And for you, that might be the most appealing. And for someone else - someone who can't afford a blu-ray player, for instance - it might be a lot more appealing to torrent the movie. Corporations who'd rather have someone pay to watch the movies they license rather than download them for free have to deal with that.…

@avclub-454a7bfd685393329597fdb7a92b7969:disqus , I was specifically referring to Buckley's demand that the mission of American conservatives should be "to stand athwart history and cry 'stop'." The AV Club is wringing its hands over changes in the entertainment landscape that have been made inevitable by…

I get what I pay for.

They've put a considerable amount of words into it, at least. I find it kind of amusing that for two weeks in a row now, they've put out an argument that amounts to: "Stop. We know that technology has changed, and that it's made it possible for you to get information faster and cheaper and often times in better, more…

FOR OUR CONSIDERATION: The Case For Buying More Of Things That Support The Industry That Keeps Alive The Parasitical Existence Of Websites Such As The One That Hosts The Column "For Our Consideration."

True fact: every Barenaked Ladies song sounds like it could easily be a Burger King ad jingle.

Music critics don't know how to review music. Talk to a human being and ask them what a band/song/album sounds like, and they'll likely try to tell you what it actually, y'know, sounds like. Music critics, on the other hand, are so fucking intent on summing up the trajectory of the band's career and What it All Means…

Water is wet, deserts are dry, and The Simpsons hasn't been funny in over a decade.

According to the IMDB's trivia section - which anyone can edit, and which doesn't cite sources - it was "a real brain." It doesn't say it's a human brain. Given that brains from one similarly-sized mammal look much like brains from another, and given that I imagine it's much easier to get, say, a cow's brain than a…

As I understand it, the Holy Ghost is a metaphor that got out of hand. Granted, the whole Virgin Mother thing itself came from the editors of the Septuagint mistranslating the book of Isaiah, so, whatevs.

Yeah. Super-shitty show, but he did a great job in it.

@avclub-5bbc67c39fbdf1c74e28b86c595f6e4a:disqus - seriously, this has nothing to do with "love to hate" characters and everything to do with "characters that pissed you off/were just annoying."

FERENGI ARE GREEDY
KLINGONS ARE VIOLENT
SHAPESHIFTERS LOVE THEM SOME FASCISM

Yes, yes, it's people using bit torrent that're "depriving the creators of revenue" and not, say, the massive corporations that shluck up all the profits. To quote someone who should know: "Any screenwriter who thinks he loses more money to piracy than to Hollywood studio accounting is a child."

"Whatever gets you through the night"? Really? We're talking about downloading TV shows, not gunning down fleeing villagers back in 'Nam. At what point did you come to think that "piracy" - which, let's be clear here, in this context means "watching an episode of Boardwalk Empire without paying HBO for the privilege,"…

THE BIG BROTHER THEORY IS MY FAVORITE SHOW

Also - has Sean ever heard of a show called "The West Wing," which did, in fact, portray a world run by selfless, morally infallible public servants who rule with a just and evenhanded conscience, and which reliably closed off each episode with a patriotic anecdote about The Pilgrims, George Washington, and/or The…

Actually, no, please do reduce Wallace to a "pansy bullshit rodeo." It's pretty much all Wallace himself did, anyway.

Seriously - it wasn't long ago (okay, like 1920s and 30s) that Ivy administrators and alums were tut-tutting that there were too many Jews sneaking in there (fun fact: one of those alums worried about the prevalence of Jews at Harvard was FDR). Pre-affirmative action, I seriously doubt there were a substantial number…

So very true, Ojingo. Politicians, at least, are accountable to their billionaire donors at Goldman Sachs, just like the Founding Fathers wanted!