and what would THAT do to the integrity of the timeline? for chrissake dude, are you even paying attention?! now we're gonna get audited by the Department of Temporal Investigations… just great.

But "Parallels" is about parallel universes, not alternate timelines.

in the original series, yeah - her romulan stuff is pretty damn great (and she had a horta join the Enterprise crew!) but i'd rate peter david's next generation stuff right up there with 'em… and while most of the books in the "season 8" DS9 series were, uhm, not that good, i did really enjoy the ones by s.d. perry.

yeah, i didn't dig that Enterprise scene… i always kind of hoped someone would reveal the "break" or divergence which led to the mirror universe was the death/survival of Edith Keeler.

i don't remember exactly what episode this takes place,so

without spoiling too much, i'll say that i really liked the way she navigated the tightrope between someone going through a tragedy-fueled breakdown and someone spouting insane-sounding shit who nonetheless insists she isn't crazy - i thought she does a great job when the storyline gets to the point where she's…

i think you have a valid point and, for me, it was kind of exemplified in the ways in which D&D has changed over the decades. without getting too into the nerd weeds, i guess i'll just say that a contemporary boss monster that is the culmination of an entire campaign (even a ten-hour campaign) is probably not going to…

yeah the casting of the sheriff was excellent - i love that he's got a body which is soft enough that you can believe he's spent the last year falling asleep on a diet of booze and pills but is still big enough that you can also believe it when he starts knocking dudes the fuck out with one punch.

yeah but shooting the dude was a pretty dumb move, when you think about it - the cook was already half-convinced the blonde woman was from child protective services, so she could have just spent 5 minutes going through the motions and then drove off with the kid.

Aw, Lucas comes through pretty well although I shouldn't say more.

I'm a 1972 baby, so these D&D kids are at most a year or two older than i was in 1984 and while i grew up in Wisconsin instead of Indiana, i'd say they absolutely NAILED the look and the period,

i think the period expression would have been "Don't Bogart it." but maybe that was a regional thing…

yeah i was kinda surprised there weren't more toys - GIJoe, Transformers, He-Man and shit like that - if these kids were what, 13 or so in 1984 (they're in middle school, right?) and that into D&D and comic books, i would have expected to see a lot more than just a Millennium Falcon. i mean, at least some Secret Wars…

yeah i remember contemporary country (Dolly Parton, Alabama, Kenny Rogers) being a lot more prevalent back in those days too.

i'm on episode 7 right now and i have to say that having the blonde woman just shoot the short-order cook in the head was pretty inconsistent with the way the rest of the show unfolds. i mean, without dropping a bunch of spoilers it's hard to cite specific actions and i'm not saying this secret government agency are…

Forget it, Ricky… it's the Internet. (tries pulling RickySplaining away from the eyeball-shot corpse of Dane Cook which is slumped over the horn of a droning jalopy.)

i can't wait to see a bryan fuller pastie.

i'm from wisconsin and love stuff set in my home state so i will say yes based simply on the travelogue aspects of the novel… which, to be honest, are sort of hit and miss. i think the biggest failing of the book was in the editing - as an outsider with no industry knowledge, it seemed to me that Gaiman came to the…

i actually loved Jeremy Piven in CUPID - i mean, Rob Thomas has a pretty excellent track record, but the re-imagining he did with Bobby Cannavale was flat and lifeless so i have to given Piven and the rest of the cast in the original some credit. (and, to be honest, the original cast was phenomenal.)

it's BROTHAH you faker.