"It means that it makes little sense to license the property, then to hollow it out and slap the title on something entirely different."

And less offensive than calling her "some other kind of ting-tong-whatever", which is probably what he meant.

Apparently there's still going to be 4 Avatar sequels between now and 2019 or something, so I guess he's all set.

it is kind of weird that comics - which have traditionally screwed around with race, gender and every other aspect of identity whenever they damn well feel like it - seem to have this huge problem when they're adapted to screen. I get that casting someone to play a drawing is going to be harder than casting someone…

Gina continues to be the best thing on television. She's right. Not everything's about you, Bob; you're such a Leanne.

If this was not intentional, I will be sorely disappointed.

I think this was the first ATD-I song I heard that I liked, because of the talky Captain Beefheart vocals. I wasn't totally sold on Bixler's voice for a long time.

The only good thing about Blair Witch 2.

I choose to believe that the coffee machine is actually a kickass experimental modern-type musical instrument.

Eat up Worm Train Centaur.

And let's be clear: Teso dos Bichos" is EASILY the worst episode of the X-Files - not because it's the worst piece of television, but because it's boring, generic, unambitious, and utterly devoid of humour or self-awareness.

I see what you're getting at. Both seem like someone took someone's serious but terrible idea (the numerology killer, the maybe-repentant suicide bomber in a coma this is very serious) and decided to scribble all over it in crayon. I kind of want to check Mulder's trip for a Burt Reynolds cameo now.

I guess because they didn't want Miller and Scully to know whether they were saying. Not sure why this is such a sore point, tbh. I would be more interested to know what they actually said.

I'm actually kind of relieved that, in this episode and to some extent in others, it's being made clear that not all conspiracy theories are real. It gives me hope that that tirade of nonsense at the end of My Struggle is going to be illustrated as being as such.

I think it depends what you mean by Islamophobia.

"Hopefully in the finale, the only way for her and Mulder to escape some final dangerous obstacle is to put a quarter in a magic fingers box on a hotel bed."

Mulder is well-established as a bit of a perv, although that aspect of his character kind of got waysided when America got online and found out that so was everyone else.

Comics can get away with pulling that kind of crap.

"Mulder and Scully brought a search for the unknown to a case that didn't have it, instead of what actually works: Mulder and Scully bring detective work to explain the unexplainable."

Honestly, I don't care about whether Sharaz was a good person or not. In the end it doesn't really matter. But it is made pretty clear from the off that he isn't just a cipher for all Muslims - in fact it's explicitly stated by the show's most sympathetic character. I get what you mean about waiting for a twist,…