I'm gonna go against the flow here and say that I really like The Marshall. I don't see his character as a cartoonish portrayal by the writers, I see it as a persona adopted by a deranged man who's seen too many Westerns, kind of a James Holmes thing. In my mental backstory, he was a doorman or salesman or something…

I love The Incredibles, but it's probably the most objectivist cartoon ever made. Even though Syndrome's supposed to be the bad guy, the whole movie is trying to sell the idea that the reason you're unhappy is that you're special, and the rest of the world is trying to drag you drag you down to mundanity.

Definitely true. Pixar's "best" movies, from an adult perspective, deal with coming-of-age and identity issues that little kids really can't relate to yet. The Incredibles is a great example, but I think Inside Out takes the prize.

That's because she's a *British* moron.

See, if the movie had just said "this world has dinosaurs and humans in it, deal with it", then people like Dikachu and I would probably just go "Oh, OK" and accept it as an impossible fantasy premise like talking cars, rat chefs, or girls who play hockey.

Yeah, that sounds like a running gag that'll remain hilarious yet tasteful and respectful over the long haul, and really show The A.V. Club's commentariat at its best.

The only Frankenstein movie worth watching is the one with Frau Blucher.

She knows that she is marketed as a desirable woman

Or just a coy smile that turns them into a gibbering idiot. Make no mistake, this woman is lethal.

The show is now roughly even with the end of the last book.

Hmm, I haven't seen Gotham. Maybe Baccarin's spark on Firefly was mostly because Joss Whedon was writing her dialogue. But Christina Hendricks is doing fine, repartee-wise, without him.

Seriously, what the hell is Gabriel even doing on this show? I realize his job is to be the designated fuckup, but they've got a whole town full of those now.

And she's laying out plans like it's the middle ages, but who the hell needs a millstone when every one of those houses has a cuisinart in it?

Let's say that the point of Glenn's apparent death was just to fuck with the audience, is that such a bad thing?

I think Rick was right to tear down the invites. A prayer group led by a total coward is not going to strengthen anyone's resolve. That chickenshit asshole would just panic the whole town with his stammering.

From what I've gathered each episode is like a day or two days makes which makes no sense

It's a 24-hour trip today thanks to the Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways we built during the Cold War. It'd probably be a lot longer on the bombed-out two-lane roads of occupied America, unless the Reich has been building a ton of autobahns, Marshall plan style.

Yeah, I love the little ways cultural hegemony is going in different directions. Have you noticed that Julianna reflexively bows to people and catches herself? It's a nice subtle bit of acting.

OK, found it. (S1, E4, 21:38). It lists the basic reactions for a lithium deuteride H-bomb. As Mercury Culminate points out, fusion H-bombs are massively more destructive than fission A-bombs, but the very first H-bombs were the size of a small building. These equations describe the next level up from that, and…

I'm a physics professor. Nuclear physics isn't my thing, but I can confirm that it was definitely H-bomb stuff. (Annoyingly I can't find that scene again to go back and look in detail, I just recognized it as it went by. And it didn't occur to me until now that the average viewer wouldn't have picked up on that…