Lee Jordan was friends with the Weasley twins and was also involved with the Umbridge hand-slicing thing that happens in the early part of book 5. Parvati has a plot in book 3 (that carries over into the other books, though less prominently) over her love of Divination and her clashes with Hermione. Angelina Johnson…

The Harry Potter books aren't EXTREMELY racially diverse but there are a decent number of POC characters who get their own subplots weaved through the books. And of course those small plots were never going to get translated to the films because of the time constraint issue, but it is sad to see the way things just…

Calling things "mistakes" is the preferred language of people who got caught doing something that they don't actually feel that bad about but who know that people are going to get angry at them for doing it. "Mistake" implies some level of honest miscalculation. You can't honestly miscalculate beating somebody up!

My passion for Joshua Jackson stems all the way back from Dawson's Creek, thank you. Pacey was a gem.

I find that the bones of their renovations are usually good but their color schemes are god awful. They also always manage to pick chairs and sofas that look good for a staging, not good for actually sitting your ass in every day for the foreseeable future. Jonathan is a constant source of disappointment.

The drive from LA to Monterey (which I make on a fairly regular basis, as I'm in LA and my sister is in Monterey) is generally between 5 and 6 hours on the 101. There is no way to avoid the slowdown around Santa Barbara. I've never not hit traffic there.

This page redesign is fucking awful. Shove the (completely useless) "More Newswire" sidebar back at the top where I can safely ignore it instead of squashing the rest of the page. Why do you hate us, AV Club?

I think Brokeback has aged perfectly fine. I was pretty young when it came out, so maybe I benefit from not being aware of all of the mockery when it was happening, but it's still beautifully shot and very affecting.

Definitely seconding Inside No. 9. Highly underrated—and anything with Anna Chancellor in the first episode gets approval in my book.

After season two I was mostly watching because it was one of the only shows that both my mom and I watched and hating it was a bonding experience. But the point stands.

Ryan Murphy likes to write character driven stories but doesn't give a shit about any of his characters. He makes shows where it is against your best interests to get emotionally involved in what you're watching, because you will only end up angry and disappointed.

CalTech is a real school, FYI (I don't know if you already knew that or not, but the quotation marks around the school name threw me off a bit).

Look at this person's comment history before you freak out on the SJW (aka: it's a troll).

I AM LAID LOW BY THE MATRIARCHY

Misandry! Misandry! Misandry!

Perhaps if I were demigalactisexual…in that case, I'd only make you watch through season two.

As far as I'm concerned, sapiosexual is the functional equivalent of me saying that I'm Galactisexual because I would never enter a long term relationship with someone who had never seen or would not consider seeing Battlestar Galactica. Cool story, doesn't need a word.

In college, I somehow ended up becoming friends with a lot of people who had been raised as evangelical Christians and later rebelled, and yeah, they had all had the chastity thing drummed into their heads. They were all from the godless land of heathens that is southern California, too, and had been threatened with…

Absolutely! That's what I was trying to refer to.

Sometimes people try to get poetic and cutesy with their letters and I feel like that was an attempt at that. A creepy, creepy attempt.