Not a fan of anything Eden-related. I don't think Silverstone is bringing anything extra to the table, either.

Lebouf has a rare talent for taking OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A MOVIE dialogue and making it sound more natural than it has any right to sound. It's amazing how few actors do that these days. If a script is really excellent this particular talent becomes less vital, but I don't think it's ever completely superfluous.

If by "dies" you mean "is no longer physically attractive," then… yes.

It's Doctor, god dammit! He didn't become the youngest person ever to graduate from terrible medical school just so you could call him Mister.

I wonder if he pretends each check from Castle is actually due to some other, superior project he's worked on in the past, or if he's actually some sort of living saint. I think those are the only two options still in play.

@zebbart:twitter  And that's the existential problem I mentioned before. Declaring that "this conflict belongs to men" is a dodge in a world where there is, in fact, no foolin', a near-omnipotent creator. Back here in reality, the sun shining only matters because sentient beings - us humans being the only ones we know…

@The_Guilty_Party:disqus That's a bit too specific for my (very old) memories of the trilogy. I'll take your word for it, though. I'm not sure what that does to the analysis; Bombadil has age (which is generally a huge deal in Tolkien) and power - not to mention sentience - but still doesn't seem motivated to do…

You really think Sauron's going to let sleeping Bombadils lie? That seems wholly at odds with what we know about him, and also about the larger themes of power at play within the trilogy (and, indeed, within the entire universe Tolkien constructed, since Sauron's master essentially played out the same story with…

@zebbart:disqus  However, in the LotR trilogy, can you really say that it wasn't? That's like saying that WWII wasn't the most important thing happening in the 1940's. Put Bombadil in The Hobbit to take the piss out of the dwarves, and that's fine. He and pre-ring Bilbo would've gotten along famously.

Perhaps, but the movie wasn't enough about her character for a great performance to have made it that much better. Imagine a Godfather III where the entire film is designed to trick you into thinking that it's all about the daughter's rise, and then ends with everything going to shit because of Michael's sins. She…

Bombadil's a tough nut to crack. If he's meant to represent something or someone (Tolkien himself, the "pure artist" who doesn't care about power, Eru Iluvatar playing skee-ball, etc.) then he's a douchey addition. If he's not meant to represent anything in particular, he doesn't belong in either the trilogy or in…

I had a 50-year-old female potential juror use that line to try to get out of jury duty. The judge was so upset with me for pointing out that it had come from a television show ("Pffft, I don't watch those kinds of shows," he said) that he spent five minutes with us at sidebar trying to explain that if she was…

Dark Bonnie can't be a compelling character until the show stops using Bonnie's magic as a convenient plot device. The transition can't fully occur within Mystic Falls precisely because everything except an Original/Evilaric is so vulnerable to her already. If she goes fully dark, four characters - three of them…

I'm starting to dig most of the non-adult characters on the show in spite of myself. Cassie's still retarded most of the time - although when she goes full-evil instead of full-retard she can be fun - and Jake, eh. Still not a fan of Jake. But the rest of the gang is pretty cool.

Once I found out that TSC was actually based on something, I knew immediately - without ever having read the books or even a thorough plot synopsis - that one of the show's biggest problems was loyalty to the source material. It's just so obvious.

If that happens, they definitely need to work in a partner named Clyde. Or at least work in a partner and then have Damon refuse to call him anything but Clyde.

It must be exhausting for him, being unlike us all the time. I imagine it's worse for people who have to be in an enclosed space with him, however; they must begin to suffer from oxygen deprivation after 5 minutes.

I guess I now know that I am not a fan of 70's sleaze.

I think it was something about how his friends have a tendency to make really loud, weird, elongated vowel noises before telling him to do stuff that's by turns utterly mundane and unintelligibly allegorical.

Can't say I'm impressed by the lyrics or the lead riffs. The former is probably impossible to argue without immediately referring to personal taste, but the latter… meh. It takes a strong lead riff, or collection of several different ones, to justify its/their existence in the mix throughout an entire song. In my…