Where are you getting that from? While there are certainly some hard cases, most of the rail-riders I've met were folk musicians or suburban runaways.

The animation budget also increases over time on X-Men. I recently revisited it and the first season looks pretty shabby, but it gets better and move detailed every season until it really looks quite good. I see X-Men as a really solid cartoon adaptation, and Batman as something good enough to transcend the medium…

I agree. Never got the widespread love for it. In fact, I would say Schumacher's movies are vastly overrated, even if people often don't realize he directed or actively attribute them to him. I remember watching a lot of movies as a kid in the 80s and 90s which would give me a certain feeling of disappointment. It's…

Yeah it took me a while to buy Coach McGuirk as a secret agent too.

Indeed, some quick research shows that there has been some reevaluation since I last studied the subject. I stand corrected.

What does him being racist or a dick have to do with what I said? I'm saying that he wasn't the driving force behind the exploitative, punitive approach to reconstruction. Are you saying he was?

Wait a minute: Johnson wanted to continue Lincoln's reconstruction policies. He was a Southern Democrat put on the ticket as an attempt at conciliation with the South. He was stymied by the Republican-controlled congress who wanted blood from the Confederacy and impeached on trumped-up charges because of that…

While I wouldn't say Charlie was ABOVE this sort of thing, I do take your point that torture is more properly in Dennis' wheelhouse. I blame the paint-drinking.

The only people in the wrong here are the writers for doing this "consequences of not being completely honest" plot AGAIN. How many times before we can be done with this shit? Vixen was cool, the Damien Darhke plot was cool. But any episode that includes Oliver not being totally honest and people being upset about it…

Except he almost never wore it. Usually he just went out in the field in plain clothes, with no mask, using his real name freely. While everyone else is wearing elaborate costumes to conceal their identities. It got increasingly ridiculous as we added more and more sidekicks. The mask wasn't great, but I thought it…

I never understood the adoration for that character and storyline. Yes,
it was the only thing that came even close to working in the show for a
long time, but he was just another fucking mobster, with a gay "twist." What was so revelatory about it? Ray Stevenson is a fine actor, but that is not enough for a truly…

I'm a big defender of the Greatest Show in the Galaxy, but it's controversial among fans, and not the best entry point for a number of reasons. I personally find the rapping ringmaster quaint and charming, but it's not how you want to be introduced to Doctor Who. Plus it's a real odd-duck episode by any metric. I'd go…

I've always thought that starting with "An Unearthly Child" was not as good an idea as it seems, since the premise it sets up is not really relevant to the majority of the show.

Funny, I love classic Doctor Who, but I'd rather chew on glass than watch new Doctor Who.

Really? I had the impression that the X-Files was great at creating intriguing innuendo and hinting at an underlying conspiracy, but shit the bed when it came time to cobble all those hints together into an actual reveal. Do you have some behind-the-scenes information that they were working from a master plan?

The funny thing is: this dude was a great guy and a good friend. Unless you said 'soda.' And he wasn't the only one. In fact, the baking soda thing and the 'soda is the modifier, pop is the noun' thing came from two different people. I couldn't get a single person to admit that it was arbitrary and didn't really…

Everyone else here thinks that your comment is joking, self-aware faux-outrage, but I know the truth.

I lived near Pittsburgh for a while and people would get legit ANGRY if I called it soda. One guy pointedly went and got a thing of baking soda and slammed it in front of me when I asked for a soda at his house. I've heard justifications about how "pop" is the noun and "soda" is the modifier in "soda pop" so it makes…

It's been a while since I saw the older ones, but I only got around to seeing Fury Road a few days ago (awesome, of course. wish I'd caught it in theatres) and, based on the conversation around it I was expecting Max to be much more sidelined than he was (and I was also expecting it to be much more in-your-face with…

Yes I've read that article and the rebuttal, and the rebuttal of the rebuttal. I think Coates (who has gone on record as saying that he plans to vote for Sanders, despite his criticisms) makes a lot of good points. But I've heard a lot more arguments against this liberal who thinks class-based remedies make race-based…