I remember my dad doing a similar thing a few times - letting me skip school to go to Indians day games and even the 1995 team parade. (Yes, we had a parade for a team that didn't win the championship. If we had to wait for one, we'd be waiting another 50 years.)

I'll admit I don't know the ins and outs of the comics universe, but does anyone have a better idea for who should have been the choice?

I'll admit I don't know the ins and outs of the comics universe, but does anyone have a better idea for who should have been the choice?

This is one of the main things that prevents me from being serious about comics. (I know a decent amount about a lot of the characters, but that's mostly through video games and other ancillary mediums.)

I agree that the reboot probably wouldn't have been good, despite the inclusion of Walton Goggins.

The first WS team had a loaded lineup: they batted Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez 6th and 7th.

As an ex-frat bro who doesn't know any other bros who watch this show, I would prefer that this not get blamed on us. We're already at fault for Entourage and Californication.

This comment showed up in my Facebook feed the other day:

Looking at Wikipedia, three of their last four movies made around $100 million*, and their budgets are usually around $40 million. It seems like they're just a solid bet, even if they're not going to hit a home run. This movie was apparently made for "only" $30 million, so it'll probably make some money in the long…

I think the idea that Omar was supposed to die in the first season is a misconception, as everywhere I've seen Simon talk about it, he says the plan was always to have Omar survive:

I haven't read The Big Nowhere, but I got close to the end of my re-read of American Tabloid this weekend, and I noticed how Ellroy's works share a lot of similar plotlines and character types (which is sort of a given, since his books stay within the same genre and time frame). Though, like you say, he's usually able…

One of the few times my username would seem like more than a lame attempt to be cool, and my thunder is stolen by @avclub-e57f718840a576abbb40a7d046c4e3b0:disqus. I did not see that one coming!

You mean the home console games, right? Turtles in Time for SNES was the only game my brother and I could play together without it turning into a full-out brawl.

I don't think I'll ever understand that either. I get not liking it as much as the other seasons, but the ease with which it gets pushed aside bugs me.

"Feminazis" has 4 syllables - it's too big a word for anyone who actually owns an Affliction t-shirt.

@avclub-178874fad561e353c21ccdafe08915ca:disqus You're right, but the shot of the GWB is brief and not everyone knows NYC geography. I think Spike Lee even says in the commentary that it's not supposed to be ambiguous, but that it's accidentally so.

I actually don't mind the pirate sequence either, but I agree about everything after that (or at least after you get on the plane). I was really enjoying the game, and then it just kind of devolves into a bunch of "moments" that, for various reasons, don't work together.

Jack Bauer.

@avclub-87caf7c42aedbada42572e2374eed08d:disqus While I agree that most critics focus on the "OMGs" of the story, I think the nature of games themselves have a lot to do with that.

That movie came out when I was a freshman in high school, and my science teacher offered extra credit to anyone who saw it and wrote a paper on how accurate the movie's science was. A friend and I decided to write the piece as though the movie was 100% realistic - "I'm sure that we could just dig right into the core…