It's pretty flexible. I'm a neurotic completionist and I think I put 50 or 60 hours into my first playthrough (and maybe another 20-30 on the new game+, pretty sure I've done everything now), but the core quests are actually pretty short. I imagine you could blaze through the whole thing in about 10-15 if you really…

What nobody seems to have mentioned is that the MFM doesn't need either M to be interested in having sex with each other — it's right there in the name, there's an F between them! Make it all about her and you've got nothing to worry about, guys.

I'm not super clear on the difference. But I think we could make a distinction between Sherlock's technical expertise at deducing others' motives, and his intuitive sense of how they're feeling and why?

My partner and I were discussing that last night. It'd be the expected move, really, since Mycroft is the only likely male candidate already in the cast to fill the role. And it would definitely fill out the backstory a little bit by providing a more concrete reason for Sherlock to have come to her attention.

Yeah, it's definitely a failing of the character/genre, in my opinion. Very simplistic view of intelligence, where if you're good at one thing you're good at everything (the Downey Sherlock, which I by and large enjoy anyhow, is particularly ridiculous in this regard). But I think Elementary's been pretty good about…

The thing I get from Elementary's Mycroft (time will tell if I'm right of course) is that he probably *is* every bit as clever as Sherlock, he just enjoys his pleasures and lacks his brother's antisocial peculiarities. He's comfortable in his own skin. So rather than live a weird marginal life in a foreign country, he…

Oh, I don't disagree, though I (obviously?) can't speak for Kurosawa. But I can see how if he set out to make a movie about the doctor and ended up making a yakuza film he might decide to give his original idea another go.

A tidbit I picked up somewhere: that scene is a strong callback to this film's predecessor, Drunken Angel, which is also a story about the redemption of a dissolute older man played by Kimura and which, tellingly, features a swamp that the protagonist is trying to have cleaned up and turned into a playground. Drunken…

My sense is that they've probably flirted online or by text and she was looking for someone to tell her not to go further. But Dan wouldn't quite oblige, the scallywag.

Wait, we castrate people for having bad ideas now?

Me too! It was pretty exciting.

You joke, I think, but yes, most likely. Film and stage work in Japan, at least, is really easy to find for generic looking white guys. Pays pretty okay, too.

Me, I worry about implicitly authorizing or endorsing this stuff. There seems like a world of difference between somebody watching porn or talking dirty about something completely awful and illegal (rape/incest fantasies, whatever) and supposedly having an interaction with real people who are actually doing it. The…

@avclub-8f1899cdb606a3c7a0aa80d617eb123b:disqus Yeah, what he said. Watchmen is about how totally insane the whole costumed vigilante thing is, both on its face and especially taken to its logical conclusion, and about how violence breeds meaningless sickening violence, escalating basically endlessly. Watchmen by Zack…

I think some other commenters have touched on this, but… your sense of attractiveness is subjective. Like, it's obviously related to what we as a society generally appreciate, and it sounds like your 'type' might be a pretty conventional one, but the physical characteristics that work for you and the ones that are…

I'm going to see it, but offset the damage by donating twice the ticket price to a local charity that provides temporary housing and employment and social support to LGBT kids. Was a friend's suggestion, seems like a fair balance, definitely better than the other option of just stealing it.

I kinda wish they'd spent just a bit more time with him earlier. He's a favourite of mine from the books (I mean, he's loathsome, but I love him), and it seems like taking a few seconds here and there in seasons 1-2 to make it clear that Robb's lieutenant#3 is a bit of a weird creep would be bearing fruit now that's…

@avclub-bd4918705794f8404db19a92c998b98a:disqus It's from WoT. Robert Jordan seems to have realized abruptly somewhere around book 8 that his all-female, vaguely misandrist, extraordinarily long-lived order of wizards might occasionally have sex with each other, and for a book or two every single Aes Sedai has had…

@avclub-b5dd44e859fddd824255601f057fee36:disqus Hm. Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy is the one that I feel really stands out as superior. Don't think it's especially suited to film or TV adaptation, though of course I'd love to see somebody try. The series that follow it are also worth the time.

I'm going to weigh in pro-show. I've read the books — hell, I've been reading them for about half my life — and they're good, but they're hardly the be-all of modern fantasy, or even of modern dark, low- to mid-magic epic fantasy. It's a busy genre and there's lots of competition and while Martin's books are surely…