I'm going to start by saying that I deeply empathize—I also have that reaction to a certain kind of SJ crusader.

But Cthulu can't be depicted!

Both yesterday and today, this thread has made me crave whiskey before noon.

It's almost as if words are meaningful in a relationship.

Templeton Rye is a favorite, as well as Basil Hayden's.

It's the shadowed part midway along the southern coast of Essos. It looks like it used to be a peninsula before the Doom, and now it's a bunch of island-ish things. Slaver's Bay is just east of it, and Slaver's Bay is just south of the Dothraki Sea.

Lower on in this thread someone mentioned Film Crit Hulk, a critic who writes under a pseudonym because he is a film insider. Furthermore, criticism isn't inherently negative—you're missing out on all forms of criticism who have no say in whether something is bad or good, but instead simply try to evaluate what's…

I guess it just seems needless to come to a pop culture criticism website and call the men and women who write articles that many of us here both enjoy and find enlightening/engaging (as well as providing a space for people to converse about pop culture, since culture only survives when it's engaged with) "lowly…

I mean, you come to a pop culture criticism website and insult the purpose of the website. Is there any particular reason that you think we shouldn't call you a troll? You're not interested in having a conversation—just insulting the people who make this their job. It's actually a pretty nice comparison—you're the one…

You really think limiting criticism to "this is good or this is bad" is and should be the essence of criticism? I'm serious—why on earth would that be a reasonable limitation?

I don't feel sympathy for him exactly, but I do relate very strongly—I feel like I had very similar fantasies about verbally destroying an ex in a similar way, and god damn if Josh Charles didn't make me relive that just now. When you start to process your grief over a failed relationship, I think it's often that we…

A, absolutely.

Seriously. I watched this maybe a year ago, and a few months later, I had a deeply disturbing moment where I was on Spotify and muted the ads, and the ad paused itself, and I had an intense flashback to this episode (of course, you can press play on the ad, but it's one step closer to this sort of forced attention).

How do you get to show pages without finding a mention of the show? I was looking for the review of last night's The Good Wife (which wasn't listed on the main page or the TV page), and I had to go into "What's On Tonight," click on the show and find the episode there. Searching for "The Good Wife" got me nowhere,…

Well, there's the implication from one of the very first episodes of ATLA that Gyatso probably sucked all the air out of the room/the Firebender's lungs. Which seems in some ways similar to blood bending.

For me, if I'm not into a scene, I write a few notes and start writing something else. It's worked fairly well—I can return and flesh out the notes as I feel more inspired, and while I'm waiting for that inspiration I can write something that I want to.

No, any movie that shows a sex act would be porn. Don't be disingenuous. You're still showing your kids people being murdered, but because for some reason you think that's less horrific than if the dead person's blood had been spilled. Doesn't that seem fundamentally absurd? The horrific thing is that the life was…

I mean…do you not find it disturbing that you're categorizing different kinds of murder instead of murder and not-murder? The murder is the disturbing thing, and what's so horrific about guns is that they make it appallingly easy to take a human life. Is murder better because it's less violent? To me, that's shows the…

After the first season, the studio and its employees were exhausted and needed a break.

Yes, misogyny is a hatred of women, but I think at this point, we're using it as synonymously with a refusal to see women as wholly human beings (since that refusal does a kind of violence to women). If you're not really into that term, we don't have to use it, but I do think people have a prejudice against female…