@avclub-ffc905126015cdc6758873970fb59828:disqus I sense another prep schooler.  Yes, my experience was that it's MUCH easier to get into the top Ivies from public school.  These days the Ivies put a firm cap on the number of kids they accept from each prep school, usually around 20.  15, after you account for the…

Yes, Rory can be too much of a perfect, golden child.  As long as we're disclosing weird GG obsessions, it always grated on me how tight she and Paris got at Yale.  It makes her seem irrationally, superhumanly nice, given all the shit Paris pulled at Chilton/continued to pull at Yale.  I get it, Paris is socially…

Those first few episodes make the Independence Inn seem pretty unpleasant/badly run.  Between Drella and Michel, there's too many staffers yelling at the guests.  Thank god they got rid of Drella and toned Michel down a bit.

1.  Digger 4EVA!
2.  I agree that Max is incredibly bland, and more of a TV romantic lead than an actual human being.  Especially the way he reacts when Lorelai treats him terribly- with kind of a "well, it's ok with me!" shrug.

Yeah, as someone who went to a Chilton-esque prep school, I always giggle a bit at Gilmore Girls's idea of private schools.  WASP-y prep schools do not have uniforms- dress codes that require you to wear a blazer and tie, maybe, but never a uniform.

Jimmy makes Leo seem like a dreamboat.

How would this law distinguish between trolls filing ridiculous, baseless lawsuits and people with legitimate patent claims?  If it's as simplistic as "you lost your patent case, now you owe legal fees", then couldn't that shut down a lot of genuine patent holders who can't compete with a giant corporate legal…

I'm with @avclub-1bf6967de9dde6cd60f8f894bf309d3f:disqus - this season's Untuckeds have been great!  If nothing else, you have to watch the one from the 2nd episode, where the queens cackle for 5 minutes straight at Serena Cha Cha.  Oooh- and the 1st Untucked, which has Ru's fake Masterpiece intro (complete with "I'm…

Even umbrellas can't help you in #MonsoonSeason.

I'm surprised at all the Alyssa love- I was kinda hoping she'd sashay last night.  Though I can't separate out how much I don't like her specifically vs. Ongoing Boring Alyssa v. Coco Dramz.  Maybe she'll grow on me if she and Coco really do stop talking about pageant boringness.

I read it more as an extension of his obsession- he takes things so far that he ends up doing honest-to-god actual magic to beat Borden.

@avclub-9024f9f0a80d2d248c7c6efb2e715c37:disqus  I read it that the machine creates an exact duplicate- same memories, same experiences, no way to distinguish "real" Angier from "clone" Angier.  So he's both men, every night- he's the man taking the bow and the man drowning.  He literally kills himself at every…

@avclub-ea5d7ec524a9fdeab5026aa304dd21fc:disqus YES.  And as someone on this site pointed out (the reviewer? one of the commenters?), the first time you watch the movie, it's an Angier trick- all slick showmanship.  The second time you watch it, it's a Borden trick- you see all the effort and craft.  One of my…

Yes, exactly.  And the cloning machine fits with the themes of the movie because Angier is so obsessed with beating Borden that he literally breaks the laws of nature.  The power of his obsession is enough to make the impossible possible.  I love it that the movie puts the cloning machine out in the open and hides the…

Naw, The Illusionist was not that great.  I think three months of Edward Norton Talking Seriously About Acting to promote this movie made people think there was more to it than there was.

No doubt he would have fallen for it.  His total idiocy really is amazing- for the first couple hundred pages, I though that Foreman was exaggerating, or that she had some bizarre axe to grind with McClellan, but nope.  And then that dude has the balls to run against Lincoln in 1864, blaming Lincoln for not ending…

Eigeman on Malcolm in the Middle was absolute genius.  It's very hard to top his speech to the Krelboynes after they get bullied and pantsed:

People don't like Digger?!?!  Wow- that's what I get for watching this show without consulting the Internet, I guess.

It irritates me to no end when people talk about how they chose their neighborhood because it's so "authentic", not realizing that them moving there MAKES IT LESS "AUTHENTIC".  Like my white lawyer friend moving to Harlem because it's "not as soulless as the rest of NYC".  So it sounds like this is the movie to watch…

I always love his stripped down, acoustic versions better.  I'm seeing him in concert this spring and I'm a little nervous to see how many musicians will be up on stage with him.