@avclub-94e005c18b383d12a8924d5d1367610d:disqus But even if it's not a moral problem from Katniss's perspective, that still should be pretty troubling for the reader, yes? That the "practical" solution for Katniss is to decide that the other tributes' lives are less valuable than her family's? While that may be an…

Nice! Unfortunately, none of the Tasha Robinson articles have used "gimcrack" yet, so I'm kind of stuck. At least my "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" free space is filled.

@avclub-0f0d67e214f9fef69b278e3d08114da9:disqus Exactly. This is exactly why Breaking Bad is so awesome, and why Suzanne Collins's attempts to deal in ambiguity and dystopian despair have all the authenticity of a little kid dressing up as her parents.

You're right about that aspect of Collins's writing, but her ability to write characters is extremely limited. Just really, really awful. You could tell she was going for an unreliable-narrator thing with Katniss, but it was so amateurishly done that any halfway intelligent reader could see right through it. Instead…

That's true, but such an assertion really only highlights how abysmal Dragon Tattoo is. Make no mistake, Suzanne Collins is a pretty bad writer. She's like a very, very poor man's J.K. Rowling.

@avclub-a8cf86b7e95be74b1204e22a9aab9cd0:disqus You pretty much have it. *MILD SPOILERS AHEAD* Katniss mostly kills by proxy, setting a chain of events in motion that eventually results in another's death). The only time she actually gets her hands dirty is close to the end, but Suzanne Collins once again neuters any…

Yeah, doesn't the very concept of this show go against everything they were trying to do with BSG? They spent most of the series building the idea that humans were just as morally culpable as the Cylons for all the conflict. I'm not sure how we're supposed to go back to seeing Cylons as evil robots whose extermination…

I'll add a fourth:

@bampote:disqus Oh yeah, I'm with you on that, at least. And I realize that Koski wasn't trying to make a serious, nuanced political point with her choice of words. I just get riled up when people think that being on the right side of an argument gives them license to demonize the opposition. It's one of my pet peeves.

Yeah, but "hate-mongering"? That's a pretty ridiculous characterization, especially considering that the provided link contains the following quotation from the Chik-Fil-A guy:

I've said "Zaat!" in better towns than this …

@avclub-64f720c4d4ffcf7df8535870aea4478d:disqus I haven't seen Othello, so I can't comment there. I just think Heston was a poor casting choice, the only false note in an otherwise brilliant film. If they had to Latino-fy a white actor, there had to have been better alternatives.

It's probably the same planet where all those cool Canadian girlfriends you'll never get to meet come from.

Let me show you where my tongue lives!

Nah, I'm with @avclub-96dc606adf1ca040f2f39292976dd546:disqus—The Trial is awesome. At least it doesn't slather Charlton Heston in spray-tan and try to pass him off as Mexican.

No, the thing that actually sticks out like a sore thumb is the Sandman arc. His entire plotline feels like a completely different movie awkwardly welded into the Venom/Hobgoblin movie. And the ending, where he just turns into a cloud of sand and floats away, felt like the screenwriters just threw their hands up and…

Nicolas Cage looks embarrassed that the store clerk caught him talking to that mannequin.

I'm going with coffee grounds and sugar glaze.

Who are three guys who made an absolutely laughable film together?

"There's another, I think better way to watch a movie. And that's as an
allegory. An intentional construct, artificially (and hopefully
artistically) created by other human beings IN ORDER TO MAKE A POINT."