I'd take Charlotte over Emily any day. Emily Bronte's stuff is very atmospheric and gothic, but for me much less coherent in the narrative. Charlotte Bronte gives you the same gothic moodiness with this intensely observant, willful narrators who give the material a lot more shape. I find both Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe…

Whaaaat, I love Frenchman's Creek, and nobody else I know ever seems to have heard of it. Or of Daphne du Maurier herself.

That episode is so good, and has so much Chief in it, that it's one of my favorites, too. Every time I rewatch episodes of BSG, I'm reminded that how bold it was with the kinds of stories it told.

I just re-watched this two-parter in anticipation of the recap, and actually, "Act of Contrition" holds up a bit better for me. I think it's the opening with the pilots that does it—I don't mind not really knowing who these people are, because we get another peek into the culture of Galactica, and the celebration is…

So happy about these reviews! I watched the show from Season 2 to the bitter end.

I don't know about in a documentary, but a recent study from just the past year indicated that there were camps EVERYWHERE in German-occupied territory. Not all of them large-scale death camps—most were small labor camps with just a small number of inmates—but there was almost no way ordinary Germans were really…

This times a million. They had control of the helicarriers, why not move them and THEN have them target each other and blow each other up?

Yeah, the Middle English thing is absurd. The Book of Common Prayer predates the Roanoke colonists by 40 years, and it is written in what is recognizable Early Modern English (despite eccentric spellings). Remember that the early colonists from England were not a bunch of broke, uneducated peasants from the…

I always watched this show with my mom and sisters, but Richard and Emily actually got my dad to sit down and occasionally watch it with us. He loves Edward Herrmann as an actor, but Emily ended up being his favorite character. Mostly because she can be so brilliantly, hilariously mean, while also being a decent…