I just thought its pacing was weird and unfortunate. It would spin its wheels for several episodes at a time on the one-off stories (most of which, sadly, were crap), then suddenly lurch into the-plot-explodes mode and careen through a series of insane twists. It was helped a lot by having a great cast that almost…

I'm learning so much from this thread!

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It's true, I was thinking about the hawk scene the whole time, so in that scene I was pretty much "But isn't he going to…? Yup. Yeah, there he goes."

I just assumed it was on a more mythic scale, so that Dana could be the Virgin type even if she were technically deflowered.

Well, the characters in Cabin aren't Buffy or Angel. They're just supposed to be regular people (who line up with stock horror character types) who found themselves in a ridiculous horror-movie scenario, and right at the end discover that they're supposed to be sacrifices to save the world from eldritch horrors. So…

@avclub-84f9e7d729107289d35152b4262e2b53:disqus Good Lord, I didn't even consider the time difference with Japan, but yeah, the Japanese morning starts right at the American evening, so that would actually work out just fine.

I actually know Power Rangers: Jungle Fury. Several times for a business trip I found myself flying back home from Burbank on a Saturday morning, and for whatever reason it would always work out that I would find myself staring at this show in the airport. It was completely insane and involved enormous amounts of…

I kept thinking she looked like Felicia Day without actually being Felicia Day, which was kind of weird.

I think I liked it more than Attack the Block, but I am gratified as hell that both of them exist.

Oh, then you'll be fine. I actually thought Evil Dead 1 was pretty grody, but that's mostly because the low-budget "gore" was just lots of really ambiguously gross-looking liquids.

@avclub-e3019767b1b23f82883c9850356b71d6:disqus The audience I saw it with was already apparently primed with Whedon fans, as there was a distinct smattering of applause at the Mutant Enemy credit right at the beginning.

That's the evil-looking Steve Blum guy?

But it's a feature-length movie, with live actors! Clearly it's the definitive rendition of the story!

Fair enough. You're right that in Japanese the word "anime" doesn't distinguish between Asian and Western styles. And I'm definitely aware that Japanese manga actually encompasses hundreds of highly individualistic styles — I still sense a vague "Asian" commonality between the look of, say, Inio Asano, Natsume Ono,…

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus Well, then it's probably just a difference in opinion as to when it's appropriate to use the word — whether it's better used to connote a culture of origin or an animation and design style. If some Japanese or Korean studio decided to make a series that looked and behaved a huge amount like a…

Well, when the character designs are pretty much all East-Asian-anime-style, and the animation is all done in Korea (and yeah, I know so is every animated Western TV show), and the show even uses visual cues that only make sense to people familiar with anime (I'm thinking of Episode 2 — no spoilers — where a pulsing…

I think somehow the Hollywood movie slate for 2012 got determined by a wishlist sent in by a kid in 1936 that they found in the back of a drawer somewhere.

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I won an autographed "Daikatana Deathmatch Strategy Guide" as part of a promotion for a multiplayer tournament they were running with MPlayer (some awful gaming matchmaking service). They were about to release the multiplayer demo, and the Ion Storm website ran a contest to have fans write poetry about how awesome…