To be fair, there's a difference between a story that's simply a rehash of a genre, and a story that's deliberately pushing all the cliches of a genre up to 11.   Pacific Rim did that last one rather brilliantly.

Wow, that sure is a lot of angry assertions.

As I was watching that, I was floored by just how great his delivery was.  Even the weaker jokes he made landed simply due to how well he sold them.

Definitely a major Veridian Dynamics vibe.

I hope that this has set the stage for Yukio's character to come back for a classic Logan + Young Woman buddy story. Wolverine stories work great when he has a young female foil (Kitty Pryde, Rogue, Jubilee, etc).

I might be getting a masters degree in conflict studies next year, which is ostensibly about international  politics, but could just as easily be about sex.

Goddammit, this show sounds absolutely fantastic in a universe where it isn't being helmed by Ryan Murphy.

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Speaking of Whose Line and TVD, I quite enjoyed Candice Accola's performance on it.  She was very game for everything – except the idea of Colin milking her – and put in a pretty enthusiastic performance.  I'd rank her as the best guest they've had so far, with Lauren Cohan's silent performance in last.

Reign is a remake of actual history!

@avclub-ad45e11f2e88b8963920c79cd1d8755e:disqus ,

@avclub-e3f5ab7f02122f95b801e13e2c586d6a:disqus …  But on the plus side, now I get to see John Cleese live!

Vish Khanna is writing for the AV Club now?  Nice!  The AV Club could use a little wrath.

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It turns out that we all had chlamydia THE ENTIRE TIME.

WTF?  The Borgias was quality TV since the beginning of season 2.

They also did London, and TSN is sub-licensing some of the 2014 rights.

Does NBC have the Olympic rights in perpetuity or something?  For a while, CTV and CBC were in pretty significant competition over the Canadian rights, and each tried to sell the IOC on just how high-quality their coverage would be.

I was listening to Q on CBC today; they were talking about misogyny in music, but it applies here too.

This sucks, but he's awesome.