#6 is about battles where the psychic forces themselves are visualized - as lightning, or balls of light - as opposed to "two people frown at each other with fingers held to their temples", that used to be the standard way of showing a psychic battle in Western movies and TV shows. See:…

Thanks for the clarification. I too find it annoying when specific terms are misused or diluted. My own pet peeve is "MacGuffin", which people often misuse to refer to any object involved in the plot of a story, rather than the actual meaning of an object that exists only to be pursued for the sake of the plot.

Little known fact - this is actually a photo of Master Sgt. Zackery saluting as he is about to enter the plane, not exit it. That's how badass and superheroey he is.

I'm not as avid a reader as you are, but wasn't there another story where Dredd's head was featured "obscured", but only because he had plastic surgery to change his face so he could infiltrate a criminal organization?

As a Kate Beaton fan, I thank you for posting this witty and topical comment.

Only exceeded in awesomeness by this...

I think "Hogan's Heroes" goes to show the only way you can do a light comedy about a dark topic is to water it down to the point where the Nazi are bumbling fools and there is no suffering in the POW camp. At that point the setting is irrelevant as 'Nazi' and 'POW' are just labels with no connection to the characters…

Anna may be making a return - check out the graffiti in the background of this screencap, apparently from the teaser for 2x04.

"Writing jokes for cartoons is more important than sleep"

Hooray for stupidity resulting in more stupidity! It's like the entertainment industry is a perpetual moron machine.

It's been a while since I read the books, but unless they specifically say that magic is controlled by genetics then the terms "mudbloods" and "purebloods" may just refer to whether parents were wizards or not. For example, there is no "aristocrat gene", but that has not stopped European and other aristocracy putting…

Same here - my teenage daughters give me the side-eye every time they see me watching it, but I'm really enjoying the smart jokes, and appreciate the fact that some of the humor is pushing the envelope - at least for a Disney.

Perhaps its meant to symbolize that you should not judge a book by its cover?

They're not lesbians, it's just a phase their going through because they're in college. You know, they had a little bit too much to drink and wanted to experiment.

That's an interesting interpretation that I hadn't thought of. You've got a good point that the boy's final actions go against what his father had been teaching him. You can either see it has him regaining some trust in humanity, or (cynically) as him not getting his father's lessons.

The son in "The Road" is a completely bland and empty character that only servers as a foil to the father and his emotions. I would not call it a "coming of age" story at all, because the son does not come of age, and in fact does not exhibit any growth at all. At the end of the book he is just transferred from one…

*sigh* You're a plant working for Netflix trying to trick me into signing up again so I can watch all the old Dr. Who episodes, aren't you?

I don't remember a lot about Sarah Jane Smith, but one scene that sticks out was from "Genesis of the Daleks" where she gets separated from the Doctor and Harry in a war-torn post-apocalyptic landscape. Her first action on realizing she is alone and other people are coming? She starts looting the corpses to find a…

Ssssh! Corvidbirdgirl is here so I can't say anymore. As a representative of the Goat Power Lobby she doesn't kid around!

Appalling, or revealing? If you want to know who is behind this conspiracy, work out who is set to profit most from it!