Yes, to both of these. I'd rather have the experience of watching a very good TV show than the experience of reading some (judging by what little I managed to get through) mediocre-to-decent books and then fussing about how those books were adapted. And yes, I have other things to do - and other books to read - than…

Well, I do have a life, asshole. That, and I do read plenty of books, and I don't feel the need to stop reading all the dozens of books I'd like to read that aren't already being adapted as an HBO series, simply so I can more effectively blather online with fellow nerds on a different part of the AV Club.

SEE YOU AT THE PAHTY, TRAILAH

This video is too sexy for my country, apparently.

I HAVE ALSO HAD SMALL BUT MEATY ROLES IN SUCH FILMS AS DO THE RIGHT THING AND TREES LOUNGE, MOTHERFUCKER!

"It's like bringing up egg salad around Kirk."

And as far as "due process" in general is concerned - this is the same administration that last year killed an American citizen by drone strike without any due process whatsoever, without producing any evidence that the guy was a terrorist, other than the fact that he'd said some mean things about America on the…

@avclub-aa854f5836947cdf62324ba7d74e1c43:disqus Dude, that waiver doesn't mean that terrorism suspects "get due process" now. What it means is that the DOJ has the option to either send you to a military prison OR to civilian courts, whereas without that waiver, terrorism suspects would be forced to go to military…

Y'know what? Good for Alec Baldwin for speaking up for the elephants. I know PETA sucks and all, but elephants are really smart, sensitive animals, and we've treated them like shit pretty much since we've been able to do anything to them, and the conditions in circuses are especially deplorable. Just for this, I…

Dwight finally locates Michael in a hidden location somewhere in upstate New York, where Michael has been posing as a mercenary, and brings the surviving office-mates there to bring him in. The meeting is a trap, however, and they are quickly surrounded by federation agents, leading Dwight to impulsively conclude that…

I'm going to wait for the gritty Christopher Nolan reboot, in which the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are hardened street kids who smear green face paint over themselves to show their contempt for your bourgeois morality.

I haven't read these books, buuuut… is there any explanation for how or why anyone would divide the districts up into really irritating-to-map-in-real-life patterns like perfect circles, curves and swirly shapes, when natural formations like rivers, mountains and shit still presumably exist?

The thing about the TSA jokes is that while it's irritating to have to take your belt and shoes off and do the whole security theater thing at the airport, if this is what you're complaining about in terms of lost liberties in America in 2012, you're either pretty well insulated from all the other shit that's ruining…

weird little states with questionable dietary traditions REPRESENT

The one that goes off to write for a failing, long-past-its-expiration-date NBC sitcom which everyone would like to pretend doesn't exist, but continues to mock other pop culture on the basis of all the laffs she's produced in some parallel universe where she went on to do something noteworthy?

As a fan of the original trilogy and a skeptic of prequels in general, I was always wary of the new movies when they were announced (there's also this thing called "knowing when to stop," which neither Hollywood nor geeks really get). So when the prequels turned out to be shit, I wasn't really surprised, and didn't go…

Who was ever saying that George Lucas owed anybody anything? Most of us were just saying that his movies sucked.

"When the sun is consuming the galaxy"?

So… what's with people referring to Yemen as "the Yemen"?

Also: that's a lot of shelf wear on Ratner's copy.