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".

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.

"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…

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

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

That works for some people. Other people need a regimen of some sort to control their eating habits, whether that means 3 square meals and no snacks a day or something else is really an individual thing. I know for me personally, "eat when you're hungry" works great when you've got things to do but when you've got…

Out of curiosity, does it make a difference to you if the minimum wage is not $2.50 (or whatever morally repugnant amount it is in many US jurisdictions) but something more similar to the normal minimum wage (I believe here in Ontario minimum for servers is around 9 bucks)?

True, which is why HDTV will be the single greatest driver of new fans over the next several years. Anyone who's grown up watching the game doesn't really need to see the puck, since to them it's obvious where it is 98% of the time. But to someone new to hockey it sounds stupid to say "ya the point of the game is to…

Nope look closer. Gillis said the offer was for a good player and an overpaid player. Not a good overpaid player. Washington maybe?

"I Know A Liar Since I'm An Aground One."