I don't mind diving in. Sabbath's Theater it is. Thanks!

It's not about being for or against anyone. It's about including everyone, in the sense of acknowledging that this — race as considered in a tone-deaf way or a safe remove — isn't the race conversation, just one of them. I understand that's probably not what the writer meant to imply, but saying so would help.

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"When literary fiction dares examine the issue of race at all, it is
usually done in an exceedingly tone-deaf way (think William Styron’s Confessions Of Nat Turner or Kathryn Stockett’s The Help) or from a somewhat safe remove (think Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue)…"

You know, I felt the same way for the longest time — that season 4 was the shakiest of the series. But I recently rewatched it start to finish — for the first time since I first saw it, actually — and found things much better than I remembered. There are still clunkers (I won't feel any desire to rewatch "Mental as…

she's shown to hold office equal to her male peers, and is suggested to be a more personable leader than either Crais or Scorpius.

That's part of what puts Grayza somewhere beyond standard seductress too. (Though not far.) The trope's played pretty straight with Braca, at least ostensibly. Then you realize what Grayza really does to Crichton. And what she's done to herself — the Heppel oil can't be used without consequences, after all.

Oh, you can definitely see shades of this in Grayza.

"I still contend that there’s no reason for Rectify to offer up the identity of Hanna Dean’s killer at all, but I recognize that’s a minority opinion…" I actually get the sense it's the viewers who want answers to the murder mystery who are in the minority. For my part, I'd be troubled if the question of who killed…

I think you mean "cultivate." You're cultivating mass the Mac way.

I have to say, the five or so seconds we saw Diggle didn't leave me too hopeful for more quality facetime in the coming season.

That header image is a delight.

Battleship was also a Peter Berg movie, so there was that reason as well.

Unwatchable first season?!

Sounds like the folks on this show tend to have cool ideas they maybe don't think out deeply enough. The Castithan ritual bath always felt like that to me; I'd think communal bathing in a conservative society would be gender segregated. Though perhaps I'm mistaken there.

Don't forget the tornado, guys. That happened.

It was. Don't know why I thought otherwise.

We see it. Does Vincent? Or rather: would he care enough about her to want to interpret her actions as those of someone acting as her own agent? Vincent's own protest was likely curbed for the same reason Maude's was — you don't piss off the guy calling the shots. Simon — while, male, fully able-bodied — is that guy,…

I think that the problem's between the points you and @sarahlizard:disqus make. It's Maude's passivity, given her association with Simon — who they've definitely seen showing Caliban loathing — that damns her in Vincent's eyes. And Vincent's reaction is victim-blaming, I think, but not a conscious sort; which doesn't…

I hope so too. And man, Dorian getting shut down at the start of the episode: "I know a good restaura — "