Omigod the midichloreans. With a couple lines of exposition, the Jedi go from being warrior priests to mutant superheroes. No longer can you pluck some random farmboy and turn him into a lone defender of good with a hokey religion. Now they're a bunch of aryans who literally have the right to rule in their blood. They just need to be freed from the dirty Jew (that's also a flying bug) that's holding them back.

Red Tails must be Lucas overcompensating for something.

"obviously-choreographed", Scagsdale, "obviously-choreographed." We all know swordfights are choreographed. The trick, which the three prequels failed at, is to make them look unchoreographed. Just like we all know the words are written for the actors, but the trick, which the three prequels failed at, is to make them seem natural and spontaneous.

Holy crud am I tired of faux documentary sitcoms. And the length of the American broadcast season makes it worse.

The show is called How I Met, not How I Met, Then Dated, Then Got Engaged and Married to Your Mother. Once the Meeting is done it's pretty much over, and meeting is more spontaneous than getting off an island.

2 Broke Girls has an interesting twist to the typical rich x/poor y who are thrust together scenario. But the show is boring, poorly acted and barely written. They can't even bring themselves to use a decent laugh track.

I'm going to assume that when you typed "conservative views" you meant "liberal views" and just say "huh?" to your closing statement, because the original use of the word "trifles" was itself a spoof of leftists from Robespierre's original terroristes all the way up to Kim Jong-Il.

I know I would.

Except for the concentration camps and invading-your-neighbors trifles, exactly what does the modern liberal have against the Nazi program? The public works projects? The bending of corporations to the will of the state? The reverence for things natural and organic? The racial spoils system? The government funding of advanced technology programs? The subsuming of an individual's will, desires and efforts toward the organizing of the community?

I would say The Twilight Zone was, while less child-friendly, more simplistic than Star Trek. Serling really liked to beat the viewer over the head with sociology and politics, especially in the later years of the series, and not just in the closing monologues. While a good writer for the screen, nuance and subtlety were never really his strengths, all the way up to Planet of the Apes.

If a conservative had produced a series propounding right-wing values with the same verve, critics would have called him ham-handed.

Yep. The phrase "smear campaign" implies that the subject doesn't deserve it.

A few points, including spoilers:
1: This was a pretty sloppy episode. Why were victims kept alive so long? Why do they need 2 tubes inserted into the victim's neck to drain blood? In what modern cop show does a medical professional just hand over a patient's records? Why does it take so long for the cops to trace an address associated with a telephone number? How can the Grimm be surprised that the pharmacist's contact number and the courier's burn phone have the same address in common?

2: A Portland cop makes a crack about capitalism? Can you see the shock on my face?

3: I didn't notice the anti-semitism of the creatures and fairy tale aspects, but then I didn't notice the similar anti-semitism of Star Trek TNG and DS9. If you live in a culture that's mostly free of that kind of mittel-Europan baggage you can enjoy something that would otherwise be ruined. I thought they were just vultures as opposed to wolves or rats or snakes.

4: Isn't it kind of racist to assume a Latina can't play a Jew, or that a Latina character can't have a Jewish surname (married, adopted, Jewish father/Guatemalan mother, witness protection program)?