Ohhh, that makes sense. I've also only done local multiplayer once, and while that was generally okay (I can't remember if the 3D was on or not for me), I'd imagine it incurring rather severe dips with multiple monsters too. Here's hoping they have the online for 4U solid on that front by the time the game releases in…

Oh, huh. I actually never noticed dropped frame rate with 3D on MH3U, whereas with Pokemon X/Y the drop is instantly jarring, hideous, and sort of inexplicable. I'll have to test this out tonight; I'd only been expressly using 3D for underwater battles (where it helped a lot), but I've tended to leave it on after…

New students are intuitive! They are energetic! They seem on board with major premises of my class! It's Friday! It's GIF party! Let's do this!

Or, really, any Lars Von Trier film—he's made a career of making movies that are thick-stacked acts of misery. I have never heard people speak about hating directors like friends and colleagues speak of hating Von Trier, and so part of me feels like while his work is consistently baffling, crass, or exploitative, he…

Oh, make no mistake—an Ultimate Twinkie exists, and he is terrifying.

Wow, you have endurance. I stopped after the arch-cynicism of "So he had to go back and write the first script draft on spec, and also created an 'accompanying IP' in the form of a graphic novel, so the studio had cool images to look at."

Oh, you're right—sorry about that. Clearly this isn't a fandom or series to which I have any kind of vested interest. In that case, yes, there's probably a good deal of "anti-Moffat bias" out there, although I will say that I'm continually surprised by how much people still jones for the series. In that vein, I'm not…

Oh, good point. In that case it totally qualifies too, although I can understand why "Hush" is probably better received (and so made the list).

I'm pretty sure the Angels have been shown by now to have played a fairly extended part in the Smith-onward arc, even if their involvement with The Silence is kind of fuzzy (they're basically henchmen or something?). The definition here places the emphasis on character novelty, rather than the episode's overall…

Gods, that episode. As someone who a) resisted liking musicals until recently b) resisted liking Buffy until well after it was off the air, "Once More With Feeling"—in which Buffy and friends fight a demon who turns all of Sunnydale into showtunes-compulsives—is like the nicest case of being proven wrong. The whole…

Man, I re-watched that whole series this summer and the big takeaway was that The X-Files was the peak of postmodernism in pop culture being fun and smart, instead of obvious and smug (I won't name names of series that fall into the latter).

A GIF Party? Well, I'll dress to the nines!

As a pacifist, I disagree with his methods. But really, sometimes the man has a damn good point. The sad thing is that when he finally got sovereign control of Genosha, he actually did a pretty bang-up job making a wackily futurist, posthumanist society, and managed to accomplish a lot of the stuff Xavier only…

I mean, the problem for me isn't that no one takes the medical professionals seriously—as though profession automatically commanded respect, implied a knowing subject, etc.—it's that the people who don't take them seriously are also medical professionals who should know better, and then the main group of decision…

A thousand times this.

That's really reassuring, and I totally forgot about that. BSG played while I was in college, and so I don't tend to remember my Fridays from back then very well (except as blurs of awesome).

I'm really looking forward to Helix, but that scheduling has me worried out of the gate. Is the Friday at 10pm Syfy's usual option for big premieres and series they plan to back, or is it—as with network shows—the we're-not-giving-you-a-chance kill slot? Does this even matter any more in the age of digital…

... I mean, she also got snarled at and insulted at her wedding to the guy, so clearly she's willing to put up with a lot.

This was easily the most enjoyable episode all season, which is saying something considering it also hit a lot of the notes in DW that usually make me disconnect. The dialogue in the first half was easily some of the snappiest, most convincingly conveyed, in part because it didn't rely on gimmicks of "knowing…