Watching that movie, I couldn't believe that someone could set themselves to making such a slavish reproduction of something, and yet somehow completely miss the point of it.

I think he was looking for 'literary author' which I've always thought was a dumb term as well.

I kinda like the level of weird where it is. Go too far and you edge towards giving this universe rules. I like where it is at the moment - anything can happen, but not everything will.

Pretty sure most of the Lindelof bashing is by people who don't watch the show. I mean, I get it: it sucks to have paid full price to see Prometheus in the theater, but at some point you're going to have to accept that Ridley Scott did his fair share of fucking up, too. It's not like some studio guy shoved the script…

Take it somewhere else, loser. The cool kids are watching 'Blindspot'.

The thing I like about network dramas is that you can take any concept you want, no matter how big or small, outlandish or sane, and get it on the air as long as you slap the words "…to solve crimes" onto the end of it.

Well now I'm sad.

I think I've maybe watched five complete episodes of NCIS - is there ever an explanation as to why a super-alternative goth girl has decided to work for that bastion of anti-authoritarianism, the United States Navy?

Maybe the show will grow into something fantastic. Or maybe it'll churn out episode after episode following the same pattern, save for an occasional mythology episode, until the season 3 finale when the FBI guy suddenly disappears and comes back with a bunch of tattoos. What a twist! NBC, you've done it again!

I feel like by stating upfront that the PreCrime system was infallible (as opposed to being a numbers game of probability and likelihood), the movie ensures that PreCrime is flawed all the way through.

I think she was just the best of them, so if there was a minority report it was because of her.

Not to mention the fact that but for their prediction about Cruise, he wouldn't have been in a position to kill Leo Crow at all. So they actually orchestrated that murder…somehow.

Is that right, though? I remember that the precogs generate a murder result for Cruise on that guy, and show him pulling the trigger. When it comes down to it, though, Cruise doesn't pull the trigger and the guy instead kills himself in a manner different to what's depicted in the precog vision a few moments later. It…

The Hawk-Eye initiative sounds pretty cool, though - the idea that you could predict someone's behaviour through AI analysis of their metadata and digital footprint could be fascinating material for a TV show…oh wait, Person of Interest already exists? Never mind then.

Exactly. It's not a bad idea, it's a weirdly badly executed idea. The very premise of the PreCrime Unit shows that the future can be altered, and Tom Cruise's own actions prove that if a murderer himself is aware of the future, he can make a conscious decision to change it. There's absolutely no need for tubes and all…

I really don't like the way TV shows portray the FBI as a super-organization that credulously sinks a whole bunch of time and money into whatever weird nonsense gets tossed their way.

For all the talk about how good superhero TV shows are, this really shows the limits of how far a small screen budget can take you.

I know it's pretty trendy now to bash Christopher Nolan around a bit, and that detached snark is the order of the day in the AV Club newsroom, but Christopher Nolan is an immensely talented director (even if his abilities as a writer are somewhat lesser). I'm really looking forward to seeing how this pans out.

As long as the circumstances surrounding said death are mysterious, and tied up in the protagonist's self-delusion/denial.

Maybe to the demographic that's watching L&O:UK, urban issues from the mid 1990s feel very current.