"Why are we necessarily supposed to assume that they're somehow better
for each other now that they're older? Robin's had enough of her career
and traveling the world? She's comfortable with the prospect of step
kids and suburban Long Island now?"

She wasn't waiting, she was out there living the life she'd always wanted to have. The idea that she has to exist in some sort of romantic context is more insulting than anything the show did with the character.

Alternatively, if we'd just met the mother in the last episode, it also would have worked- we'd still be more invested in the relationship between Ted and Robin than this person who just comes on the stage at the very end, so we'd be glad at the show's end that Robin and Ted finally get together.

Probably better than the odds that "The One" grew up in a completely different social context from you, speaking a different language, with a different cultural understanding of the role of marriage. In fact, given the number of things in a successful marriage that rely on a shared understanding of socio-cultural…

Yeah, I dunno about a Mohd-heavy system… I don't have a problem with the guy like some people seem to, but I really think one of him is enough.

Happy Hanukkah.

Tom Kenny (aka Spongebob Squarepants, aka Ice King) voiced King Jellybean.

I'm taking those speed pills of yours, and I'm wearing your vibrating heat beads, and by riding your snake not only have I shed sixty-five pounds in four days, but guess what? I found out I'm the Devil! And I will wash over the earth, and the seas will run red with the blood of all its sinners! I AM REBORN! AND I'VE…

I don't really want to search through the whole comments section in the Destiny review- did Gordon Freeman come up as an example of how to do a blank-slate character right? That's always what I felt like Halo was trying to go for- learn about your character by the way other people react to him, and get you to really…

The problem is that Denver's offense is almost too good (and definitely too streaky) to be exciting. Either they score a touchdown in about two minutes on a series of uncontested 15-yard passes, or they immediately go 3-and-out and punt. It's not an offense built for drives.

The people in the saloon, bartenders aside, aren't unarmed, though. They empty an arsenal's worth of bullets at Munny and don't hit him once, which I think supports your point about him being more lucky than particularly skilled. I think that final gunfight is set up by the conversation in this scene, though- everyone…

Better than her saying "uuuunnnnnnnnggghhhh" after the punchline of every scene.

Are you thinking of the "I've killed women and children and every thing that walks or crawls" mini-monologue? Because that comes earlier in the scene. Eastwood's only response to the line I wrote is "Deserve's got nothing to do with it," which I think is probably the perfect line for this film.

The best part of the final scene is when Little Bill turns back into the fallible, in-over-his-head lawman you get at the beginning of the movie. "I don't deserve this… to die like this… I was building a house."

That anecdote about using his high school principal's name when he was writing softcore porn stories is great. What a wonderful instance of petty revenge.

I JUST found out that Sims 2 had become for a week at the end of July, and I am so pissed off that I missed it. I resisted getting 3 because I really liked how 2 let you sort of play as the whole neighborhood, switching houses whenever one family started aging faster than all the others.

Didn't Fox already make a series about the Devil with Ray Wise?

That sentence honestly didn't scan as sarcasm to me. I'm guessing Modell's never seen The Bourne Legacy and just assumed Renner was plugged into the role, rather than the more far-fetched notion that the movie deals with the legacy of the super-soldier program that created Jason Bourne.

As the lone boy in a four-child family, I've definitely been roped into watching this a few times. It always felt to me like the honestly-observed family dynamics and smaller interactions tend to grate against the interactions used for plot devices (there's "cheerfully oblivious" and then there's "airing the family…

There's no place to hi-ide
Ned Stark, step insi-ide
The room, Baelor's tomb,
Prepare for the boom
Bam, aw, man,
Arya saw it all,
how they cut off the King's Hand