The most magical thing on Star Trek is the Universal Translator. The next closest is the replicator. It's always a little disconcerting when people who think they are being realistic about SF cite warp drive and holodecks instead. Trek's talking computers are so wonderfully inconsistent maybe they count as magical…

Found The Lost Room in a 3 for $5 sale, and started watching it last night. Very vivid character part.

Don't know where Cameron plans to go with the follow-ups. Personally I hope for things like the search for the control room that directs the movements of the mobile planet Pandora. And the heroic defeat of the imperialist military, not just the company security guards. And a big satisfying conclusion when the noble…

Not even Sherlock is going to give the complicated version of morality to a weakly socialized kid like Mason, I think.

You should realize the reviews of How to Get Away with Murder do not support you at all. Plot logic, a recognizable social setting and human characterization have long fled screaming from that show yet the AVClub reviews have one C- for all the ludicrous hours it's perpetrated on air. The lower grades are also…

Well, I don't know why Steph isn't familiar with all this. Instead, she associates his perceived lack of interest in her with too much interest in the boys. I don't think the show is being very plausible here, though, and it seems to have come out of the blue. For one thing, she wouldn't be so seemingly unaware of the…

Not having a clue here why Naomi is hooked up with Amos in the first place, or what she wants, and how Amos figures into it, and thus it will ever actually matter if Holden wants her to leash Amos. But yeah, Holden staying pissed is much superior to BSG.

Busy, busy, busy. Maybe too busy.

My experience is that the overwhelming majority of critics have no concern at all with plots or plausibility, so long as they think people will invest in a character and there are sensational scenes with really cool dialogue. And they only bring it up when they dislike a show. So I'm not really convinced the review is…

Possibly, except his successful career (insofar as it truly is,) would be better served by not playing blind defender for the entire group of boys. He knows that a bunch of boys were standing around humiliating an incapacitated student at a team party where alcohol was served. I'm not sure how wanting to ignore these…

Based on Steph's complaints.

I think the show may be trying to misdirect with Steph's complaints about Dan's lack of interest in her and excessive interest in the boys. I don't think it's a very plausible notion on her part.

Steph Sullivan was directly addressing her concerns about Dan not being very sexually interested in her any more. And she complained about the interest he wasted on the boys. So, yeah, I think the show was intimating it. But when I said it seemed to come out of the blue, I meant that this doesn't seem very plausible…

But I agree with the assistant coach that it was leaping out in front that risked the job. So it still seems really strange.

It's interesting that Michael was immediately desperate to find out if Kevin did do something to the boy. Seems to me that he also worries about Kevin being gay. If two parents are uneasy about this, chances are they know more than we do, despite Kevin manhandling every female in reach. Denial and aggression is not a…

The old BattleStar Galactica BS about how it's really drama when supposed allies point guns at each other, then don't shoot and still remain allies instead of becoming enemies for life, is even lamer now than it was then. So the supposed big dramatic choice of the episode was kind of not. For what it's worth, I think…

I'm pretty sure that Rickman really elevated Dark Harbor even more.

No I do not believe "friend" is a synonym for "accomplice," nor do I believe thieves' honor is honor at all, much less the highest form of honor. But it seems to me that this kind of perverse thinking underlies this whole business about the supposed Nice Guy problem. Since the consensus is that Winn is a Nice Guy as…

She knows he doesn't date, or try to date, or try to meet other women.

If he's not saying anything, then she's not rejecting him. The discussion is just making me think the whole notion of a Nice Guy trope is too confused to be usable, except as a buzz word for an annoyingly pathetic character making moves on a woman out of his league.