"I'd like to buy Silent Hills, please"
"Okay." -puts pile of PS1 Silent Hill games on counter- "How many?"

Until the man turns out to be a Cylon OH SHIT SPOILERS.

Season 4 apologist as I am (sort of), the Final Five was such a stupid idea. Not only do the characters revealed make no sense, what being a Cylon is is totally nerfed. Them being Cylons is -completely- incidental to their experiences and personalities.

Or with a lawnmower, Braindead-style.

I seem to give Martin more credit than most people, but I think the point about how this was originally envisioned as two linked trilogies is a really important one.

That's true, though that still has a chance to pay off if SPOILERS his (I'm assuming) inevitable resurrection impacts his character development.

It's annoying that it seems like the "anyone can die" hype is getting to him. SPOILERS? Ned's death and the Red Wedding are narrative strokes of genius, but the character deaths are so infamous now I'm worried he's just gonna go for shock value to feed in to expectations. If that even makes sense.

Opening the season with a bunch of single-character story lines would have been more interesting than what they went with, I think. I don't know if it would have worked contractually, and maybe it would have gone on too long, but having them reunite organically, giving time to flesh out the characters' conflicts,…

I'd say that season 1 is more consistent than 4; 4 is more ambitious, but it takes a long time and a lot of meandering for them to realize what the right arc is.

What do you hear, Starbuck?

I feel like New Caprica itself is an incredible high, but immediately after it suddenly becomes clear how much it's screwed over future story lines.

I don't know if anyone's interested, but I found these pretty nifty interviews with RDM and David Eick about the economic and political conditions in the fleet: http://www.concurringopinio…

I'm an atheist, but I actually thought the religious overtones were one of the more interesting aspects of the series the first time through. The interplay between the Cylons' monotheism and the colonists' polytheism, the apparent miracles - it's all stuff you don't see in this genre, and I thought they were building…

I got fake-spoiled for that early on, and everything she did seemed hugely suspicious to me, so when she SPOILER? actually killed herself I felt really bad in retrospect.

This is gonna be awesome. Battlestar Galactica has one of the best first seasons ever.

They should issue DVDs with the themes swapped, so that way when people get to the Mirror Universe eps and hear the shitty pop song, they know something's wrong.

It really is a completely useless development, isn't it? It's used as a big episode-ending cliffhanger, like, "shit's getting REAL now!", and then the next episode is, what, A Prefect Murder?

Recently I broke out Earthbound for the first time in years, and I was reminded just how happy that game makes me.

Nostalgia Chick is the best. She's so great at balancing really smart film criticism with cynical humor and a huge heart.

"..dragons are so hot right now."