Well, they're probably not getting rid of her for good. I just could be done with her whole plotline, including whatever revenge Marina has in store for her and Julia. The sooner they dispense with all that, the better.

Ok, so things are improving. Incrementally, and not necessarily surely, but definitely in the right direction. Most important, as Lisa said in her review, they've s l o w e d down. Very little in this episode felt like it needed more time to develop, and the B plot, even though it was kind of ridiculous, was…

Oh yeah, that would definitely work on me. I find that it's mostly the sound that gets me. Like, take the Exorcist III. That famous moment with the nurse and the hallway (if you haven't seen it, see it, even if you just check the scene out on Youtube. It's great. The rest of the movie, not so much) isn't nearly as…

You're right, there was a scene like that. I just got the feeling that whatever ideas Quentin might have had about Fillory being real, they were more in line with daydreaming about, say, going to Narnia. It was another beat in Quentin's constant need to escape reality arc. In the book there's really not that much talk…

Yeah, nothing says "I support the gay community" like spending 5 and a half minutes rapping about how straight you are. You know, despite the fact that you liked to draw when you were a child! Ah, drawing, a hallowed cornerstone of homosexuality, right up there with having a gay uncle, and keeping a tidy room.

I'm rewatching the whole show with my boyfriend, and in those episodes where the citizens of Pawnee are really treating Leslie like human garbage (particularly during the whole recall-campaign era), he's been known to wonder, out loud: "Why does Leslie care so much about these people?" And I'm kind of hard-pressed to…

It was a little disjointed. I'm nitpicking here, but I was watching it with someone who hasn't read the books, and I felt the need to lean over and say "Quentin turned into a goose!" just in case it wasn't clear to him. Sure, there just isn't room in the budget for a full-fledged transformation, but you know… if…

Well, it seems like Fillory is a common thread amongst most of the characters; they all seem to be at least aware of it, and a lot were/are fans. Quentin takes it a lot more seriously, of course, but yeah.

Maybe, but it feels like we have to imagine what Quentin's been thinking. Like, "If magic is real, why couldn't Fillory be real?" I mean, sure, he's been having visions of Jane Chatwin, and he saw the grandfather clock in the first episode, and there's been talk of other worlds, so it wouldn't be wholly to him…

I feel like we're going to get a couple exterior shots and then, you know, lots of indoor stuff. Doubt they'll turn into foxes, because CGI is expensive, and something they sidestepped by having them turn into geese offscreen, and because they probably won't be spending too much time out in the (fake) Antarctic…

Geese! Brakebills South! I mean, I'm not saying my faith has been wholly restored, but I was so, so suspicious that we were going to lose most of this plotline that I had kind of made my peace with it. They found a reasonably suitable way to skirt around the CGI restrictions of showing people actually transforming…

I haven't seen this yet but I'd wager a guess that it doesn't have too many jump-scares, which are the bread and butter of modern horror movies. And while they're totally effective tricks, jump scares are incredibly overused, to the point where anybody who's ever seen more than one horror movie can pretty accurately…

Indeed.

Hmm. You know, I never really considered that interpretation; for some reason what Angier does seems more monstrous because it's against nature, or some such… even though, can what Angier does really be considered murder? Of course, Borden does awful things as well, and does get rewarded for it. I guess we're supposed…

Maybe I'm exceedingly gullible but I had absolutely no idea what the twist was going to be here. It's not that the Bale-as-Fallon disguise is even remotely convincing, it's that Nolan keeps misdirecting us away from Fallon, and the simplest explanation, at every turn. He dangles fascinating distractions: Bowie as…

I have some cobbed together, vaguely grey-market, supposedly "complete" DVD version of this that I enthusiastically picked up a few years back, having heard about the incredibly profane things that went on, and the awesome Jarman design, and I wasn't disappointed on either front. That said, if Salo can be released by…

This was less a physical resemblance to Johnny Depp than a whole, weird, actor-y "I do a really amazing imitation of Captain Jack Sparrow and fancy myself a handsome gentleman!" kind of thing. It was insufferable, but them's the breaks at drama school.

Yeah, the Brains, Beauty, Brawn conceit is exhausting, and will be at least until one tribe is decimated and they redistribute everyone into two tribes. It's mostly ridiculous because the players seem to take these sometimes seemingly arbitrary divisions to heart, and just go ahead and embody the very worst traits of…

I went to drama school as a playwright (yeah, yeah, worth every penny, obviously) and my actor classmates played a little game one year where they cast which actors would play us in the movie of our class. Primarily it was a game started by someone who really reminded himself of Johnny Depp, and wanted everybody to…

I haven't had most of his oeuvre inflicted upon me, but even though the Charlie's Angels movies were, you know, not exactly good, they were definitely watchable. I mean, I hadn't torn my eyes directly from my skull by the time the credits rolled. Success!