“No-one’s putting up literal altars for Media, for example, but she’s still one of the biggest players in the game...”

They would have paid a lot less if they had gone to Safeway or Ralph’s.

His stuff is usually weird for weird’s sake. Twin Peaks sucked so bad it has hurt TV ever since it first aired.

I hate David Lynch movies.

This seemed obvious to me. Most of these serialized tv shows tease some over arching plan are just making it up as they go along. Thats why you get things like LOST. Even if they have a plan they keep stretching it out because they got picked up for another season. This is the real problem with serialized tv. We…

There were certainly light hearted moments in SG1, but I would not consider it camp at all. What it did was what all good sci-fi should do. It would tackle serious issues like religion, politics, addiction, etc. via metaphors instead of directly through “real life” drama. Like Star Trek TOS was with the cold war,…

What campiness? What they did was take a decent sci-fi franchise and try to turn it in to a drama that takes place on a spaceship... Nobody wanted to watch that. Sci-fi fans were turned off and drama fans wouldn’t tune in it because it was a sci-fi show. If they had kept the formula from the original show, they…

No, David Lynch did.

I was thinking the same thing. Last year, this wouldn’t have been that big a deal, but now that (this is still hard to write) Trump is President, It could get people killed or even start a war. Fuck we are so screwed.

He can afford $35K for a toy plane but he can’t afford a shirt? WTF!?

If your friends think Starship Troopers is good satire, you need smarter friends.

I had always had Vonnegut. He’s one of my favorite writers. I asker her to the lecture. It was good to see him speak at least once before he died. He spoke about writing a cohesive readable story. He graphed several famous stories on a chalk board relating to how happy or sad the plot was as the story progressed.…

Well, you aren’t going to get anywhere in convincing me to watch the show by naming The walking dead (I gave up on that show when they were at the prison) or the Fast and the Furious (I gave up on that franchise after the first movie). As for getting where trans people are coming from, I have many friends who are and…

Yeah, that everything is connected thing can work, as in Dirk Gently’s, or selected works by Kurt Vonnegut, but it can also not work. I was suckered into reading a Prayer for Owen Meany about 20 years ago by a women I was was trying to date. She said if I like Vonnegut or Douglas Adams, I’d love Owen Meany... I did…

“created the modern serialized TV paradigm”... Ever heard of Twin Peaks? (another show that sucked by the way)

Next you are going to tell me that the show’s writing is as tight and cohesive as Days of our Lives... I mean really?! Babylon 5?! WTF?!

You are never going to convince me of tight writing and cohesive storytelling by comparing it to Babylon 5. That would be like trying to convince me someone is a scholar and a diplomat by comparing them to Trump.

What is JMS? Also, I think that is the problem, though I never got past the first episode, what I heard was that they were all over the place.

I couldn’t get through the first episode but most of what I heard about this show (even from fans) was that they weren’t telling a story... at least not a cohesive one anyway.

Kinda surprised it lasted as long as it did. I couldn’t even get through the first episode.