“Now, we always try to take a balanced approach to both sides of the political divide here at The A.V. Club”

You’re right, a movie as great as TLJ would have been an impossible act for a middling director like Trevorrow to follow. Good point.

Nah, Jagger’s a great vocalist. Capable of subtlety, good phrasing, distinctive. Of course you’re not going to get that seeing him live at age seventywhatever. Listen to No Expectations, the non-Stones Memo From Turner, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Emotional Rescue, his version of The Long Black Veil with the…

“And while it’s a quick way for the game to get its message across, fast-forwarding through Jeane’s backstory is a disgustingly callous move that minimizes all the horror, much of it sexual, that she went through.”

I’m not sure this is entirely fair. If we were talking about a documentary, then there would be merit to…

“I know he apologized and she accepted his apology, but fuck that, let’s turn this more toxic”

“But let’s continue to analyze the meaningfulness of apologies people won’t even stick to...”

You obviously know some music theory so that gives you more credibility than most. That being said, I too know music theory and I think we both know that there’s frequent chord progressions that are used widely within the music community. Look at 50's era Rock n Roll. Blues. Jazz standards.

I think the offer of 40% was fair and I’m kind of surprised they didn’t take it. Aside from the first minute, the songs are completely different. She intentionally or unintentionally cribbed the first verse or two, sure, but what makes Creep so memorable is really the chorus and especially the bridge.

Yes, we’re all very proud of you.

I feel like the whole debate is a holdover from when TV was a ghetto whose creatives only ambition was supposed to be to escape to film. It’s a TV show. It was always understood that it would air first in parts, on TV. It’s that simple.

And we should be celebrating the fact that some corners of TV have gotten so…

I like Mantis a lot. She is so weird. My favorite Marvel character by far. I hate how she gets bashed for not being a bad ass.

I hadn’t noticed the byline until you pointed it out. Pang is the same guy who doesn’t like Pet Sounds because “all the songs end on a fade-out, which has always felt like a songwriting cop-out.” So yeah, feel free to disregard anything he says about music ever.

No, because it’s a TV show.

It’s rare that one man can manage to hold a 17 year old PETA volunteer’s views on animal rights AND an 85 year old racist grandfather’s views of multiculturalism at the same time. He has also reached that far more common right wing sweet spot of dismissing actual sexual assaults in the news while pretending that…

the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: “there’s actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron”

He could’ve taken the same tack many others are and said, “I had no idea! This is terrible and shocking!” Instead, he says what should be said, and he (appropriately) calls himself out as well. I give someone a lot of props for acknowledging what he did wrong and why.

Counterpoint - Yes. The Mr. Show revival was really good and would provide a good model for this. Just do a handful of episodes to keep the quality high, and don’t make any plans for any further seasons. I liked KITH: Death Comes to Town, but my biggest complaint was it wasn’t a sketch show, it was a narrative…

Blade Runner (specifically the Director’s Cut), is my all-time favorite film. I greatly enjoyed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? as well, but they really do feel like two separate entities. They both ask the question “What makes a true human different from an artificial human?” But the novel provides a pretty-much…

Deckard’s status is not relevant to Roy’s decision if Roy is not aware of it. Roy decides to end his life saving someone, and that’s what mattered.