Glad to see so much love for HMV here.  It's one of those novels I constantly bring up to friends, but I haven't been able to convince anyone to read it (and to be fair, the plot summary doesn't have much of a hook.)  But Lem is one of the few writers who understood that science fiction can actually encourage us to thi…

I'll give you absurd, but I didn't find them very funny.  Opinions and stuff!

Did he cheat? On you? On a test? On his diet? Of course not, look at him, he’s a knockout.

Your poll is bad and you should feel bad!

Eh, I think you're going too far in undercutting Da Vinci's scientific work, especially his studies in mechanics and hydraulics.  It's much, much more than a drawing of a batwing and a helicopter, although his more important work is usually the theoretical and observational stuff than the (frequently pie-in-the-sky)…

If the show dealt with Da Vinci traveling to hell, beating up the devil, and having sex with his pupil Salai while struggling with Italian society's stances on homosexuality during the Renaissance… Now that would be a show I'd watch.

Hey, they just haven't yet met the right woman.  I mean 'mate'.

Is it wrong that, after all these years of not moving*, I find the characters in Dinosaur Comics some of the most memorable, well-rounded, and interesting in comics?

Check out the very first line of the episode review:

Nothing to add.  "Five Characters" is one of the best, strangest, and most memorable episodes of the series.  And even though (I think?) we can assume a happy ending once the toys are adopted, the actual tone is so hopeless at the end that it leaves me depressed every time.  Great television!

I think we're talking past each other:  I'm criticizing the "or" that begins the second phrase.  If it's an inevitability (and it is), there's no "or" there that makes sense.

Also "You kill or you die.  Or you die and you kill." makes no sense.  It's more like "You kill, or you die and you kill."  That second "or" is wrong.

I really appreciate what this episode was trying to do -in theory-, but I don't think they pulled it off. On paper the fakeout and faux-climax looks like a fun way to screw with audiences, especially since it ties neatly to the season's arc about whether Rick and the Governor are the same kind of person (i.e. whether,…

"The Jungle" is offensively stupid, but what makes it work is the production design.  After that embarrassing music cue with the camera swoop to the tooth, there's literally no other music in the episode until the lion leaps at the camera.  It creates a memorably empty, lonely city - which looks great in its post…

I had the same reaction when he sees the shadow rapidly moving behind him.

I dunno… the novel seems very much a book about writing, and language, and form.  It doesn't seem well-suited to film (not 'unfilmable', whatever that means, but beside the point.)

I'm from further down the road than that, heh.

And fellow New Orleanians complain about this a lot: we have more than one distinct local accent, and none of them are Cajun and very few are Southern drawl-y.  But even though accents are flattening out in the mass media environment, there's still a strong distinction between accents - and these distinctions carry…

If it makes you feel better, Southland won a Peabody today.  So GLAAD looks like small peas by comparison.

I agree: I kinda enjoyed this.  Wouldn't watch more than one episode, though. It's cute but limited.