Mal being the kind of man who would murder a prisoner for back talk is the other reason, I guess. But that is part and parcel of the Western mythology. It's not an accident that so many of those guys in Westerns are Confederate veterans (but so few Union vets,) espousing a small government creed (the official revised…

They didn't succeed in their nefarious plans. It's like capital punishment for planning a murder. Doesn't even meet the moral principle of an eye for an eye, much less Christian ethics.

The whole series is about a die hard band of Lost Causers, with the SF twist that River's magical powers are going to make sure the Lost Cause, like Serenity saving Mal at the barroom brawl, rises again.

Barroom brawl in the first aired episode.

Reviewers and everybody who does buzz. As near as I can tell, real people still find Brokeback Mountain affecting. But Jake Gyllenhall still hasn't lived it down.

But…Slashing Bogart and Claude Rains is the final touch that made it great!

I do despise it.

So far as writing quality goes, to be sure Farscape was better. And it was vastly more imaginative. But Firefly has the whole Neo-Confederate subtext. Never underestimate the power of reactionary politics to make some audiences horny.

The new BattleStar Galactica was an incredibly badly written series that was popular because it was a heartless, mindless 9/11 wankfest premised on the nation that "we" were being genocided by nonhuman religious fanatics (with supernatural powers,) with aircraft carriers (in space) whose crews whined endlessly about…

Hope he pulls that off. Always seemed to me the best way to deconstruct fantasies was with realism (or at a stretch the kind of SF where the science isn't fiction without indentations, punctuation, capital letters and spell check.

Monarchism is viciously reactionary. Has to make it hard to put a humane slant on all the shenanigans.

True…and, is that a good thing for the Meyerists?

You're right! A brain fart changed Fry's The Hippopotamus into a lobster.

You know, I've always seen people denying that everyone blindly believes the auteur theory. But it was Stephen Fry, not just a writer, who wrote The Lobster.

The leaves fallen on the pile of dirt show that it wasn't a fresh hole. The scene I think was over lit suggesting even more time had passed than the script said. Sometimes it seems like the director's job is to screw up the script. But most of that time was supposed to be dragging the body through the woods.

Cal raises his hands like he's praying during the birth. When he lays hands on the baby is when it seems like he's laying claim to some specialness…except that is very likely the "induction of a new soul" he was supposed to perform anyway.

That kind of abuse doesn't make a superwoman, it damages children for life. It's the same nonsense in those Ender's Game books. Which is an instructive comparison. They put that same premise on screen for that movie and it was crap.

With Trump-ery, it's hard to tell whether this is meant to be a joke.

Dragnet was a procedural crime show. CSI was a procedural crime show. The Wire was a procedural crime serial, and ditto Southland. You could argue (not strongly) The Closer and Major Crimes are procedural crime shows because of their emphasis on getting a confession and plea bargains (respectively.) You could even…

Good point. Maybe Ethan's saying now he knows what's going one with the dead bodies mysteriously appearing after he has a black out?