My hunch is they're waiting to reveal that PB was Marcy's first friend post-Simon's descent into complete madness.

Oh yeah, agreed! I think there's some pretty apparent subtext in the Nice King episode that tackles the "Nice Guy" social construct, which definitely ties into a lot of what Braco was saying in this episode.

I too am so pleased that Adventure Time does such a great job of giving all its characters, regardless of…

Who was the voice of Braco? He sounded familiar but I couldn't place it. Also, was that Flame King doing the voice of the possessed Cinnamon Bun? I can't remember what Peppermint Butler called him (the 7th Shadow something something?) but presumably Flame King = dark lord so maybe it's the same guy.

Also I read the…

I don't feel like my single "like" is sufficient in appreciating how much I agree with your post, so please take this bouquet of blossoming likes to round that out. ❀✿❀

@Meander061:disqus Unimportant, but small discrepancy: in Watson's introduction he describes being shot in the shoulder. In another story it's his leg.

I'd love to see Joan learn to carry a gun. I reread the Holmes canon every year and it sometimes seems like every other story Holmes is saying to Watson, "Oh, could…

They wouldn't be able to call him "The Mandarin" without it turning into an Orientalist nightmare. Setting it up so it's actually a privileged white guy creating the entire racist caricature of a terrorist that we see in the movie is a brilliant move.


Agree to disagree—I really loved this film, I think more than the…

I think the way they did the Mandarin in this movie is literally the only way they could do it without being racist OR (and probably more importantly) offending their Chinese audience. I personally loooooved it, but a) I haven't read the comics so I don't have that connection with the source material (although my…

What if all the sort-of-forced Christmas references in this movie are so that when Cap 2 comes out, they have it be Christmas again to make it SUPER clear that the movies exist simultaneously? That's the only reason I can think of to have so many "HEY GUYS IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!!!!" things in this film.

My favorite part of this episode was how it included explain-y dialogue about what happened to crazy-terraform the earth, why "St. Louis's" buildings look the way they do in Defiance, and what happened to the geographical features around St. Louis, all of which I saw in comments here last week over and over again as…

80 percent of the gifs I see on Buzzfeed were created by Tumblr users, anyway. So if you check the Parks and Recreation tag on Tumblr during any time during the hour after the episode airs you'll find all the gifs your heart could possibly desire.

Man you are kiddin yourself if you think 1d fans don't want to have all kinds of sex with these boys. Stay out of their @ replies on Twitter is all I'm saying. I think it's 100% exactly what darkingsrock said, and that kind of marketing in America goes right back to The Beatles.

John Carter was made by one of Pixar's veteran directors, and a lot of the crew he worked with and people he consulted were Pixar animation people. The CGI in that can definitely be used as a prototype of what a Pixar live action film would look like. (I didn't see the movie so can't offer an opinion on said CGI.)

This is a fantastic, insightful review, especially the bit about Ice King and Marceline's respective stories being representative of the two ends of the Adventure Time spectrum, but I did kind of side-eye you for perhaps unintentionally saying that romance appeals more to girls than what Adventure Time already is (do…

You might be forgetting slavery?? There were many black people brought in by 1772, when slavery was abolished in Britain. They didn't just leave. They lived in slums and poor neighborhoods in the cities, but they were THERE, they had a culture, and they largely worked as servants. Maybe more to the point—the people of…

"there weren't many non-whites in GB at the turn of the last century" hahahahahahah dude come on.  But here, I'll play ball: Matthew is the VERY DEFINITION of privilege, and mentioning his race supports the rest of the paragraph's point, that everything has been dropped handily in his lap his entire life and we're…

Each season is 12 episodes and it is constructed like a film, with each episode having its own contained story that feeds into the larger construct of the plot. Both seasons have major character developments as well as mysteries that feed throughout. The problem with s2 was the mystery was a little too "whodunnit" and…

Great, great article, thanks Todd! One line in particular that struck me is "In Weinman’s estimation, if TV seasons eventually morph into one giant, super-long movie…". An example of this is, weirdly enough, Teen Wolf. The show has cinematography like a film, and it's shot like one long movie. Almost every episode…

The time lapse IS frustrating, and I have to seriously commend you for making these reviews interesting to read as someone who's already seen all of s3 + the special. Matthew's refusal of the money absolutely came across as self-righteous narcissism, (SPOILERS!!!!! SPOILERS SPOILERS) although I do find the ultimate…

Okay, or we have a show that follows the dynamics of a military academy as well as the government of United Earth, could very well have a cast of adults in addition to (remember) college-age students, could explore the human condition in a post-terrorist attacked society (which would directly mirror current real-world…

Okay, or we have a show that follows the dynamics of a military academy as well as the government of United Earth, could very well have a cast of adults in addition to (remember) college-age students, could explore the human condition in a post-terrorist attacked society (which would directly mirror current real-world…