Born in '85 also, and the original Star Wars trilogy is absolutely on my list.  Watched those movies more than anything else, and while all the changes made since then have done their best to tarnish that memory, I still consider them among my favorite movies ever.

It's a movie, genius.

That's a pretty solid list.  I stopped reading somewhere around Marlfox/The Long Patrol, and don't remember much of either.  12-year-old me would bump Salamandastron into the "Really, really good" list, but at this point I couldn't tell you for sure.

Haha, nope, right there with you on stoats.  Voles too, I think.

Is it racist simply for that fact that certain animals (rats, weasels, ferrets, etc.) are always inherently evil and villainous, or is there more to it?

Whenever I read a complaint by someone that George R.R. Martin spends too much time describing the food his characters are eating, I think "Clearly this person never read any of the Redwall books".

Favorite Redwall books off the top of my head:  Redwall, Mossflower, The Bellmaker, Salamandastron, and Martin the Warrior.  I'm sure I forgot a few good ones/butchered a couple of those names.

Sad to say, I actually owned that at one point.

@Scrawler2:disqus @avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus Yep, there's usually a book thread going every week in the Pop Culture Weekend feature (credit to K. Thrace for usually starting it [whose name I can never tag in Disqus]).  I always find some great recommendations there.

I believe it was "Qui-Gon's Noble End", but yeah, I'm right there with you.

Currently one third of the way through Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, which is very good (no news there).  I also am reading around 4 different non-fiction books, which I've realized is just too many to do at once, so I'm making slow progress on all of them.

Glad to hear that "To High to Die" is good.  I've been trying to avoid buying it by suggesting that my local library system (which is fantastic) purchase it, but no luck yet.

Apparently Marah and… no one else.

Is that a bad thing?

@avclub-131799f66a96ee034181e8a54b4c0b49:disqus Thanks, I'll have to check that out.

Maybe not as many sites cover the sheer number of TV shows that the AVC does, but it seems like every random site now has it's own recap of "big" shows like Mad Men, Girls, Game of Thrones, etc.  I could fine good TV criticism a lot easier than I could good film discussion.

I looked it up, and you're right.   My last memory of Scrubs was how terrible that fantasy episode was, and I thought I'd refused to watch any of the ABC episodes based on how bad a taste that final NBC one left me with, but after reading some episode summaries of that first ABC season I think I most have watched that…

@avclub-f121d09285898f1c66d66f1e6f0455a6:disqus Yep, it's always surprising to me how many people feel no need to hide how moronic they are.

@avclub-f121d09285898f1c66d66f1e6f0455a6:disqus See above  (Forgot to tag you in that comment so that you get a notification).

Some articles do and some don't.  I know their TV recaps, for example, do, but it seems like many main page articles do not.  When they do, it's Facebook commenting.