I love that episode, but one of the reasons is that it pays off the entire series, so I think seeing it first would be a shame. Same with "The Rashomon Job," which pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the characters. The pilot for this show is one of the most perfect pilots I've ever seen, so I'd…

It's a wonderful play, and the music is difficult and beautiful. It's nothing like the ABC show, it's biting and harsh and funny and heart-breaking.

And Susan Sto Helit. Susan does not suffer fools gladly. Or at all.

Yeah, they weren't using the Chicago Manual of Style, either. Probably because Shakespeare wrote centuries ago, and Jesus had ghost writers even more centuries ago.

When did that happen? I mean, when it did it show up as permissible to use "they" as a singular pronoun in style books and grammar books? Because it still makes me twitch the way "alright" and "alot" do.

I like it. He seems to have had no, or at least minimal, plastic surgery, so that's just him. Compare him to some of the others in his age range who look like wax dolls now, and he looks fabulous. The thing about aging is that you can't stop it, and trying to only makes you look awful and desperate. The key is…

I think it's an inability to see past the infatuation/antagonist stage of a romance. The falling-in-love part is exciting and full of tension; the commitment part is a lot more subtle and harder to write but just as full of conflict. And then when the relationship moves into the partnership phase, you get terrific…

The Thin Man movie was based on a book by Dashiell Hammett who based the Nick and Nora relationship on his relationship with Lillian Hellman.

Wait. Batman did a secret baby story? That's one of the worst romance tropes ever; I had no idea it'd mutated into superhero stories. I heard that Arrow was doing that one, too.

Thank you. You have excellent taste. So does your husband.

Hi. I'm Jennifer Crusie and I agree, I write romance novels.

A series on power tools, how to use them, how to care for them, how to replace parts (blades, etc.). I use a drill, jigsaw, circular saw, sander, etc. but I've never formally learned how to use them. I don't know what a router does, but I hear I should have one, and there are any number of things I come up against…

It's a great satire on the Hero's Journey while simultaneously being an equally great farce. It also makes the dumb sidekick the protagonist which puts everything in a different light. It's innovative, it's funny, it's over the top, and it's fun (and very quotable).

I think it's Idiocracy.

Thief of Time is just flat-out amazing. I read it over and over again, and every time there's more there.

I keep buying copies, too. It's a book I never want to lose, so I'm making back-ups.

I took it that since Adam was the Anti-Christ and they all gathered at his command, when he said, "No," they had to go, just as the hellhound had to become a terrier with a floppy ear.

I love this thread.

I bailed before the first episode was over because I couldn't stand the female lead, even though I'd liked her in MI5. I think if you solve too many mysteries about what's real and what isn't, a lot of the air goes out of the story. One of the great things about the LoM ending was that you really didn't know if it…

I'd heard about this show, so I tried it on Hulu and was just stunned by how good it was. Then I found out that the episodes on Hulu had been cut and ordered the DVDs, and was stunned all over again because if you see them in their original uncut versions, they're just perfect storytelling with a phenomenal cast. …