I really, really hope they just don't bother. The show has taken a truly impressive number of steps to right the ship in these last few weeks, addressed so many significant issues — dull characters, few personal stakes, disconnection from the larger universe — and they have an opportunity here to capitalize on some…

If your kids watch MTV, they've almost certainly already seen a gold covered man pour champagne on a row of gyrating, bethonged asses, countless people selling their basic human dignity for fleeting promises of fame, and Nickelback. At this point, getting offended by language is like pointing out that the Nazis had…

I think that's what a lot of people miss when they talk about the problems of crowd-funded films like this. Yeah, studios are greedy, and yeah, it'd be nice if they at least refunded your donation if the film made that money back, but everyone knows the deal up front, and there's no real deception or manipulation…

That's really only true if you adopt America's wildly inclusive definition of middle class. L.A. county has the highest number of millionaire households in the country, but they still only account for 2-3% of the total population. The median household income is around $56,000.

I always pick omnipotence.

I'd be curious if this has ever worked. I know couples that have dated for years and never moved in together, but Jesus, it's hard for ME not to notice that this reads an awful lot like "I like being around him less than I used to and am unhappy with the conditions of our relationship, but I'm at that emotionally…

Agreed, and I think that's what makes the song more fun than a sermon and pretty unique in the literature. It's like cheating a neo-Nazi with your crooked three-card monte game: It makes for a good story at the bar later, but it's not like anybody learned anything.

Pro-Stars had Bo Jackson, Wayne Gretsky, and some other sports hero fighting crime with superpowers.

I think Raisins makes the most compelling point here, but the problem with a general "You don't know what the effects would be!" argument is that it's also true in the present. The homeless guy you offer a sandwich to might be a serial killer who otherwise would have died, and the guy you don't punch in the face at…

I have mixed feelings on it, but there's no question that the ambiguity of an already byzantine time travel plot is amped up considerably by having more than half of the important trips take place either off-screen or through flashback.

Like everyone, I loved films in school, but now that I'm a teacher, I can say with some confidence that no teacher who shows more than two of them in a semester really cares about getting it right, at least outside of a film class.

It's a play on fine "China," which is the traditional 20th anniversary gift.

I laughed at Gemma telling Tara that Jax wouldn't take betrayal when basically everyone he knows, including Gemma herself, has hid important truths or actively conspired against him at one point or another.

I thought about the Shield, too, and how it veered dangerously close to overusing the montage at 2-4 per season, but most of of them ended up at least being acceptable and a handful even managed powerful.

I like that Coulson's not having a full on emotional eruption every week. Network TV normally doesn't trust subtlety, so having Gregg underplay him a bit is arguably one of the few things that S.H.I.E.L.D. is actually doing differently. His conversation with Gunn and the firefighter are emotional without being…

I feel exactly the same way, but The Good Wife is far and away the best network drama on right now, with its best season ever. There's not even a close second. With Breaking Bad done and Mad Men and Treme on hiatus, I'd even rank it and Eastbound as the best overall shows currently airing anywhere, but there's more…

Yeah. None of that's really relevant to the point, but it's nice that you know that, I guess.

I was leery about the downvote, too, but I think it's mostly being used responsibly. I'm not saying it's never being used to express disagreement, but the conversations are still happening. In the case of posts that tend to draw massive amounts of them, people seem to have been restraining themselves to posts that…

It's the internet; everything's ratcheted up to 11. I HATE THIS GUY AND EVERYTHING HE STANDS FOR! translates to "Most of his recent movies have been bad, and nothing suggests that future efforts will turn that around."

They get turned in the 2nd episode, and then it's basically just Cheers but Norm orders a 19-year-old virgin every week.