Hence the studio-mandated production schedule hypothesis. He didn't really have an idea, but the studio sure as shit had a release date.

That's what I always thought, that it was naturally two separate movies. Hell, the titles are RIGHT THERE ("The Dark Knight Falls", "The Dark Knight Rises"). Drop the 7 year time jump necessitating painful exposition dumps and the whole, "Oops, Bruce Wayne built a goddamn nuclear bomb and just stuck it in the…

I don't know what the hell happened with Dark Knight Rises. My best guess is a studio-mandated production schedule that didn't allow for a second draft on the script. Because holy shit, that movie is a mess, both thematically and in terms of a nonsensical plot that handwaves a staggering amount of bullshit to get to…

So, I tracked down PKW (psst, guys, it's on the Tube) and watching again it's interesting to think about all the skipped and truncated episodes. Just for shits and giggles and because I desperately love this show, I'm going to write a play-by-play as I watch it. Along the way, I'm going to speculate on the episodes…

Agreed. Casino Royale was an excellent application of things that had already been done in other films. I'm sick to death of the term "gritty reboot" just because it's been beaten to death, but you're right that Casino Royale shares a lot of DNA with both Bourne and Batman Begins. You've got a down-to-earth version of…

I just find it amazing that "Eat Me" and the fallout from that was, in all probability, a money-saving move (since with the Moya/Talyn split, only have the cast aside from the Crichtons were in any given episode for most of the season). To come up with something that bizarre and brilliant out pinching pennies is…

His was one of those cameos that vaguely annoyed me, only because it largely precludes him getting a better role in the MCU later.

I can't express how much I love the twist at the end of "Twice Shy". They spent the whole season up to this point playing the Aeryn/John breakup straight, inventing conflict out of whole cloth the way other, less inventive shows do (ESPECIALLY genre shows, with the overabundance of "we can't be together because of…

I'm not sure exactly what they could've realistically cut, though. It was more a matter of trying to wrap up dangling threads and storylines left over for the characters and trying to get everyone to some sort of end point.

There was more to Hey's departure than the baldness. She was having a terrible reaction to the makeup and it was starting to seriously affect her health.

The thing about Farscape in particular is that, opposed to the various flavors of "future humanity" sci-fi, the aliens and technology are all SO foreign that complaining about incorrect science just comes off as pedantic.
Seriously, though, there isn't a sci-fi series made that is even close to the volume of shit and…

I know the Nebari were supposed to be the big bads for a season, but I always figured the "wormhole weapon" finale they did in Peacekeeper Wars was always destined to be THE finale. It's not as if they couldn't knock around for two seasons before the Scarran/Peacekeeper war finally comes to a head so big and nasty…

It was very much a rock/hard place decision, set against the whole "interstellar armageddon war" that would kill millions.
When he makes the call, he asks everybody whether or not he should do it. Every one of them says yes. That's what makes it so powerful. He KNOWS he's about to kill tens of thousands, many of them…

I always figured, in grand Farscape fashion, they tried to come up with the worst possible character to add to the crew who could still fill the "knows stuff/space medic" role left by Zhaan. Who would absolutely HATE being aboard Moya with this crew? In this case, a brilliant but terminally spoiled princess.

Well, the funding for Farscape was always screwy. Money was coming from a half dozen different sources, some Canadian, some Australian, plus the Sci Fi channel. In some ways, that was a very good thing. If Farscape would've had a more traditional funding source, we probably wouldn't have gotten the gloriously weird…

I'm pretty sure it's stated directly in The Peacekeeper Wars, they flat out say that the Eidelons scooped up a bunch of humans a few thousand years ago to turn them into Sebaceans.

It's nothing spectacular, but it's a fun movie with some great set-pieces, and Pitt and Jolie are both pretty great in it.

Really? I mean, it starts okay, but then it becomes a CGI suck-fest, resolved with one of the dumbest "uhh, what?" moments in the history of film. "I have the high ground!" So what? When has "having the high ground" ever been established as a thing with lightsaber duels? There have been five movies, every one of which…

300 gave us Zack Snyder-Action Director, which has (unfortunately) been HUGELY influential.

I love "The Man From UNCLE". It's such a fun, stylish movie, whenever I run across it on cable I can't help but watch to the end. Henry Cavill shows all the charm and wit that Snyder strips away. I also love how everyone is intentionally cast as a different nationality from their own. American as Russian, British as…