That's absolutely a false equivalency. Setting aside the issue of the validity of "reimagining" famous characters, there is no shortage of shows/movies with male heroes in the lead role but the same cannot be said about female protagonists. It's absolutely salt in this wound that they would take an iconic female…

“Why the fuck is Canada so lazy?”

You've gotta think that ESPN wants Silver to develop proprietary analytics for them right? Between Silver's history with PECOTA and ESPN's attempt a year or two ago with Total QBR, I think the obvious assumption is that the WWL is recognizing that most viewers want to see the stats, but also want to display them in a…

Let me get this straight. We will travel in a metal tube, way up in the air, in a place known for having gravity? What could possibly go wrong? I don't get a very warm and fuzzy feeling thinking about slamming into the ground that the plane has fallen thousands of feet to after losing power. Now do I like the idea of…

That's the only way I see it working too (which doesn't address how to go from NY to LA, but San Fran to LA could be doable). Neutral buoyancy tubes anchored to the sea floor running at a constant depth of ~25m .

I'll take the dystopian over the vampire/urban fantasy-romance trend that preceded it. Hunger Games was good, so was Divergent, and there are a few other examples of the genre that are very fun and readable (The Dark Inside, Enclave, Ashfall).

Both the Leafs and the Habs are huge draws in Florida, so that's a part of it. Travel-wise the distance for Florida and Tampa to get to the Northeast is not significantly different whether you're going to Pittsburgh and New Jersey or Toronto and Ottawa. Also by doing this the Metropolitan division keeps historical…

Does anyone really know for certain what characters Sony holds the rights to as part of the Spiderman bundle? They gave up Daredevil, but what about his associated characters (like Kingpin)? Elektra? What about characters that are related to both Spiderman and the Avengers?

Rebooting the franchise again would seriously dilute the IP to the point where nobody cares.

Yes, and no. While the atomic bomb may have saved lives when looking back and doing the calculus, that was hardly the primary motivation behind the bombings (especially of Nagasaki). Truman (as well as Stalin) knew that Japan's defeat was inevitable, and it was only a matter of how and when. By 1945 the Americans were…

There's so much hate for Clarke in this thread. I mean, no, I don't think she's the best actress on the show either, but that's setting the bar really really high. Her character is also one of the weakest-written, and while she may not have transcended the material she does not bring her scenes down. I think people…

Episodes 9: Neil Marshall

I'm not sure It's a lot of running, but it's a lot of exercise, the first thing to go when I get busy is always the lifting. It works for me, but the broader point is that mixing it up is what I've found to be key. It's not just about running 10k a day or about doing hill sprints every other day it's about trying to…

Or, you know, mix it up. These days I'm playing ultimate frisbee one or two days a week which I count as cardio days, so I try and do a least one more long jog (10k +) and maybe another shorter one (6-8k) on a light day. Mix that in with one or two days of intervals (hills, stairs, or tabata sprints) and a few days of…

Because it represents the ideal they hold dearest: that the world owes them something more. That they are destined to be a hero with awesome kung fu and get the sexy girl dressed in tight leather, since this is what they deserve. See also: Wanted.

Music festivals aside, I have twice in the last few years paid upwards of 50 bucks for a show, Foo Fighters and Black Keys. And countless times (most recently a week and a half ago for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) I have paid $30-50. And although I complained about overpriced tickets about it at the time, in context it's not…

I could reply with some sort of defense of the book's plot and characters, or even a discussion of it's importance in the cultural context of popular media, but instead I'll just say $700 million says hi...

Blasphemy. Seasons 4 & 5 were way better than season 3, not just because of Vince (and the other new characters that nailed it, notably Jess and Luke) but also because of the lack of ridiculous murder plotlines and less screentime for the annoying new quarterback kid.

Very true. That's probably giving Hollywood a bit too much credit to be able to pull that off without making it seem cheap or exploitative, but if done right it could easily be a powerful story. My point was more towards the discussion of "why not make Peter Parker gay?".

Peter's relationships with Mary Jane and Gwen are pretty essential to how his character evolved.