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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuuyQFKunr8 This is the scene from Human Nature where the Doctor leaves a video with instructions for Martha. In the episode, Martha fast forwards through part of the video, but here, we get to see David Tennant improv his way through the fast-forwarded part. It's...

And it would have been even easier for him to not bother with the telekinesis at all and simply phase through the door. Yet another power he conveniently forgot he had.

If that's the lesson he learned, then he learned the wrong lesson. The problem wasn't that season 2 was too much like season 1; the problem was that there were way too many incidences of either characters behaving stupidly or things just randomly happening just to move the plot along, and...

I think that's it for me and Heroes. Beyond the terminal stupidity displayed by most of the characters, I feel like they haven't really developed at all this season, and in fact, some of them have actually regressed back to where they were early in season 1. I don't think I'm up for another...

Klingons are allies of the Federation now?!?! This isn't Star Trek anymore!

The singularly most powerful motivator in the game is to have fun. If the players think they can have more fun by doing something other than completing a quest the DM gives them, they're pretty likely to do that, bonus XP or no. After all, they can always earn more XP, but a few hours spent on a...

There's that word again - "force." Again, I will ask - how does offering bonus XP for taking a particular action equate to forcing players to take that action? They are still free to do whatever they like - they may not get the bonus XP, but they can just get XP in other ways.

Hmm. This sounds an awful lot like 4E, where you'll be able to give XP for quests that are completely unrelated to combat and killing foes. What playstyle is that, and how is offering bonus XP forcing anyone to do anything?

Also, I've seen the term "railroading" get thrown around a lot in this discussion. I don't think the people using it know what it actually means. Merely offering incentives isn't raliroading. Now, something like this: DM: The town's mayor asks you to go clear the nearby crypt of undead. Player...

Now you are the one making things up. Mearls' blog post says nothing about "forcing" anyone to do anything.

You must never have played at very high levels, then. Once you hit maybe 12th-13th level or so, healing potions simply didn't cut it anymore. They were fine for after-battle healing, but during combat, you usually needed a lot more than they could give.

You don't need any special skills to drop down from a second story window. Pretty much anyone can do it, and even notwithstanding her power, Monica is a young adult in pretty good physical condition. It would have been easy for her.

Alejandro not calling the cops is fine, but then he goes to confront a confessed murderer at night, in an isolated motel room, alone, and without a weapon or a plan of any kind? That's approaching a level of stupidity usually reserved for teenagers in horror movies. Although, this is the same...

Again, even if he's lying, or just guessing, he still directly contradicted what he'd said earlier when he told Peter it was impossible for the company to kill him. The fact that that didn't set off any alarm bells with Peter can only mean one of two things: 1. The writers can't even keep the...

After Adam shot Pratt, he said "She was about to take your head off, Peter. There's no coming back from that."

I wish I could believe that, but this isn't the first time this season that the characters have acted like idiots. Far from it.

Okay, if Adam's lying, then we're back to Peter being an idiot, because Adam told him that the company couldn't kill him, and now he's telling him that there's "no coming back" from getting his head blown off.... He's directly contradicting himself and Peter doesn't even get a little suspicious...

Oh, and did anyone else notice that just two episodes ago, Adam told Peter "If it were possible to kill me, the company would have," but in this episode, apparently all you have to do to kill him is blow his head off? Do the writers for this show ever even talk to each other?

Oh my god, this episode was terrible. Everyone in this episode fell out of the stupid tree and hit every single branch on the way down. I used to like these characters and enjoyed seeing them overcome the challenges they faced, and now I can't be bothered to care about them because they're...

Chuck has improved slightly since the beginning, but it still has one big problem. Every week, there's an A plot, which involves something spy-related, and a B plot, which involves Chuck's personal life. Okay, so far so good - the plots play off of and reinforce each other, the way that good TV...