Eh, I've never seen him as a parody of the fandom. A parody of plot conventions sometimes, but he seems more of a gentle way for the writers to break the fourth wall and drop exposition. I admit, I'm not much of a fan of Ronaldo. He just seems a bit too much and a bit too flat compared to the other inhabitants of…

You know, I really had to think about this because if Greg or Connie's parents had been the ones to say "You are nothing" to Connie, I'd be livid. When Pearl says it, I'm definitely not happy, but not to the level I'd be for those other characters.
At end of the day, I don't think of the of Crystal Gems as "adult"…

I dunno, I though it was a pretty effective cut to the inferiority complexes both Connie and Pearl struggle with and shows why Connie is so willing to follow Pearl's philosophy when Connie is normally a pretty strong-minded kid. I think being told "you are not nothing" was something both of them needed to hear.

Steven Universe is coming back from a 3-month hiatus. Adventure Time was not on hiatus. A number of Steven Universe fans (like me) appreciate the reminder that new episodes are starting to air today.

Most people are objecting to the fact that this is exploiting a very specific stereotype. If this movie was set in the Tokyo subway most people would be fine with it because we don't stereotype all Japanese commuters as cannibals. It's like making a movie where a roving gang of black men rape only white women and…

I could see Animal Crossing as a cute play area for very young kids. There could be a trolley ride, a nature-trail area where kids spot fake bugs and fish, and a museum where kids dig and assemble fake fossils.

Eh, I can't agree. I stopped watching Sherlock because of how they treated the source material.

I love Steven Universe and its ilk, but I do like that there is kid's media that aims purely to kids as well. Heck, about 75% of the fun of Garbage Pail kids when I was young is that adults wanted nothing to do with them.

As as a person from IL, I've given up on voting for honest candidates. Now I just vote for the person who looks like they'll have the most interesting scandal.

Lapis is super powerful, but she also seems to be really non-confrontational. I think having a character who is completely averse to fighting would add an interesting dimension to the Gems.

Oh man, what an amazing episode of Steven Universe! I had high hopes for this two parter and they were all met. The revel of Ruby and Sapphire and Estelle's song were the highlights of course, but I love SU's attention to little details, like Pearl and Amethyst huddled as close together as possible and Garnet's…

Possibly The Gammage Cup?

I always thought they named it that way since the plot is a mash-up of Patrick O'Brian's 1st book (Master and Commander) and 10th book (Far Side of the World).

Yeah, the Kermit and Piggy dynamic on the early Muppet Show was very strange. Piggy was clearly obsessed with Kermit's attention and could come across as quite psychotic. Kermit, on the other hand, could be quite cruel to Piggy for little reason then his own amusement. They'd also happily throw one other under the…

I wish more game reviewers were able to give an idea of what time period that had to review a game in. A friend of mine's husband reviews games professionally and he's usually given three-five days to get as far as he can. Given that he still has to sleep, eat and take out the dog, that means he's essentially doing…

I made my dad take me to the theater and sit through the entirety of Super Mario Brothers. Bless the man, he watched that whole thing with its bizarre dinosaur people and de-evolving gun and his takeaway was "Oh good, I can discuss the theory of evolution with her on the car ride home. Perfect!"

Sigh, yeah. I'm playing Harvest Moon: A New Beginning for the 3DS right now. It's so terrible! But it might get better! It won't, but it might!

She was pretty awesome! She also: single-handedly killed a nest of snakes that had invested her house (my dad had just learned to crawl and they were swarming inside for the warmth), popped a streaker in the face on the Chicago L, and in twilight years confided to me that "that nice boy on Queer Eye shouldn't settle,…

This makes me miss my Grandmother. She was Catholic, and a big hater of public nativities because she felt it commercialized and cheapened Christ. She used to get a lot of the "I'm so religious, look at me" types because she was small and sweet and always wore a cross and she took the wind out of their sails every…

Shut up, Thomas!