i think it pissed coulson off more that a) he disobeyed may, rightly or wrongly, who is higher on the pecking order, and more importantly still that b) he MISSED. it seemed like a "don't send a boy to do a may's work" lecture.

i don't think he's a sociopath. it's in character for him to suggest the selfish option — particularly when he's already feeling "hunter against the world" vibes for his move on ward motivated by a threat against his girl — but not REALLY endorse it or follow through. his go-to example was plane tickets, not "i once…

name one character to whom that doesn't apply.

it's pretty on point for him to give that advice, i think. i mean, he wouldn't ACTUALLY endorse it, but it's very much something he'd say. if he was in fitz's position, helping someone else at cost to himself, he'd gripe and grumble and do the right thing. but remember — the dude's a mercenary who chose to work for…

saul zentzman.

and thank you for saying so! it really makes me more happy than sad to think about, which is good. but then, i've been basically single for three and a half years since, having found almost nobody i'm drawn to for more than a casual fling, so maybe there's something in that "it was too good and it's ruined me for…

yeah, mileage varies on that one. it doesn't give me a headache (though avatar was an intensely horrible experience for me, for reasons aside from its story and dialogue) but the glasses always go badly over my glasses and don't stay put and are uncomfortable on my nose… it's just an annoyance that isn't worth it for…

being aggressively hit on by gay guys makes me hate straight guys. it happens to me rarely enough not to be a bother, but enough that my heart breaks for what women go through just existing in public.

fuck, my housemate and best friend has been driving me crazy with this lately. we'll talk for HOURS about negotiating ways to make sure we are both happy and communicating well and not stressing each other out — we have very different needs as people — and we'll agree, finally, over and over about what we're going to…

they could have made this clearer.

one of the best ways to sum up my moral stance, too. i think when i first saw angel in my teens i thought that was trite, but i came around.

what @disqus_jeTusCb3OY:disqus said. a relationship that ends isn't necessarily a failed relationship.

laurel is terrible. better than she was, but boy is that bar low. laurel and oliver were terrible together. oliver and felicity careen back and forth between "terrible" and "appealing", but they have the most romantic chemistry when they're NOT actually together, so that one's a mixed bag.

no, i saw it while lounging in the bath on my laptop (which does have a very nice, very big screen, so we're not talking about the back of the seat in front of you on a plane). i would have liked to see that, though being a wearer of glasses, 3D movies are usually a hateful and miserable experience for me.

go back to it. the soundtrack brings me regular delight. the songs and music (randy newman) are appealing and charming on a very earnest level and, though a little dialled down in malice and grossness, appropriately dahl-ish.

ugh, the further away barry and iris are from each other, the more i like both of them. they bring out the worst in each other. his crush on her was always weirdly incestuous and existed for no other reason than the comics mandated it — and she was annoyingly clueless, then pathetically teenagey (and shitty to her…

i'm not sure why the former didn't grab me. the story, i think, just didn't resonate. which is strange, because it's got a lot of elements that should hit home for me — the alienation from family, imagining and wishing for an alternate life, being a weirdo who doesn't fit in with the surroundings; those all describe…

there's a lot that's completely nonsensical about that movie but its tone is so consistent and unique that i can't fault much of it, even the stuff that makes no sense, because that stuff (the shark, the cloud-rhino, etc) is still terrifying and affecting.

it's my personal style. no caps except for initialisms and, sometimes, names of things. sometimes italics, if i can be bothered, but i just never actually took the two minutes it would take to learn how to format in disqus.

i'll watch any henry selick movie. i don't love CORALINE, though it was certainly flavourful, but NIGHTMARE is great and JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH will never fail to warm the cockles. but he's got a distinct style and voice that you don't see elsewhere, and stop motion is one of my favourite filmic mediums.