Yes, I agree. And I see that much of this episode is really more about propaganda and fascism (and less about the news aspect.) And really, I was thinking more of the "news" episode from season 2, where everything was so on the (Fox) nose as to be crazily nauseating. I agree with Masthead that the whole thing goes…

I will say that I began seeing "Faux News" t-shirts (my older brother was wearing them, and folks he worked with) way before 9/11…mid to late 90's. Rewatching these episodes, I could have sworn that Fox News was on PRIOR to them, so knowing that it started afterwards makes JMS look like a prescient genius or an…

Downey signed on for two sequels? Well, for that much money it's no wonder, man!

The Trade-Ins is a stone cold fucking classic.

Yeah, they took great pains to indicate that he had plead guilty and bragged about it and so on and so forth. But even with that, I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't have fought against the sentence (and that would take legal wrangling.) I doubt there are very many juries anywhere (anytime) that would give the…

Ugh. This week was surprisingly painful…almost exclusively because of "Gethsemane." The whole episode was just so ham-handed, as Rowan pointed out. I could see the seams in almost every scene, and could almost hear JMS clacking along on his keyboard.

Refa Madness!!!!

Yeah, and I agree. I watched this last night and I still have a bad taste in my mouth. Not good on almost any level.

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!!

Yeah, FUUUCCCCKKKK this shit.

Yes! Finally a Beavercreek reference at the AVClub! My years of hoping have been answered. I'm writing this in my diary!

Not much to say about this stellar episode that hasn't already been said either in Rowan's review or in this comment section. Just a really great episode and probably the very first (but not the last) instance of this show firing on all cylinders. I've mentioned before that I watched this series two or three times in…

Just to make myself clear: I wasn't (and am not) saying that the romance between the two was bad (or good), simply that I found the date in this episode so jarring in that they suddenly seemed like school kids with each other, laughing and bonding so quickly. If this were Sinclair, it would make sense as some of the…

The whole date between Delenn and Sheridan was pretty jarring to me. I just never really saw the place where Sheridan suddenly finds the Minbari a charming race to hang out with, but I suppose this is just (for all intents and purposes) an abandonment of the Sheridan as Star Killer idea. As with new series and new…

Ugh. It's been probably ten years since I watched these episodes, and I read the first paragraph of this review before re-watching. As such, I was expecting much better things from "The Long Dark", but I found it really strangely inert, and with kind of laughable production values (Down Below really looked like a poor…

It was so on the nose that it, for some reason, bothered me.

I watched about 10 hours of this show a year ago (just to see myself, William Shatner, in a guest starring turn) and came away pretty unimpressed. I know it is somewhat revered in Europe, but goddammit if the show isn't fairly dated and boring.

Just read the linked article…and I'm as speechless as Rowan. Suppose I shouldn't be, since every time I watch the B5 DVDs, I think: "Who in their right mind would decide that this mixed aspect ratio fix of cropping and zooming is better than just giving us a pristine 4:3 (as originally aired) transfer?" Now I know…

Rowan: it appears that any scene with a special effect is cropped and zoomed (as you have probably noticed.) What is interesting is that any scene or shot that "borders" a scene with a special effect also has the potential to be zoomed and cropped even if the shot itself doesn't have any CGI. I noticed this a lot in…

What a fucking asshole.