Beck+Binder Cap is even crazier than Silver Age Superman. And that is saying something.

Honestly, why WB isn't trying to make an animated feature-length for kids from the Metal Men is beyond me.

"Pyle, have you ever been mistaken for a man?"

Hm. I wonder why Peterson is so enamored with it, then? Perhaps, like me, it's more about how it flows when spoken, or its choices of morphemes that hint at Earth languages, than any grammatical or other structural complexity. Anyway, thanks for the insight!

There's not nearly enough completely unnecessary cleavage.

We owe them awe…some amounts of indifference.

This was my first thought. My second thought was, "Wow, I'm actually being trolled by the AVC - as if For Your Considerations weren't bad enough."

I could listen/read this sort of thing all day. I constantly marvel at how carved with history the English language is - wars, occupations, religions, trade, science, technological change: it's all there in everyday speech. To try and recreate that sort of accruing, river-like shaping in a constructed language just…

Wow, I didn't know you were a conlanger. There had to be at least one around here!
The whole concept and practice absolutely fascinates me. One thing I found interesting (well, I found the whole article absolutely fascinating) is his love of the Divine Language from Fifth Element. Just the little bits we get I could…

Wouldn't that be such a fun exercise for a conlanger - taking the assumption that Ancient Egyptian is actually a extraterrestrial language, then transplanting it into dozens of offshoot worlds where it becomes intermingled with local tongues, yet enough remains that Earth scholars can still use it as a lingua franca…

I think it's now "Velvet Jones University Online".

Oh, I know some rouge mages that make an absolute killing. Cosmetolomancers can find work nearly anywhere, even out of their homes or as journeywitches.

I'd argue that one key usefulness of a degree (and a degree's "brand") isn't exactly class, but a function of class: access. With your tuition costs, you are essentially paying for direct access to people with intimate knowledge of how to succeed within a given field, and (ideally, if not always in practice) as that…

I also watched it all through Netflix, and I'm convinced it makes the show better: plot and character threads (which tend to dangle from one episode only to be tied in a few eps later) weave more clearly, the pace is just right for watching in blocs, digressions are less frustrating, recurring themes become more…

Excellent point. If they'd just let her be a total badass more often (like they did with Sayid and Sawyer), she'd have been a much more successful character.

I never found the twist that bad - but then again, I grew up in Pennsylvania (where The Village is set and MNS grew up), a state that is packed full of separatists of one stripe or another, and equally packed with vast, mysterious arboretums and preserves.

Even more egregious, I think, is all the screentime wasted on new characters, who all fail to justify their existences by not deepening plots, pushing character growth, strengthening themes, or even being particularly memorable. It all just took away from the pretty rich web of relationships between the characters…

The Awake pilot is so good - and so self-contained - it would work pretty darn well as a forty-minute short film. I've recommended a few people to just watch the pilot as its own entity.

One remarkable thing about BB, though: it really doesn't have any genuinely bad episodes. It has a few that are plot-movers or try things that don't work for everyone (like "Fly"), but really, it never ever seems to dip much from a stunningly consistent level of quality.

Wiseguy, a hugely important link in the evolution of modern story-arc-driven television.