It came up in another thread, and I'm curious - what are your top episodes, and why? Top five, top ten, whatever.

Normally I'd answer this question with things I'd say as Mr. DIF, to hopefully get off on the right foot with someone, but I'll answer preferentially for myself instead.

1. Twilight - I think we're really firing on all cylinders here. The energy is high, there's a lot of laughs, there's a lot of mockery, and a lot of fixin.' Plus knowledge of (and mockery, and fixin') the book.

2. Titanic - A big episode, but solid throughout, plus with a well-argued contrarian stance and a lot of history factoids. Plus comedy. Favorite line: "Don't they know we have lard?" - Trey

3. Surrogates - Hard to top the energy of this one, plus the comedy, and the fixin.' Just a fun ass episode.

4. 2012: Moby Dick - Is what it is - the ultimate director's commentary, for a movie from a much maligned studio, with all of the interesting behind-the-curtain fun of an Asylum exposé plus general BTS moviemaking stories to boot.

5. Terminator: Salvation - I think the second-hardest I've ever laughed on the show was at Dorkman's bit about the ILM artist who didn't find out until shoot day that they'd be using puppets. Lots of franchise-wide insight, and good fixin.'

6. Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back - A tie. These are both awesome listening. I think Star Wars is the more solid commentary, but TESB has more of a DIF feel to it, discussing previous drafts and subtlety. Both are funny. But...

7. Return of the Jedi - The hardest I've ever laughed in an episode. "This is your pilot speaking." My god. An otherwise pretty-damn-good episode, but there's about a minute and a half of solid gold toward the 90 minute mark.

8. Legion - I'm proud of us for this one. With a minimum of atheistic snark, four atheists basically rewrite a "God movie" and make it a thousand times more interesting, and more biblical. Plus funny.

9. Explorers - Simply because of our detective work in the last third of this two-thirds-of-a-movie.

10. Scott Pilgrim - I was so worried about this episode, because I thought I was the only one who wasn't a fan. By the end, we have several good reasons why - love it or hate it - it could, fundamentally, be a lot better.

When I introduce someone, I usually send them to Twilight. What about y'all?

So, we're trying something. You might have noticed on the board index there's a minimalist chat room thingy going on. That's what we're trying.

If you're logged into the boards, you're logged into the chat, and you can...you know, chat. With other forumers. We're not sure if we're gonna like having it there or not, and even if we do, what the best way to implement it permanently will be. That's what this week is for. Bug reports, ideas, suggestions, dissensions, all of that.

There are no rules, the law of the forum is the same for the chat. (That said, I myself will be going a little lighter on the profanity in the chat box, just because it's gonna be a first impression for anybody who's visiting the forum for the first time or lurking.)

You're under no obligation to use it, and with the nature of the chatroom being "hey, if you're online, you can say something," there's also no major obligation to announce your arrival or departure. It's just a way to say hi and have minor conversations.

If you end up finding something interesting to talk about, we highly encourage you to make an Off Topic thread about it! The idea here is to be more connected with your fellow forumperson and to promote conversation, not move it over to the chat box. We just thought this might be nifty for folks who are online but don't have anything to add to the current threads. (And talk their way into creating a new one.)

March 4th, 2013: You may now use BBCode in the chat! You should be able to do all of the basic tags such as bold

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italics

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quotes

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