It didn't broadcast a coherent message. It broadcast an overwhelming montage of insane, bizarre, unearthly images and sounds, dreamed up by a host of science fiction writers (including the author of the BLACK FREIGHTER story we read over that kid's shoulder), painters, musicians, etc., all assembled over the course…

No, having the mass murders be painted as the work of America's all-powerful superhuman weapon is NOT an elegant, logical way to get Russia to make peace with America. In fact, it's a totally fucking ILLOGICAL idea to have, because the first reaction the world will have is to be to nuke America until it glows,…

I have the script this article is talking about and it is TERRIBLE. Absofuckinglutely TERRIBLE. It even has the characters teaming up as a superhero team called "the Watchmen" in the beginning, Jesus Christ.

The Bearded Men of Space Station 11.

The issue there, though, is that Happy Marty's existence only came into being because of the sudden materialization of Miserable Marty - someone who should not exist, who has memories of a future which will never occur. From the objective POV of the universe, Miserable Marty in this timeline literally comes into…

BTTF shows three timelines:
Timeline 1: Marty's parents met and had a miserable life together. Marty's life sucks. Marty helps Doc Brown's experiment in 1985 and dematerializes. This timeline is then overwritten by:
Timeline 2: For about a week in 1955, a kid with memories of an alternate future materialized out of…

There are some problems in that it creates a timeline where Marty's presence in 1955 changes things and threatens his own existence, and yet certain developments (Goldie Wilson entering politics, Chuck Berry's music, perhaps the inspiration for the skateboard) seemingly would not have happened WITHOUT Marty's…

I think VOYAGE HOME is a fun movie, but I honestly never understood how humpback whales, even intelligent ones, could build a warp-capable spaceship, or anything, actually.

He was, before Brian Michael Bendis decided he wanted to BE Luke Cage, and inexplicably turned him into a serious powerhouse of a hero to whom Captain America and Iron Man began deferring, as if his opinion mattered, and who even got to lead the Avengers for some damn reason.

Seriously.  Not only does he/she have terrible opinions on LOST, he's in favor of the fucking Tea Party.  Christ almighty.

I understood it.  I hated it.  They choked.

Also, these weren't things slapped in viewers' faces for years as hugely important mysteries.  Gus had toys in his house?

uh…okay, but that's kinda low-hanging fruit.  It's nice they had a callback to that, but they completely choked on addressing the major questions about the Island.

In order:

That's fine, but it wasn't an either-or thing.  They could have balanced good character work AND explanations.  But they decided to not even try explaining things.

ugh.  Shippers.

More importantly, HOW did that do that?  That's a thing now, shared hallucinatory limbo creation?  They must have had countless story conferences to make sure everybody's new back stories could mesh together.  Not to mention assigning attribute points and choosing alignments.

It's just off-putting when the movie claims to disdain the needless destruction of war but the entire narrative is geared around delivering mega-awesome sequences of glorious devastation.  Just feels in extremely poor taste, and morally bankrupt and cynical to boot.

I think Weller has already directed six or seven episodes of the show so he had an advantage jumping in front of the camera, I think.  (Also he's just a great actor.)

Hold on, Sebastian Roche was pretty great, I thought.  After seeing him in that I was hoping he'd be cast as Sinestro in the eventual GREEN LANTERN movie.