The sad thing is, the Simarillion was more engaging than PSS.

GOD IS NOT HERE TODAY, PRIEST!

Galadriel sure as hell better not fuck her lovely Noldor face up with plastic surgery. It'd be an affront to the Eldar, and to the Valar for that matter.

I agree. Vicious and mean, and shallow. Almost as if this was written by a HATEFUL MALE.

Huh. Inordinate amount of dead women in this movie, seems like.

"In what way am I not meant to take that as you endorsing that position? You've just said it was true, now you're attacking me for assuming that you think it's true? That position also suggests you're making a claim about ALL men."

What, no Dragonlance? I cut my teeth on that cliche crap, and loved every minute of it.

I also like how you attempted to rebrand the act of noticing women into something devious and predatory: "learn not to treat all women as sexual targets." You got me, pard — I'm Dirty Man # 5 on this week's To Catch a Predator. It seems to me that you were purposely trying to cast me in an unsavory light —…

Let me respond to your claims respectfully, something which you haven't seemed to have quite mastered.

Never said anything of the sort, or tried to argue otherwise. ;)

I'm not sure if you're addressing that last bit to all men or just to me. I wasn't arguing from biology, merely pointing out my sex. Nor was I trying to say that all genders are Y as a result of being X, etc.

I'm a man. I'm visually stimulated. I look. Subtly, of course.

I've got a raging boner for this season.

Why are you so shocked? Imbecile racists exist in this country, most of whom have 2nd Grade reading comprehension skills. Tards will be tards.

I was a little surprised when Katniss found water forty seconds into the Games.

I enjoyed watching the movie far more than reading the book. Katniss is an annoying, unreliable narrator; it was refreshing to see the big picture — different perspectives, from Haymitch to the Gamemaker and Snow — as opposed to being trapped inside her head for the entire novel. Shaky cam bothered me initially but I…

The dark irony is there in that alternate ending. The realization that he, to the mutants/vampires/whatever, had become a thing to be feared.

Freedom of expression. Should look it up sometime.

Gardner Dozois wrote a decent meta-alt-history short story about such an event. I forget the name, but it's in his most recent collection of short fiction.

Agreed. I stopped watching halfway through season two because none of the characters were likable and the plot bored the shit out of me.