The fact that the characters actually read it is pretty important, too. How much more powerful is the end of 1984, knowing that both the main characters literally read a book explaining exactly what's going on in their world? Separate and apart from the fact that it's a critique of the real world as well, it serves a…

The fact that the characters actually read it is pretty important, too. How much more powerful is the end of 1984, knowing that both the main characters literally read a book explaining exactly what's going on in their world? Separate and apart from the fact that it's a critique of the real world as well, it serves a…

Maybe they assume that all the assholes who act like that got to where they are by acting like that, rather than by winning the birth (or some other) lottery. Silly plebes. Two hundred thousand dollars is not a sufficient investment to actually be entitled to any reasonable return, especially not in education futures.…

Maybe they assume that all the assholes who act like that got to where they are by acting like that, rather than by winning the birth (or some other) lottery. Silly plebes. Two hundred thousand dollars is not a sufficient investment to actually be entitled to any reasonable return, especially not in education futures.…

Her solo album should be called "Don't Call Me."

Her solo album should be called "Don't Call Me."

I like the world you live in. In it, young people uniformly have good taste, and the guy they voted for actually turned out to be the same guy who made decisions once inaugurated.

Which once again raises the question of why I'm not being paid $15 billion dollars a year for only costing the world a few hundred grand at the most.

From Justin to Kelly With Commentary sounds like the title of a pretty bitchin' indie snark film.

Seriously, this is the white-people-music version of "It's a good thing nigga rhymes with nigga, otherwise this rap shit would be hard."

Ah, cutting stuff out of an episode of television that originally aired months ago in a different country: yet another cutting-edge media technique specifically designed to convince people that piracy is wrong.

Rape is fine to talk about as long as you talk about it in exactly the way that the listener secretly knows and understands you ought to talk about it, and in no other way, and if you fail to live up to their exact standards you are most likely a misogynistic apologist for rape culture who also probably rapes people,…

This episode was really uneven - with the low point definitely being Juliet's narration-to-nobody of what was on the computer screen - but it's interesting to see them bring back science in a big way.

Young people buy; old people vote. Old people don't get to say what stays on TV, and young people don't get to say who runs the country.

As we come to the end of another season, it becomes ever-the-more apparent that the Supernatural team is really good at developing ideas for the beginnings and endings of seasons, but have no idea how to craft a middle that makes the setup worthwhile or the payoff satisfying. This episode did what it did very well…

There's been a lot of retconning as far as Elena's motivations and feelings are concerned, but that's actually the one area where I'm okay with retconning generally. Real people do that kind of retconning to their own lives constantly. It's still maddening to watch them do it, but it happens all the time. It doesn't…

The White Oak Stake has been sold as a trump card of sorts. Piercing the heart of a werewolf could, in theory, kill it, since it involves inflicting devastating trauma on a vital organ, which is not something a werewolf can shrug off like a vampire can (when it's something other than a wooden stake to the heart,…

There's a general rule for CW teen dramas that any adult who might actually forge a positive, fulfilling relationship with a younger person needs to die or be exposed as a liar/cheat/demon/whatever, and preferably ASAP.

Great episode. I'm not sure I can add much more, except to say that I'm a little bummed out that Morgan's apparently handing off his duties to Trevino. I don't doubt Trevino's ability, but it seems like the priorities got flipped a bit. Morgan was great but Klaus had to go; now Morgan's gone but Klaus is still around.

A frustrating end to a frustrating season; I could probably dedicate pages upon pages to how the writers went about assaulting, undermining, and outright murdering interesting ideas and interesting characters almost nonstop for an entire season of television whilst clinging desperately to ideas and decisions that just…