Great images and (sometimes) characters, but I have a hard time forgiving him for Brothers Grimm, which had such potential for a good story, but which he totally—and badly— Gilliamed up. It wouldn't be so awful if he hadn't basically admitted to doing it for the money.

I guess I'll be the one who sticks up for Bombadil. Long journey narratives need digressions, and I think Middle Earth is a bigger, richer place for having things that don't seem to fit. Bombadil is also part of the slow introduction to danger and slow withdrawal of support that is necessary to the hobbits' growth.

Joyce was the first time I realized that even faculty can hate the canon. When I joked about writing a senior thesis entitled "James Joyce Was a Very Bad Man," I was astonished at how seriously (even warmly) the idea was received by some people. I think the only other canonical writer that gets as much faculty…

I liked the first few seasons just fine, though Kryten made it a better show. Season 6 was ok with some good bits, but 7 was rocky at best, and 8 was mostly pretty awful. The show has always had a problem with avoiding repetition and maintaining continuity. You'd think those flaws would be almost mutually exclusive,…

I worked my way through Stephenson starting with Zodiac, and I loved Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, and I was getting into the Baroque Cycle, but I stalled in The Confusion. I want to go back and finish it sometime, but I fear it's been so long now that I'm going to have to go back to the start with Quicksilver. That…

Well, they got him drunk first.

It doesn't take all that much to beat out Brothers Grimm.

Brian Cranston, you make me wish I had three hands.

Robin Williams played the King of the Moon in Munchausen.

Actually, I said he was a hero.
But, other than that, I agree with you, Leto II
(spoiler) And, yeah, he was definitely out to commit suicide by cop.

Well, I suppose I did compare him to a hero.

Falling Down is basically an adaptation of Odyssey.

Marplethorpe, you better not be doling out false hope.

This is going to suck and everything, but
I DID enjoy Young Sherlock Holmes as a kid.

I'll have you know that I have a very tiny apartment, and my parents hardly every have to send me rent money anymore.

Thor
I haven't seen a whole lot of talk yet about this one, but I always found Thor's origin story confusing. Sometimes he's like an alternate personality, but he really is a god, and he switches bodies occasionally (sometimes into a dead guy). He kind of had a romance going with a mortal woman, but I think she ended…

Little Cowshit Hut on the Prairie lacks something as a title.

@idiotking

*hard

@HarbingerOfDuh
It's not just that the only apostate is a girl more interested in womanhood than faith - it's precisely what you and others pointed out, that girls are the most important characters (after Aslan) in the series, SO LONG as they adhere to strict gender roles. This argument gets tossed at Tolkien a lot…