Yeah lumping her in with other 'chosen one' heroes is what I think is confusing people, so my bad there. Katniss always will be a hero to me because she fits the raw definition of what heroes are: People at their best, no matter how small or how big that best is. (And yes, that still applies for all her selfish…

1. I'm talking about the films. Books could easily have this all make sense, I'm just working with what the film's providing me here.

The Lego Movie subverts and dissects that theme in order to enable it, since it blatantly ends with Morgan Freeman's character saying 'You aren't special' I made it all up.

...I kind of like all this? Dig her design, dig Bullock and Gordon, would love if we got a good Noir series out of this.

At least in every other dystopian film there's a reason WHY the hero is different. Neo explicitly isn't different until he actively makes choices about his life. Katniss Everdeen volunteers to protect her baby sister. Rebels are rebels both because they inherently don't fit and they choose to not fit. The raw premise…

I can not get over how it is a film where the main character is persecuted because she is DIFFERENT.

Oh god Kotaku is an Abstergo front. That explains EVERYTHING.

A WE'VE GOT CABIN FEVER

And Muppet Treasure Island! (Which both featured fun performances from Rizzo the Rat)

Good news, no obliterating frozen nights!

....I'd laugh pretty hard at that. >.>

EXCELLENT episode! Especially loved the evolution of the 'eye' since I know stuff about cameras and it's crazy to learn how the eye formed and how it overlaps with our understanding of camera technology.

I think Russia has a dashcam craze? Someone explained this to me a while back and I forget why.

Was driving in the highway in Los Angeles, securely in the exit lane to get on an on-ramp, when a taxi started pulling in SUPER close. Started shouting and braced for impact, we hung near each other for what felt like a solid 10 seconds—-then my mirror knocked his mirror back and he pulled away.

And of course, this is the first step to Mammoth Cavalry that will be used to invade former ex-soviet nations.

Eh, I think there was something super important to casting a black actor for the role. Unfortunately I don't know any other 20-something black actors from that era, and honestly, that film needed his humor to help humanize the human end of the story.

Part of those people's jobs is to ignore everything about what drives the Pixar theory and thank goodness they have.

GO JOHN BOYEGA GO GO FIGHT LIKE THE WIND.

And snappy Will Smith one-liners and well-paced robot action, along with a charismatic performance by Alan Tudyk? I'll take it!