Just saw them this past week. One of the best concerts I've seen. The visual component was unexpected (for me, at least) and fantastic. Go see them!

Actually, nope. Teenage girls are some of the most dominant voices in fandom culture because of that loyalty. Furthermore, that loyalty doesn't extend to defense of the show—tons of girls watched Glee, Teen Wolf, Merlin, etc. as long as it's on the air, but criticized the shit out of it.

Because Seinfeld was one of the least serialized shows ever made, down to its fundamental elements, and a shitty finale means nothing because every episode stands on its own. But Lost, which was a fundamentally serialized story, had a shitty finale that made many people realize the narrative they thought they were…

Hannibal isn't going for realism, but a kind of psychological surrealism. I can understand how those are flaws from your point of view, but they're purposeful details that have aesthetic significance, rather than being someone's mistaken idea of reality.

As @avclub-9f48597b8abf893bd6e44327c7f0e5d9:disqus implied above, "reality TV" refers to unscripted television, as in, it has real rather than fictional people.

@avclub-9df769dcd39a93c63a340c5713fc277e:disqus I do enjoy Anne Bronte! She has her head on straight.

Many of the MFA programs work the way PhD's do, ie, they pay for your tuition and give you a salary for low level teaching jobs.

Yes, it does change the point. Wiping out the race is seen as the worst possible crime that humanity could commit, one that haunts Ender for the rest of his life, especially because the alien race knew he was going to kill them and created the physical version of the Giant's Drink as a way to communicate their…

While I enjoy Jane Eyre, I feel like the character is the best part of the novel, and the plot gets more absurd every time I read it. This says more about me than the novel, probably—I have a hard time with Gothic novels, and the whole wife-in-the-attic thing seems like a construction to create tension between Jane…

Well, tastes differ, but while I enjoy those authors, I've never read any sentences by any of those authors that have the technical depth of meaning as some of Austen's sentences. She manages to imbue these seemingly meaningless or superficial descriptions with a rich, constructive irony (not destructive sarcasm or…

Yes! I also feel like the way she writes her moral struggles is universally relevant, especially today. Also, one of my favorite things about Emma is the way Austen buries the Frank/Jane romance so that the reader gets to evaluate the morality of their actions (particularly his) without getting swayed by their…

They might not reach the level of social commentary of Dickens, but they blow basically every other English novel out of the water when it comes to moral commentary. Austen was first and foremost a moral ironist, and it seems obvious from Mansfield Park and Emma that she took the moral lives of her characters more…

Technology is increasing exponentially.

Yes, I have read the Poetics. And you know what I'm never going to get from the Newsroom? Effective catharsis. Because the strings of the puppeteer are more engaging than the show itself. That's literally the entirety of my criticism of the show, and if you read the majority of negative criticism of the Newsroom,…

When you can feel the art attempting to manipulate you into feeling something rather than moving you, it's not succeeding at art. That's Todd's point about the African kid. The strings that are moving the plot are so obvious that that's what some viewers, myself included, start paying attention to, rather than the…

Come on, y'all:

ATLA is on Netflix in its entirety. LOK isn't on there yet.

Of course it's a thing. Not sure what world you're living in, but in the world I'm living in, our media talk about what a shame it is that rapists will have their lives ruined by a single action, rather than what a shame it is a survivor will have to live with their rape for the rest of their life.

That's basically our whole culture.

The lyrics call women animals and talk about domesticating them. While the women are holding sheep. I mean, it's so on the nose that it's not even subtext.