I seem to have a thing for Vincent Ventresca. Which is really weird, cause like, he has no eyebrows, and the first thing I ever saw him in, I couldn’t stand him. Looking back on it, the fact that he was so good at being an arrogant, pompous English professor, really says a lot for his talent. At the time, tho, it was more a matter of me staring at him and going, “Why are you on my television set?”

He excels at the everyman smart-guy thing, tho. You know, the kind of guy you always see reading comics or downloading porn. And then one day you realize he’s got quantum equations scribbled in the margins of all his old Spidermans, or that he’s got a second window open, and is writing a new security program for the Pentagon between downloads. The kind of guy who eats chili bacon cheeseburgers and listens to the Clash while he discovers the formula that’s gonna save the world.

He’s annoying in comedies, but he’s endearing and funny in sci fi dramas. Welcome to the sense-making.

…..and precisely when did the Sci-Fi Channel gain possession of my soul, anyway?