Quotes:

  • “The controversy is not about whether if Osama bin Laden phones you, the government should be listening in. It’s about whether the Bush administration can overlook a law that was set up to govern how wiretaps would be done, and can conduct them without any oversight, either before or after the fact. How come nobody’s polling on how we feel about that?” – Mark Evanier
  • “In order to find another five million people who have not already read The Da Vinci Code, they’re going to have to start passing the damn things out to newborn babies along with the free formula samples.” – Jessa Crispin1
  • “Quite a fun series, even if it doesn’t really live up to the quality I often expect from an early-cancelled show.” DVD Times, on Point Pleasant, the first and only season of which is now out on DVD2
  • “Inspector Clouseau has been played by other actors before Martin (Alan Arkin and Roger Moore), but what’s the point? The character isn’t bigger than the actor, as Batman and maybe James Bond are. The character is the actor, and I had rather not see Steve Martin, who is himself inimitable, imitating Sellers.” – Roger Ebert
  • “It’s the whole thing of deadlines being cowards, and not spacing themselves out sensibly, but hiding behind things and leaping out at people all at once.” Neil Gaiman

1 I’m happy to report I’ve never read it.

2 I’m amused by this because it seems counter-intuitive. You’d think if a show was cancelled early its run, it would happen because of its lack of quality. But no, we live in the Bizarro Universe, where the exact opposite is more often true.