It's too bad Pocahontas wasn't an actual book musical. Because EVERYTHING but the music sucked and if it was a book musical they could throw out the book and try to do something ELSE with the very good music.

That's what I've been figuring for the Blaine brains. Especially since Blaine didn't seem to have major personality changes when we see him. That would be points in favor of Lowell who seems to be eating whole brains (PTSD sufferer a few weeks ago, gay virologist this week, etc.)

I think he may be part of the conspiracy, if for no other reason than he seemed to recognize her name when they were in the interrogation room. Just like how the Lieutenant seemed to have heard of her.

I think the other zombies know about it. (Blaine's quote to his girlfriend that how this will make you "feel like a teenager.") But at the Meat Cute she was making meals out of multiple brains for a single dish. If that's the common way to get brains, I imagine the "visions" would be non-existent or totally…

You thought he looked like Jesus? I thought he looked like he'd lost his eye (it was just a very bad bruise) and he looked like Odin. Losing an eye can be seen as a mythic symbol of exchanging part of the body (or even death) for wisdom. Odin hangs on the tree for nine days to gain wisdom (possibly where the Jesus…

Yeah, I Was A Male War Bride and Father Goose were my first Grant films as a kid — they're perfectly good films. I don't think I realized Grant was a "movie star" instead of a comedian until I was a teen.

"Goddamn" in the phrase "goddamn good" is an adverb. Adverbs modify adjectives, adjectives do not modify other adjectives.

His husband was out of town for work (he said that when he agreed to come to Santiago's dinner) and his family lives on the West Coast (9th Circuit Court: http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov….

I've read that book! Philippe Aries' Centuries of Childhood explores the creation of European childhood even more thoroughly if you're interested.

You're mis-remembering a bit. The military realizes they are a hive mind when Rackham kills the Queen and they all fall comatose/dead in all the other ships. They keep it a secret until they tell Ender.

But they weren't six-year-olds. They were six-year-olds in military school with kids who were young teenagers as their leaders and adults who expected them to act like soldiers. The book is about the corrupting influence of the military on humanity. The first thing the military destroys is these kids' childhoods.…

Okay, I'm going to assume you seriously don't get it, not that you are trolling. Here's the short version (as explained by my psychologist dad when I was 10): A person's sex is biological; it's their genes, body parts and hormones. Gender is a person's thoughts and feelings. Sexuality is who that person wants to be…

I'm actually wondering if, long term, we'll learn that Aang was a wildly different parent to each of his kids.  Much like Tenzin not remembering his siblings weren't on those vacations, perhaps Bumi and Kya don't remember their childhoods as well as they think either.

I thought the girl's were his and Alma's too. Alma didn't strike me as the divorcing type.  Unless y'know, he cheats and then she's targeted by a serial killer.

So is it going to be an America where the British honored their treaties with the Native Americans and the original 13 colonies are basically it?  Will California / the southwest belong to Mexico who had a religious war with the Mormons in the country of Deseret (assuming they actually made it through the French owned…

Erm — I didn't mean to be anti-gay or anti-socialist.  Though I can see how both could be taken that way since it's as an internet comment it's a little jumbled.  For example I would say "not living with your wife" is different from most modern American lifestyles, but not necessarily an "anti" statement.  And…

That was a great question!  I'm glad you asked about it then, because I had blocked a lot of the story and had to look it up.

Is it Chaucer or Boccacio?

I haven't read that one. Is it a must read?

I wasn't bothered by the portrayal of the Persians.  I was bothered by the portrayal of the Spartans.  They were genocidal slave-owners who even the Athenians thought were crazy. They enslaved the local population of non-Spartans to do all their farming, regularly slaughtered the men and raped the women. They had one…