I agree that female sexuality is a big factor in the book, I'm just saying that the book also makes clear that neither Tommy or Billy make decisions because they're in thrall to a girl or sex. It's not that much of a power. Tommy ultimately takes Carrie to the prom for his own reasons and Billy is dismissive of Chris…

I thought she just thought she was pregnant? Was her bleeding at the end (in the book anyway) a miscarriage? I never thought about it but it always seemed like too much blood for her period.

I don’t think that’s entirely accurate. In the movie Tommy
agrees to it reluctantly because of Sue, and is sweet and charming to Carrie at
the prom. He doesn't have to be in love with her to do that. He can just find
her sweet and like her in that moment. In the book Tommy actually has much more
ownership of the decision.…

I think she's 17 in the book. She's not graduating early and she's not taking AP classes.

Yes, it's very off. That's the point. Carrie's mother wouldn't ever allow her to watch those films, never spoke to her about it (since if she didn't sin she would never get her period) and she has no friends to tell her. Whether or not you can believe that she'd have to know it somehow, it's presented as something…

How did DePalma's version deviate from the book so much that you're glad to see in this one, exactly?

But this also goes back to another thing we see on the show, which is that people can look wildly different at that age. If Kim Kelly was hooking up with Barry she could potentially look older than he is. The guy who plays Neal is older than Neal is. Physically one could think there was a bigger age difference between…

Yeah, I thought they were good about sticking in a few signs that Barry had his own life going on in college that probably had just as many challenges and confusion as the kids were dealing with in high school, only at a different stage of development. Doesn't he also sort of brush off questions about his love life?

@avclub-da518aecddbf5c94588f53562012c452:disqus I agree, she doesn't think hooking up with Barry is important. It's just a nice evening. The most important thing about Barry is that he gives her a vision from the other side of high school where you can start over.

@avclub-5fd14fc7a83b79e976652d8c4abecc78:disqus Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if Ted works himself to some gesture and realizes it's pointless. Ted's issue with Robin is he's terrified that she's "the one" that he's "supposed" to have despite all the ways they don't fit. Hopefully the thing about the mother is she's…

I got the exact opposite impression. Practically every frame of the show seemed to reinforce the equalists's point, starting with Korra shutting the first one she met up by bending him into submission. Wasn't chi-blocking even outlawed? Then when she lost her bending for five minutes it was the worst thing in the…

I do think that the reason Unalaq finds it so easy to convince Korra isn't necessarily "Because I said so," but rather that he occasionally acknowledges and defers to her status and appears to trust in her ability to figure things out. "Only the Avatar can open this portal/stop this war," etc. That's something her…

I also couldn't figure out why the deputy Marshall went to see Deb at work so he could essentially warn her to move Hannah. Why ask Deb about why Hannah went to the ER and left her name and address? Why didn't he just go to Deb's address? The nurse gave them a huge tip about who was hiding this woman (albeit after for…

In general, I would expect them to listen to Dexter and Deb. But Saxon's got a lot of info on them that Metro would be stupid to just cover up given their history with Doakes. Plus ultimately it wouldn't just come down to Dexter's friends being the ones to decide. The guy would be able to defend himself and tell…

It was nice that Dexter got to have one more stupid whim that leaves other people bleeding when his new plan for Saxon leaves two people wounded.

I wouldn't say he was emotionally abusive. It's not like he insulted her or was mean to her. It just had that creepy 1950s vibe where Ricky was the authority figure and Lucy was the child because he was the husband and she was the wife. There was one ep where his temper was scary, but to be fair she had done something…

Yeah, I remember getting the impression that he wasn't revealing the reason he bullied them, he was just examining his feelings towards Bill for the first time because he was in there facing him in a coma and wondering himself how they got there. Part of what he thought about them was that he did have some memories of…

@avclub-6d0cbc987f0ee695ca4e8d07ecde8d7a:disqus  But Healy never tried to change anything that mattered. He wanted Piper to help him make things easier for himself and approved of her because she wasn't "one of them"—i.e., a lesbian. Now that she "betrayed" him by being a lesbian, and even worse threw it in his face…

Piper is in no way the innocent victim of Alex (and her going to prison this way was based on a true story so some people don't take chances on a trial, I guess). Piper was a willing participant in the drug business because she was a rich girl who wanted to be special and dangerous. Nobody in her family has any…

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