I'm probably asking for too much out of this story, but I was disappointed that it wasn't dark enough. Katniss' morals were unimpeached throughout the whole thing and it made her nothing but a victim. She never had to explore anything she actually did, just what people were doing to her. Her one great act of heroism…

@avclub-ce11a6d53c3c8c10c196e2114a8d5149:disqus SPOILER ADDENDUM: I actually kind of liked the twist ending, though I agree the Prim death was pandering. I liked how Katniss chose to kill the target that threatened the future rather than the one that destroyed the past, but it felt kind of deflated when 1) she had…

It certainly didn't help that anyone even loosely familiar with tropes knew, from the very introduction of the despotic central regime, that said despotic central regime would be toppled by the hero eventually. Taking so long to introduce the rebellion renders much of the initial conflict superfluous. It also didn't…

He was weeping while he was telling off Skyler on the phone. He wanted the police (who he had to assume were listening) to have evidence that Skyler was coerced. He had to break her off with finality so she could stay safe while he got away. Walt is not fundamentally bad, just too dominated by his pride. He has made…

This weekend there were reruns of Malcolm in the Middle on, and it was the first time I'd seen it since starting Breaking Bad. It was jarring. Just ricin her shit, Walt!

You can also suss out the time lapse by Walt's hair growth in the flash-forward. His beard and head hair are the same length, meaning he hasn't groomed himself at all since he bugged out. And I'd say it's about two or three months' growth.

O'Neal moves to the parapet of Newswire Tower and raises his hands. Immediately a hush falls over the rabble. Stray reviews, unattended by their captors, escape over the firewalls to freedom. A Tolerability Index looks up from corpses of The Hater podcast, tears silently streaming down her soot-stained face. Soon, the…

@Pgoodso:disqus Right. It's not a science per se, but you do need to recall and filter a complex series of intangibles to fabricate the response that is called for. The actor isn't literally doing math, or even maintaining an inner dialogue, but the intellectual rigor required is far from negligible.

*The Dissolve bars their gates*

Did you see what they did to the pool? They flipped the bitch!

MY WOLF EYES MY WOLF EYES ARE TRAPPED IN THERE MY GOD

Change! RIOT!

Dads

*Al Michaels chuckles, fearing for his life*

*McNabb puts up greatest numbers in Eagles history, is reviled in Philly as a loser*

Those people pre-grade movies on director, cast, and a press synopsis. Then they watch the movie just to have details for the review. It makes them very predicable. Let me guess, somewhere around 2/5 stars?

I swear to god, in Philly around 2003 all you could hear on Y100 was shit like Puddle of Mudd, Papa Roach, and Staind. Everything else was rap or club garbage. We have a strong classic rock station on 102.9 but that's like actual classic rock from the 60's and 70's. Right now Kravitz occasionally appears on the grab…

They're definite I Heart Radio chaff. I don't think anyone actually enjoys RHCP, but I guess we're supposed to take some sort of academic interest in them. They're revered among corporate DJs as a rock institution, but no one can explain exactly why anymore. That, or their label has dump trucks of money delivered to…

Oh thank god. I thought I was the only one who knew the Red Hot Chili Peppers were the most overrated band of all time. Apparently there's a niche market for white rapping about Los Angeles?

I guess I'm super white, but all rap sounds the same to me.