Hm, I saw the message being more "dictating what people do with stuff is bad" than "stuff is bad". The final act of The Lego Movie is basically the protagonists turning the devices of oppression into tools of liberation, right? What with the "Where Are My Pants" set being used to rally the populace, and all. Wouldn't…

Phrasing!

Eh, I think that's dismissing it a bit easily, but then again I'm a weird guy who suspects it has to do with most people not inherently viewing their own position as privileged, and so view attempts to level the playing field as attacks upon their position in the world. It's certainly not good, and I would agree that…

Oh, I absolutely agree that boys might understand girls better if they were exposed to more texts about girls growing up. I'm terribly sorry I came across as suggesting otherwise. That was most certainly not my intent, though I see a few ways it might have seemed so.

I think there's a tendency for men to assume that women are so drastically different from men that there's pretty much no overlap. This leads men to assume that stories about women must be about things like motherhood, patriarchal oppression, and breasts, because surely women relate to things in a completely different…

See, the funny thing is this isn't just about strong female protagonists. In fact, the word strong doesn't appear in the document. This is about female protagonists in general. This about female speaking roles! This isn't just the Ripleys of today, but the women screaming "THANK YOU SUPERMAN" of today, and the women…

I would certainly watch it over Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. Maybe not over the other shows you list, but I don't have to choose one of the other these days. It's nice.

Maybe Masi Oka will inexplicably decide he'd rather stay on Hawaii 5-0, even though I have no idea how that show continues to exist?

Affection for the source material and curiosity about how it'll be handled in a different format?

Oh, Berlusconi…

He's made quite a career out of playing rather creepy murderers, to the point that my entire family was certain he would turn out to be evil in Burn Notice.

Nah, it's not Boston. The guy's a Vermonter, so I assume Hanks is trying to capture that.

Yeah, there's some fascinating scholarship looking at similarities between Ancient Egyptian praise works and passages of the Old Testament.

So they are going to become emotional and metaphorical bridges?

@avclub-615e85318c18d18b6901b69196261c5e:disqus What do you mean by "members of the upper classes" in this context? Chaucer, Milton, Goethe, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley were all children of influential people (such as prominent businessmen, lawyers, or politicians), for example, though none of them…

Hm, not sure about that plan to build a more connected universe. Seems like something which would work better in a television show than a film.series. I mean, I guess it could work, but it feels more likely to just dilute the focus of the film. Or perhaps make them incomprehensible to people who haven't seen every…

One choked a woman to death on Law & Order: Classic, I think. First time I heard the "wild sex" defense.

They also air Farscape repeats, which is good to see.

This makes me wonder what happened to that Paradise Lost film they were making.

It's pretty bad. Lots of scheming this season, but because there's pretty much no one the audience cares about, it's really toothless.