Travelling jelly-bean salesman.

Why wasn't this article written by the AV Club's salt correspondent, Caitlin PenzeyMoog?

I got very sick of the propagandising in Narnia, and find the Last Battle practically unreadable. But the bit in the Magician's Nephew where the children walk through Charn past the old kings and queens and ring the bell always sticks in my mind as a great piece of writing.

I read and enjoyed them at the time, but I get the plotlines confused with his Alfred series (very 1066 and All That..)

One of the many things I like about the rake scene is Sideshow Bob's apparent belief in his own dignity while it's happening. That classic clown's attitude that he's somehow above the pratfalls and the accidents that keep happening to him is one of the things that makes him such a great character.
To judge from Rabin's…

This seems to be a bit of a trend in criticism. If a fictional character says or does something and isn't immediately punished, the inference appears to be that their actions are approved by the writer / director and connived at by the audience. It's tiresome, to be honest.

I think this article rather neglects the negative effect Buffy (as a result of its success) has had on popular culture. In some ways it took tired old clichés and replaced them with (slightly) newer ones. After Buffy you get a proliferation of heroines who are not exactly brilliantly drawn as personalities but are…

I suspect we might be better on the accent thing with Indians and Pakistanis. Slightly better. Post Goodness Gracious Me, anyway.

"if you take the current political landscape, the English should be the villains"
Sigh. What dribble. You're right that WW1 is complicated, but why insist on a similarly facile reading of current events?

I think TFA is generally a better film, but it's also a pastiche. RO was more ambitious, in its own way.

The first time I read this I assumed "inaugural gig" meant "first live performance by the band". Then I wondered why they'd spent more than three years practising for that moment and what it had to do with Trump…

I don't think the alleged realism of Skins survived the debut of the Inbetweeners (before it became just a gross out comedy). Virtually everyone seemed to agree that that was more like what being a teenager was actually like. Skins just seemed like it was aimed at the cool kids in comparison.

Yeah, script edited, anyway. I've seen an interview with them where they freely admit it was crap. I think they also said most of the original's key themes don't actually translate that well (e.g. owning a car wasn't as common or important), but I may have made that up.

I love that episode - Mac calling people bozos because "it's kinda my new thing" always makes me laugh.

"Fun"? Or rebarbative?
I'm concerned by Brexit and annoyed by Trump too, but I wouldn't describe the sort of petulant histrionics you describe as a "thought experiment".

My favourite bit of coronation trivia is the fact that the Crown Jewels contain a walking stick called St Edward's staff. The purpose of this is completely forgotten, but instead of leaving it at the Tower they bring it along and put it carefully on a table during the ceremony.

That's a fair point - it'll be slim pickings for anyone who really wants to boycott 'liberal Hollywood'

Um. Justified or not, this isn't good business. Republicans buy sneakers too, and they could have let people draw their own conclusions.

It's notable that if Strange has become the new Sorcerer Supreme by the end of the film then that's a situation that would look significantly worse if they'd cast an Asian rather than Tilda Swinton.
Having a white man turn up to be trained by Asians (and Chiwetel Ejiofor) only to become better than they are after a…

I think you've missed my point. Also you slightly broke character in your first paragraph. Boo.