@avclub-3da678392d5ac1ff456fe6e06354fdef:disqus Philosophically I don't take any issue with your response, but the legal system is going to have to deal with this stuff - likely on a case-by-case basis at first, but eventually at the legislative level. What may be a perfectly sane and sound philosophical answer may…

You mean you've never heard of the "groping words" defense?

Extra mayo is what makes a BLT a Gay BLT.

I'll miss Jeremy, but he was problematic for several reasons. And hey, he got to go out in style, and I don't mean the decapitation. I mean that he finally said, out loud, that people should leave Mystic Falls. That is a very good idea! It is not a very good place to live!

Of course, there is another possibility, which is that the ring isn't malfunctioning, but is in fact functioning better than intended for some reason. That would be totally awesome, but for the fact that all the characters got a case of the stupids and didn't wonder aloud about whether getting hit by a car "counts" -…

I'm definitely caught in a difficult position, because on the one hand I sincerely believe that TSC's actor problems, such as they are, are almost entirely writing problems. On the other hand, I'm no longer convinced that the characters on TVD are the paragons of plausibility I so desperately want them to be. So maybe…

Happy Holidays to you, too. I'll try to answer your question, but it's difficult to hold back the tangents and ranting.

@avclub-2bc89f96d5af36cd7c598b934297491f:disqus You'd get more mileage out of contemplating whether your pizza delivery guy is actually a member of some weird pizza-based cult.

"I can't believe it… Cassie Blake is gonna have to choke a bitch!"

The part about her jumping the gun when Tessa's name was called was also a little… weird. Weird is usually okay. But the followup retroactively made it a sort of bad-weird.

Eh, you don't have to be an underdog to be a misfit; it just helps. I see where you're coming from, but on the other hand I do give the show credit for distinguishing Levy and Sisto's "look" from the suburban caricatures they've created for the rest of the cast.

It was handled poorly. I eventually interpreted it as her being disaffected, but it didn't work for me. It's been pretty well-established that Dalia is a hound dog when it comes to things she cares about; selfish entitlement trumps navel-gazing in those situations, and even penetrates the prescription fog. If the…

"For the benefit of stunted listeners oblivious to context" is going heavy into my snark rotation.

Counterpoint: Live by the sword, live a good, long time!

Some of the more hardcore RPG nerds got a little butthurt by ME2's reduction in equipment/skill complexity, but personally I thought the streamlining was well done. The script, characters, and voice acting were all top-notch regardless. The ME series is probably the best example of sci-fi worldbuilding since, hell,…

Without having seen the movie - but having read countless articles that never fail to mention the whole childhood asthma connection - I have to agree with Ms. Robinson's sentiment that maybe there was a better movie to be made about an asthmatic kid getting interested in movies, with perhaps some surrealistic cutaways…

I'm still waiting for the Doctor to summon enough self awareness to start warning every reasonably young human female he meets that he has a pretty terrible track record with female time-traveling companions.

You're lucky that a significant portion of the Dan Brown Fantasizes that He's Well-Respected and Sexually Attractive genre tangentially relates to Vatican conspiracies, then.

LINUS: So, how did it go Charlie Brown?
CHARLIE BROWN: She fucking hates me.

Spin Doctors were a great band that played shitty music. While a lot of bands that came out around that time delivered consistently subpar live performances, the Spin Doctors clearly knew what they were doing with their instruments.