Nope, you missed it.
It's about the catharsis of violence in film. The key moment of the movie is when we go from watching nazis watch Goebbel's movie, which consists entirely of anonymous Americans getting massacred, to watching anonymous Germans get massacred, shot from above by the basterds. Yes, the death of nazis…

Wait?
Hosea won? Seriously, what the fuck? Are you sure?

Mole
Is insanely hard to make. I mean, the base is bitter chocolate, a substance that is inherently unpleasant on meat. Making that so good it makes three professional critics go mmmmmm shows incredible skill.

Nah, two fingers is a step less rude than one finger in England.

He did finish second. And he should have won.

I too, really enjoy reading Todd's writing about this series. It's a joy.

Halle Berry
In Swordfish does NOT deserve to make that list.

There's a ytmnd in there somewhere, I think.

Fergilicious means "often pees her pants in public?"

Is "a vague disclaimer is nobody's friend" a quote? As in, a quote from something other than Buffy. It always sounded like one to me, but I don't recognize it.

I like everything about IWRY except Angel's reasons. Frankly, it seems self-aggrandizing in a way that made me like him less.

The thing I like most about Joss' willingness to kill is not the deaths, it's that it adds a real sense of danger to all the times the characters don't die. His shows don't have the same "of course everyone is going to survive this" that most shows do.

Tom Waits, I really appreciate your diligence in varying your spoiler tags in a creative fashion.

It was a real vindication for those of us who insisted Willow was the best character from the beginning that she turned out to be by far the best character.

Good points all, Cyrus, but doesn't excuse the fact that the show repeatedly jokes about how he can't have sex.

It's like a jungle sometimes. It makes me wonder

I always liked Kate. But then I'm undiscriminating. I like it all. Even Beer Bad.

It reads fine as "can be pretend."

I was really surprised it turned into that. When I first watched Buffy, and Angel changed, I thought the point wasn't that he made a happy with Mr. Happy, it was that it was fucking true love and they had a moment of pure happiness. When it changed to just him not being able to have a shag, that cheapened it for me.

I'm sorry, Steve Austin, I can't marry you. I'm mad at you right now.