I think that's a great analysis of the setting choice and makes great sense.

It's more that I'm making sure I don't have to stop anywhere between the train station and home.

Don't forget the Sasquatches.

I will admit to being guilty of this on occassion, but only at red lights that I know the timing of.

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I'm with Caitlin on this one. The aesthetics of this film had way too much 300-DC-house-style for my liking and I also found some story choices to just be bizarre such as the setting - I can only assume they were avoiding the World War II period to comparisons to Captain America? Or is this the traditional starting…

Well, it's not a binary decision. High Fidelity may be a better movie by most metrics but that doesn't mean people have to pick one camp or the other and fight to the death. Also, I have a very strong suspicion that the people who are actually nostalgic for this movie weren't the target audience for this movie when…

OITNB aside, I was marveling at the sheer inanity to network summer television and was positing that it's never been this bad … and then I remembered that I only like Battle of the Network Stars ironically.

Yeah, I was gonna make that joke.

I agree, the vignettes are usually well done and the differing styles in which they are presented makes them very appealing. An anthology series of them would be an interesting watch.

They had serialized television in the 60's.

Then you clearly don't understand that difference between a self-contained episode of television in which one story is told and only one story is told like The Twilight Zone and overarching narrative television in which there is an overall story line in which the various characters' narratives weave together over the…

I dunno, the title of the show is just "AMERICAN GODS" … And you're telling me that you had no idea that Wednesday is named after Odin?

You're not watching an episodic series. If you that's what you want, this isn't for you. It's an overarching story with interstitial. Also, they've pretty well explained who "Limo Boy" is. I think you'd like it better if you were actually patient with the story and paid attention to the details.

It's not. Or rather, it isn't until you get through *ALL* of the book. So what looks like a mess now may well be fully revealed not to be a mess by the end of the series.

I'm pretty sure Wednesday and Mr. World explained why there was a war very succinctly last episode. It's not nearly as nuanced as you'd think.

Yes, but less dramatic. Also, the average viewer doesn't know how long it takes to actually forge a piece of steel. Even if they watch Forged in Fire, they still don't really have any conception.

No, I actually do know just how empty it is. But his condescension isn't the threat. It's his followers and adherents who haven't yet been completely fucked over by him who are the issue. You know, the people who are completely blind to how erratic he is and haven't yet realized that everything he promised was just…

Exactly.

Are you fucking kidding me? What debates did you watch? Jesus fuck, you know what? I'm not going to sit here and re-litigate the campaign with you because that's a fruitless exercise. As for "experienced it all before", it's called reading a history book. You know, so you can know things beyond your personal…