I think Rowling has said that she actually sees Ron as the big hero of the story. Which, come to think of it, kind of demotes Hermione from "badass accomplice" to "girlfriend of the hero".

To be fair, I thoroughly enjoyed season 5. It was a great uptick after the disaster that was the Alexei Volkov/Chuck's Mom plotlines of season 4 (and even the back half of season 3). Chuck is the textbook example of how network indecisiveness over will-they-wont-they cancellation can kill a show's creative momentum.…

It would be an awful decision to spend $200M on a BioShock movie. It's just asking for trouble to spend that much on something that's not a sure thing (like, say, the next Iron Man sequel or Pixar animation). Only 11 movies made over $200M domestically (yes I know, overseas and DVD money, but I'm using this as a rule…

I would watch the hell out of a spin-off focused on Arya and Gendry moving in together as roommates, with Tywin Lannister as their grumpy but wise landlord.

People in my industry (wind power) talk somewhat seriously about the potential that airships have to access high wind locations in tough terrain. Generally, the higher up you get the better the winds are, which is why except in the prairies most wind farms are built along ridge lines. In many cases the ability to…

"There's no forced modern additions, no silly comic relief, no attempt to be some revisionist "hip" retelling of an ancient tale. It simply tries to imagine the tale of Jack and his beanstalk"

Setting aside for a moment the fact that the majority of the jokes he's getting pilloried for seemed (to me at least) to be lampooning the various stereotypes he's being criticized for perpetuating (although I did not like the Jennifer Aniston comment), I wonder how much of the hate Seth MacFarlane is getting is due…

"Detroit and Columbus join "Eastern" conferences, instead of staying out west. Currently in the West, these teams constantly have to fly to the coast, and rack up more travel than just about anyone."

Wasn't this a plot point in a Jeffrey Archer novel?

Yep, also Christian Bale in The Machinist and 50 Cent in All Things Fall Apart

I'm actually going to go against the crowd and disagree. While no one (except for Hathaway herself) knows if her diet was really "too much" or "over the top", as an audience it makes sense for us to appreciate actors who are totally immersed in their role - that look, act, and feel the part. Hollywood has a ton of…

OK, so I've seen like a bajillion versions of this trailer, and that mid air swordfight is in every single one, and I still can't get over the question of why they don't just shorten their ropes. I mean, sure it looks cool to fence in mid air, but just shorten the arc and cut their opponents' strings.

And that's why the government passes laws, spends millions, and mandates private companies to spend even more trying to prevent smoking. Now I'm not saying that the situations are exactly analogous, but if your response to the fact that societal obesity drives up health care costs is to say "smoking does it too!" then…

Roses are Red

No it's not. If dazzle camo worked (and I think we'd all like to believe that it does since it's an amazingly cool concept, even if the evidence isn't totally clear) it didn't operate on the principle of tricking people into thinking a ship wasn't there. The idea was that it would trick the enemy observers into…

Yep, and I also chuckled at "Presidents and Interns". Neither are anywhere close to as bad as the Racist Rager.

Ways in which this is good:

I'll go one further. I don't see the evidence that Melissa McCarthy is some comedic genius like we all want her to be. Is she funny? Yes, probably. She did a good job on SNL and absolutely owned her character in Bridesmaids. But Mike and Molly is painfully bad, and wringing laughs out of a supporting character that…

I feel like most of my dislike of Amy revolves around Rory. Not that I really disliked Rory, I just thought it was ridic that the writers seemed to think they needed some other character to explain why Amy and the Doctor weren't hookin up.

Yep, I was gonna say if you ran the poll on io9 Firefly would've won