aww sad to hear the french wasn't up to par with the german. Though in my mind I'm mainly picuting christopher waltz in these scenes and i feel like i should rewatch the movie soon, so my great impression of the german scenes might very well just be Waltz, who is an incredible actor.

why is it so horrible for the audience to have to fill in the blank spots? most of my favorite stories end with ambiguity. It gets me thinking about myself and the world sourrounding me much harder then clear endings. I don't want to be told anything, I want to discover it in myself.

yes, Yes Yes YESSS!!! (embarrising public orgasm follows).

thats the great thing about art though. I think thats excactly how it should work and i very much prefer this ending and the sopranos, to the ending of breaking bad. So why do you think to presume that asking people to figure it out for themselves is not exactly what makes great art for at least some of the audience?…

your observation was only objective on the basis that art can't have a world changing effect. that assumption in itself is not objective, which just goes to show why i believe people touting their own objectiveness are always very questionable and more often than not complete bullshitters.

getting people to think about a piece of art and think of their own interpretation? sure sounds like it should be the point of any kind of art, including dramas. I'm sure somewhere along the way there will be a "cliffnotes" mad men site or something, so you could wait untill then to interpret the finale. But an ending…

I actually think Mad Men takes the trophy on this one, and I love the sopranos. But for me Mad Men has every show beat.

That would be a very interesting inventory: Best scenes directed in a tongue foreign to the director.
As a german I have to say I find all the german scenes in inglourious basterds to be very well done, but i don't know french ( I chose latin in school, just to spite my father), so I think tarantino at least deserves…

ha got you beat by 12 mins :)
But yeah I think thats the most interesting way to take the rat bite in my opinion.

I think the consequence might be that the rat bite worked as a sort of vaccine, making him immune to being a zombie. Would be the way I would take that story anyway. It doesn't have to be found out quickly though.

So i have an idea about the rat bite. I think its gonna work like a vaccine, making Ravi immune to zombie scratches ect. That also gives the show the possibility of making liv and major an actual couple somewhere along the way.

Ok so this is a reply to not this singular comment, but rather to a lot of your comments in this article. I read a few hundred but couldnt resist commenting anymore, so take from it what you will. I agree with your sentiment on most of the comments. Lots of people love saying they disagree with something, but once the…

The internet sure is a weird place. For a complete stranger to have such an affect on me, that I am actually holding back tears, in a post that so few other people will ever see. Your post is really helping to battle this fear right now.
I'll try to keep it in mind, for when these thoughts do come back to haunt me.
Tha…

I already posted a reply to you comment, but i think it never got posted. So here I go again, I just want to thank you. I'm moving to Berlin in about two weeks, and a fear i've had is that once I am in Berlin I will only think of the city as " not anywhere near New York". I'm from small town germany and have since…

I was in berlin a couple of monthes ago and watched a german version of the musical and it had the Schneider/schultz subplot. But the songs were all in german and I think it even had a version of tomorrow belongs to us in it, so i think they basically mixed the two together.

I think that shifts the blame very much from the people who were actually responsible for the nazis through their direct actions (or inactions as it were) to the people who were among the biggest enemies of the nazis. It sounds alot like a historical version of the wifebeater logic. Look what you made me do, made me…

Read the book "our Street" by jan petersen. it was written write at the time of the nazi takeover and is the real life story of the berlin communist underground and their work against the nazis. It was published in 1935 after they smuggled the manuscript outside of germany. Its a very interesting read, written very…

and the very possible imprisonment of an innocent teenager.

Yeah it isn't the same thing, I'm just saying his guilt is pretty irrelevant if the evidence is as lacking as it is. He should never be in jail unless new evidence suddenly turns up. His case has so much possible doubt, otherwise we all would have never even heard of his case, because if there wasnt so much possible…

I think its pretty damn obvious that the prosecution didn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he did it. I still think that that should be the standard, doubly so when dealing with minorities, because the american judicial system has a horrid track record of wrongly incarcerating minorities.
In general, I'd rather…