And, technically, Buffy Season 1. She was resurrected twice. Busy girl!

"…Opinion ought, in every instance, to determine its verdict [on offensive speech] by the circumstances of the individual case; condemning every one, on whichever side of the argument he places himself, in whose mode of advocacy either want of candour, or malignity, bigotry or intolerance of feeling manifest…

Thrones should take the ten seasons and donate three of them to Carnivale.

Okay, but I think it is very strange to interpret the word "reboot" to refer to oral storytelling. Certainly strange in the context of talking about a blockbuster film series.

People can disagree on this, obviously, as it's a matter of taste. But I don't think it is reasonable to make an analogy between a big-budget trademarked blockbuster film series and an open-sourced oral-traditional storytelling.

I guess they could just say that the Ripley/Hicks/Newt who crashed on the prison planet were all clones sent by the corporation, and that the trio we love were actually saved at some point in between Aliens and Alien 3. As a plot point, that would allow them to anticipate all the cloning bullshit in Resurrection…

Everything's a dream! Descartes was right all along! That bag of shit.

I like reading these threads because there's clearly a whole lot of different reasons why people watch Dr. Who.

I was tipped off by the auspicious shot of Camus's "The Stranger" in one of the first episodes. When seen in this context, the overabundance of Western religious allegories makes total sense.

"…like the Guilty Remnant, maybe we’re not supposed to feel anything. But I put the responsibility for that ambiguity on the show. And fine, ifThe Leftovers wants to play with ambiguity, it should. But that doesn’t make for very satisfying viewing in the long-term."

I really hope somebody gets Steven Moffat some ritalin for next Christmas.

The purpose of the "Road So Far" segment on this week's show appears to have been to remind the viewer that this show occasionally does off-beat slapstick comedy.

I agree. You know that the commentariat is in a bad way when it considers taking people seriously an "attack".

Although I found this last week's episode of Harmontown entertaining, I disagree that it involved "a wide-ranging and well-reasoned discussion". At the very least, I don't agree that Mayor Harmon's contributions were well-reasoned.

I'm viscerally annoyed at the empty bottle of Canadian Club which crashes against a breaker. It tells me some Canuck bootlegger clearly sucks at his job.

…fuck, you're "The Killing'!

I don't. The movie's ending depicted heaven as almost as pointlessly hedonistic as life in Hollywood. You can't send that kind of subversive message while keeping to Abrahamic doctrine.

Comic castle was not nearly comic enough. D+.

I think I must be the anti-you. Rings and Journey were good, this episode was eye-bleedingly awful.

I liked that the Doctor's key to unlock Basic Mode had "Smiths" written on it.