He compared "Eye of the Tiger" to Shakespeare and made me laaaaaaaaaaaaaugh so hard.

I would like Much Ado a great deal better if that whole plot could just be excised. It  really, really doesn't translate well to a modern setting for me because the Hero plot is so archaic in its attitudes about virtue.

And don't forget Helo, who is also a boy.

He's also a spectacular dork, which does nothing but up the attractiveness factor. Goofball+intelligent=BINGO

There's also the very reasonable fact that some people - lots of people, as I have found- really don't like "maybes" in their fiction.

Yay someone besides me got cranky about it!

@avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus Yeah, I don't really have any problems with any of that. Sure, it's startling and upsetting from a "she's been The Hero for 6 years" angle, but I don't have any issues with a hero suddenly doing horrible things because she's mentally compromised.

I'm not sure it can be the "definitive" Whedon interview when I can't recall Angel actually being mentioned by name at all in the article.  Buffy, Firefly, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible - but not Angel.

Yeah, you guys, I love Normal Again. Love it.

Everyone's damn impatient. Plus the only "help" they can think of to give is "hey you should get a girl/boyfriend! That'll fix it!"  Uh-huh, and having a baby fixes marital problems.

I got this from a classmate in college once. I'm German-Irish, I look it, and I have bottle-red hair which makes me look even more Irish, and he did not seem to be joking at all.

Yes, this is a thing. Extroverts think that introverts just need a peppy pep talk to put themselves out there!  There are no such thing as "introverts", only people who are too anti-social to talk to other people.  If you talked to total strangers, you'd really love it and you'd see what you're missing!

I like that.

Ha, I should've scrolled down before I bitched about the people walking abreast!

What about the groups of three or more who walk abreast in hallways or on sidewalks, talking up all the space so you can't possibly get around them? Those people are the  worst.

Pedestrians who try to walk across cross the street at a non-designated spot and glare at me when I don't stop for them as they wait in the median.  Hey, jerk, there's not a crosswalk. I'm not obliged to stop in the middle of the damn road because you won't walk the extra half a block down to the streetcorner where…

Aw, you  changed your icon.  How will I get my quick-fix perving now?

Yes, that's what I'm doing this very second, currently swinging back. Or rather, sitting in a null state, which is better than the downswing but particularly good for any motivation.

Is "raw" a recipe?

HERETIC.