-it-a-second-time-eventually but I-quote-it-whenever-a-loved-one-dies way), but I can't point to its…

I think we really have to give the credit to Solid Gold, though, for paving the way for the future...

He is the messiah. How dare you! No one is worthy to play him now that Laurence Olivier is dead!

How can you not like psycho Malkovich beaming emptily at his one friend, the iPhone? I mean, if that doesn't get you yo plonk down your money on the product, what could?

I'm trying to align your examples with the premise of the article ("Here are 10 single episodes of science fiction and fantasy shows that changed television forever"), and something is off, but I can't put my finger on it...

I have this bookshelf idea that involves planks of lumber and concrete bricks. Wanna hear it?

Bingo. Although I have not been able to properly set it up to control the Apple TV, and that's the easiest remote in the world to lose.

I'm trying to work out if there's an episode of Buffy that changed how people conceived of the genre, and I fear it's something where she was really upset and confused about the much-older supernatural being with which she'd fallen in love.

I read one of the Dianetics books because I found it at a relative's house. He thought it was ground-breaking, I thought it was "think happy thoughts! more! louder!" sort of useless.

I was all "Wow, how literal a naval motif is...oh. Huh."

All of the episodes mentioned here that I've seen are excellent examples of the medium. But did they all change what came after them?

I know enough neurotic, dependent, not that "together" men in relationships that I can only say that your experience is not universal. And maybe it would be informative for *whoever* to find out how the other omega men meet, fall in love with, and marry partners. Forget what this supposed alpha breed is doing, and…

It may cost a little more, but you can be accommodated.

And see my answer to you. What you're complaining about, didn't actual happen. They're poking at you baby and the bathwater, not for what you don't like. Everyone has bathwater.

And what is that hobby? Throwing out the baby with the bathwater? Because that's all people are poking at you about.

We can get you monsters, and we can get you cakes, but monster-cake....now, that's complicated.

You not having gotten a date in high school is supposed to invalidate the study? Unless I missed the bit where it said "every time", then your state and its truth are not mutually exclusive.