What if he danced for nickels?

Some kids' movies are supposed to be scary.

I was watching The Hungry Earth again a couple of days ago and the length, or lack thereof, of her shorts, seemed to be ridiculously impractical and unrealistic. I don't have a problem with men/non-hetero women being attracted to women, of course, it's natural, but there's a point where unrealistic objectification…

I find it difficult to feel sympathy for anyone who says 'Why does any man do anything? I met a girl'. I do however feel sympathy for said 'girl', as to have been in a relationship with someone who calls himself an adult and infantilises her must have been very taxing. If you're going to call yourself a man, call me a…

I like how they did it in The Book Thief - Germans speaking English with German accents but also with all the short, contextually obvious German words like 'nein' and 'und' said in untranslated German.

Would that explain also why it took Desmond so long to go outside?

Timeline. See Lostpedia. For other facts about the show as well.

The romantic aspect of Sayid's internal turmoil was related to him not being with her for so many years. Sayid is one of the characters most screwed over by the Island and its people, as he was happy until Nadia got iced, and even then he eventually tried to live a life off-Island and spoke with inner peace to Locke…

My atheism does not prevent me from enjoying and suspending disbelief regarding an afterlife presented in fiction. Supernatural and His Dark Materials both have afterlives of sorts, and they're respectively, mostly pretty good and entirely awesome. However, the FST in Lost had no connection to the previous five…

For me, it was pretty much right around the last 3 minutes when I realised what the FST was. I didn't write an undergraduate dissertation on why His Dark Materials eats The Chronicles of Narnia for breakfast in the hopes that one of my favourite shows would end by paying semi-nonsensical and anti-humanist (the show…

They didn't have to go back, though. Jack is the only one who went back because he felt mystically broken. Hurley did it because he felt mystically linked to the Island's people (i.e. unknowingly destined to be the new Jacob), Kate and Sun did it to effect reunions and rescues, Sayid was kidnapped and taken there…

Through the Looking Glass, then Exodus, then There's No Place Like Home, then Live Together, Die Alone, then The Incident, then The End. Because of the colossal stupidity of every 1977 main character except Miles in The Incident, I would put The Incident below The End if it weren't for the presence of the FST in the…

The only thing Charles Widmore and Dobby have in common?

To show that Hurley's nerves are frayed. If it was anything more than that, why have Sawyer pooh-pooh him immediately afterwards?

And fangirls. Not me though. I thought the same thing as you on first watch, and I think the same thing on 27th watch.

Yeah. It did. Right before it crapped gold.

Sawyer describes Jack's winning hand as a pair of 9s, yet the 2 cards Jack actually has are clearly not a pair of 9s.

Could more than 8 people have fit in that helicopter?

How's this for a ludicrously contrived theory? Hurley's off-island imaginary Dave looks the way he does because Hurley's construction of Dave is based off photographs of his grandfather as a young man - David's father, not Carmen's who I assume is Tito. Perhaps David Reyes Sr. was a loving grandfather to Hurley as a…

And yet the writers somehow missed the fact that the idea that the main characters lived out the rest of their lives without resolving their issues is incredibly depressing and an affront to everything that humanism and the concept of life as important and precious stands for. Maybe that's what you get when you base…