Yup—novel Arya, Asha, and Brienne are all non-traditionally feminine women who explicitly make their respect for women known (Arya's "the woman's important too!"). And show Arya, Asha, and Brienne all use women/girl/cunt/bitch as slurs against dudes. The woooooorst.

Well…as shitty as tonight's "let's take weird fucked up consensual sex and make it straight up rape" was, Dany and Drogo's sexual relationships past the first night and up until the time where she's on top is not consensual in the least. She talks about being sore and crying throughout, and even crying herself to…

Not plot, exactly, but yes to story—even in King Lear, these are distinct. That scene in Lear accomplishes a whole lot in terms of thematic and character development, which contribute to the larger narrative, even though it doesn't advance the plot. (Also, Shakespeare has such a deft hand with the many-layered story…

Film Crit Hulk has a great piece on David O Russel that really gets to me what was outright bad about American Hustle: a large number of the scenes accomplish close to nothing. They're well-acted and well-shot and the writing is tight and quippy, but what is the purpose of the scene? For instance, that hilarious scene…

I really love Little, Big but I understand your frustration. It is a book that improves upon rereading—when you know what the structure of the book is supposed to look like, it can be easier to enjoy his strange tangents and references and poetic language.

I read that one after Oscar Wao, and I think that was a better experience than This is How You Lose Her alone. Yunior is the narrator of Oscar Wao, and while he touches on some of his own story, his voice complements and informs Oscar's story nicely, so that when I read his stories, I already had a feel for both his…

(I would like to hear your long winded defense of Logan)

They did a decent job, but she's just such a…black hole of an actress. The episode would have been nice foreshadowing if they hadn't had to work around her.

I don't know if you ever watched Buffy, but here's my comparison: so Buffy was a horror film with the cliche female character turned into the heroine. Likewise, Veronica Mars is both an homage to and a subversion of film noir/detective films, with a female high school protagonist. If you can get into that concept and…

Yeah, I get that. I get the movie, I get the point of Pitt's character, I get it all. And in the hands of a better director, I wouldn't leave the film feeling charmed by Pitt's performance rather than disgusted by the myth of American hypermasculinity (because that's the supposed point of the film, rather than…

Yeah, after reading that piece it kind of ruined Fincher's movies for me. What was previously a subconscious nagging feeling of "what is wrong with this movie" became a conscious realization that Fincher's tone problems undercut the "message" of the movie to such an extent that the line between celebration and satire…

I don't want to overanalyze, but this is the best comparison in the world. Sometimes a shot is what you need: quick, bracing, gets the job done, and with ill effects minimized by diminishing memory. But mostly I want martinis (and a good classic one with a 4:1 ratio of gin to vermouth, and maybe a dash of orange…

I've recommended it to so many people that I feel like a parody of a white person. But it's so good!

Yeah, try watching Jiro Dreams of Sushi, after which you'll realize that insult is far less insulting than you think it is.

That makes no sense at all. They are literally synonyms that have no precise meaning. There is no reason for anyone to correct the term psychopath to sociopath—if you ask anyone what the difference is, they'll give you some nuance that they feel is present, but that nuance changes from person to person. And while I…

Oh boy they exist.

Could you point me to any recent edition of the DSM (as in, II through V) that actually uses either of those terms? Because both are used colloquially as synonyms for antisocial personality disorders.

Well, Elementary at least thinks its version of Sherlock is smart enough to understand that there's no discernible difference between a sociopath and a psychopath.

You might find your anti-intellectualism charming, but I really don't.

Nope, it's a diagnosable mental disorder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…
One which is indistinguishable from the colloquial "psychopath," neither of which match in anyway the shoddy sometimes-Asperger's sometimes-amoral characterization of Sherlock.