"We conclude our look at made for TV mockumentaries" - are one-off TV mockumentaries a crowded field? Did you look at all of them or were they oddly common in that time period? I guess the most recent one I can think of is "Forgotten Silver" by Peter Jackson, which seems a bit of a different sort of mockumentary.
And…

I have a couple of suggestions but I honestly can't remember if they were the very last scene… I'm pretty sure the scene in The Truman Show that I'm thinking of is not quite the final one, and there are a few reaction shots before the credits. But they don't count, dammit!
The other one The Tale of Princess Kaguya,…

Mostly music for me as well. I know pretty much nothing about anything that isn't video game music.
Also, I feel that way to a lesser extent about most things apart from video games. I spend way more time reading articles about things than actually watching them…

I feel like I have to catch up on these eventually. So maybe in some random month or other you will get a notification that I've replied to a Thoughts On from ages ago. :)

Oh my God, I actually just looked at the whole post for once since it seemed like you were finishing the show, and I see that you have a section with my name on it… Now I feel really terrible Franko, I actually stopped watching really early on, and then did not read your posts since I was telling myself I was gonna…

"Let's name a bunch of plants and animals after the rude things they look a bit like"
Carl Linnaeus, probably

It's kind of weird that this became as well known as it did. Enough that a message board post from 2000 became crucial to the plot of a 2011 anime.
Having said that, maybe it's not so well known, cause I only knew about it from Steins;Gate.

Ah, I mostly missed out on the big discussions this week. :(
Looked like there was a lot of interesting stuff in there actually!

Well now I have to watch! I'm happy he's getting to achieve his dream. :)

Well, this week I've been playing Minecraft again. I saw a comment somewhere that made me realize a way to make the game more fun for me. The comment was about how they preferred the game in older versions, when the landmasses were smaller. And from my massive mapping project in my previous world, I realized that I…

Well, my clearest-remembered chain of pop culture discovery goes like this:
Some Pokemon forum or other > Tvtropes > the Nostalgia Critic > all of the TGWTG site > Oancitizen/Brows held high's Shakespeare month > Slings and Arrows > The AV Club.
If all the links weren't in place, I would not have discovered one of my…

Someone else has seen the Poirot+Marple anime?! Thank goodness I'm not the only one to have suffered through any of that!
Proof if proof were needed that combining two good things (and adding a duck) will not necessarily lead to something good, and may in fact lead to a morass of mind-numbing blandness.

Awesome! I think Line Wobbler may be turning up at an event I'm off to in the UK, so I can't wait to wobble some lines! For all the descriptions I've heard, it's still very confusing to me how it might work. 1-dimensional makes it a sort of reverse Miegakure in a way?

Going through Predictably Irrational a "popular science" (maybe?) book by Dan Ariely. It's a reread, but I don't remember anything from the previous go-around. I was particularly surprised by the introduction, which describes how he became interested in people's behaviour when he was horribly injured as a teenager.…

How is Making Comics? I had heard the ones after Understanding Comics were not as good, but you seem to be enjoying it. I guess from the title it has a different focus to Understanding, perhaps more specific to comics (one of the things I liked best about Understanding was that, with a little work, the concepts could…

Since someone else mentioned an anime, I'm gonna go for Lucky Star, one of the first anime series I watched. Why would anyone watch Lucky Star, a series with a bunch of anime references, as one of their first animes? Well, someone on the internet said it was good. And I hadn't yet worked out how to tell when watching…

I'm not sure I "regret" watching Sherlock. The good bits are still really good in my opinion. It's just that, actually looking back on the episodes, there were 2 I thought were really great, a couple that were just okay, and a couple that were terrible. The high points are really high, but they're swamped by the rest.…

But the thief now has a time machine, so he could go back to a minute before the minute before he stole the time machine, and stop the heroes from stopping him from stealing the time machine!

The Narrator from The Stanley Parable. Going from from the quintessential narrator, to mocking you, to your worst enemy, to pathetic, to almost sympathetic. And delivering the jokes perfectly all the while.

Well, I thought the discussion in that article was really interesting. Although it seems nearly impossible for games to make a point about violence coherently, I'm confident it can be done.