I hope you're right, because that definitely sounds more plausible than my reading, which was that she's known she's pregnant for quite a while and has taken tests for weeks or longer because she's suddenly really into magical thinking or something. I'm not sure where I got that, except that it didn't seem like she'd…

Oh, I don't even remember whether she took them in the hospital or not, but she was definitely prescribed them. A few people mentioned being bothered that she was taking meds while pregnant, so I thought I'd mention the (pretty irrelevant, now that you mention it) fact that even pregnant people have to take meds. …

I'm kind of assuming (maybe wrongly) that she isn't going to keep the pregnancy—you know, provided she stops taking tests and finally accepts that the damn things are positive—so I'm not scandalized that she'd drink or take meds during a pregnancy she doesn't want. I'll also point out that even pregnant people with…

Taking a huge number of pregnancy tests in one day because you just don't want to accept what they're saying makes sense, particularly for an obsessive, highly-strung person. But I got the impression that those dozens of tests had accumulated over quite some time, from even before she was in the hospital—maybe even…

That's what I thought too. I was pointing out that it wasn't an abortion, but a delivery of a dead fetus.

The reviewer said so: "… especially by the end of this episode, when Masters performs an abortion on his own wife, to remove the dead fetus from her uterus." I know what an abortion is, hence my post.

I didn't say it was everyone's experience, for fuck's sake. I admitted that, despite my former skepticism, evidence shows it does happen to 43% of women. I'm not sure why anyone thinks I simply used anecdata to say bleeders are liars or whatever; that wasn't my intention at all.

Well, the driver for my post was to answer Wha_ever's question, which I did first with anecdotal evidence (I thought it was a myth) and then with totally infallible Wikipedia evidence (turns out it isn't a myth). I didn't say it never happens just because it didn't happen to me; I clearly admitted that it does happen…

I always suspected that very noticeable bleeding was something of a myth, so it's always annoyed me to see blood portrayed as definitive and infallible proof of virginity in TV and movies and books. It didn't happen to me or anyone I know with whom I've discussed it (not that I've discussed it with a hell of a lot of…

I don't think Masters performed an abortion on his wife. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure he just performed a delivery—the fetus was dead, but it was delivered nonetheless.

It was Stripe, not Spike, in Gremlins! I know because that's what I named my beloved dog that we got soon after my parents took me to see Gremlins—when I was four. Scared the hell out of me, but my dog did have a white stripe on his forehead.

Heh—I'll admit that, written out, it sounds comical even to me. Watching it, though, I guess I just over-identified with the girl, who knows she's helpless and about to be brutally murdered—but they decide to make a joke of it and torment her first… And the grotesque old man really wants to kill her with that hammer,…

I do know what you mean, and I think a lot of people see the movie that way. But I guess for me, in this case, the ridiculousness serves to make the horror even worse. Grotesquerie unsettles me more than anything else, for one thing, and I just keep thinking about how awful it would be to be brutally murdered—and yet…

Indeed, but repeatedly referring to him as "the Negro"—not just pointing out that the lead is black, but essentially making that his defining trait—is off-putting, especially when it's entirely irrelevant to his discussion of children viewing the movie. The worst part is that Ebert isn't even that egregious for the…

I saw it in a packed theater too, full of teenagers like myself, but unfortunately I didn't feel the instant camaraderie—because I had to sit next to some weird guy who turned and blatantly stared at me during every intense scene. It was like he wanted to see what my reaction was, but definitely not in a friendly…

I had a similar experience with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: I saw it at a slumber party when I was 10 or 11, and the other girls fucking laughed through it. Like someone above, I hate that movie; it remains one of the most disturbing horror movies I've seen. I remember a scene where Leatherface eggs on an old man…

Well, it was before the ratings system was in place, and as Ebert mentions, horror movies until that point had usually been cheesy kids' fare. I can't blame the parents, really.

I have something else to say! I love The Others too, and I feel like it never got the attention it deserved. Case in point: the blurb above suggests that the protagonists died "like, a hundred years ago"—which makes me wonder if whoever wrote it even saw the movie, since it's abundantly clear that it's set just after…

This is the first season I've seen of this show. It IS strangely fascinating! I look forward to it every week. But while I love everything involving Jessica Lange's character, I kinda think the rest—an immortal Madame LaLaurie, a witch's school where nobody teaches or learns anything, Frankenboyfriend—is just silly…

Yeah, what is this whole Frankenboyfriend thing about? Zoe realizes he's not … all there, right? He can't even talk! He can barely walk! Did she think he'd suddenly return to normal when she brought him to his mother? And why was she so shocked that he'd killed her, given that she watched him beat somebody to death…