But would we really be interested in a heroine who lets a crying baby die of exposure and who ignores a friend's cry for help in the name of sensibility? Don't get me wrong, I was irritated as hell with Claire for her previous behavior (though even that carried a lot of weight — a desperate attempt to get back to her…

I missed that episode and was wondering why Hali got voted out rather than Jenn, when Jenn had been the target the week before (I think). Thanks for clarifying!

Still above the fold! (But not for much longer.)

Yeah, that's true enough. But Foggy's adorable!

Right? I was like, oh, Jenn just wants to hang with Hali at the Ponderosa!

"Little Miss Know-It-All" — oh fuck you, Dan.

No she definitely said something along the lines of, "The more I want to leave, the less likely they'll vote me out" — but she said it like it was a bad thing, not like it was her strategy.

That's interesting. So who's on the list of guys unlikely to win but likely enough to be voted to come back to bother putting on the ballot?

Yeah, there's no scenario in which giving Mike the idol — before tribal — makes more sense than just playing the idol, which means Mike shouldn't have even considered the possibility that it was a real idol (and I'm not sure he ever really bought it). Still, good fake idol; I did not expect Joe's jewelry-making…

Sigh. It's a cruel world. Thanks for the info, though!

I would agree except that mix of people of those demographics behaving similarly can be found in most slasher films. That . . . was kind of the point of Cabin in the Woods.

I'm glad you brought this up. Is there a way to play any Vampire the Masquerade games on a Mac?

The best thing about that complaint is that for each comparison involving the murderous father character in the movie, it says "(zombie version)."

He has one of those faces that is not going to age well — he's going to go full Skeletor eventually I suspect — but for now I am happy to keep looking at him.

Right? Penny's in pharmaceuticals, isn't she? Hell, I'm an academic, and my sister is in pharmaceuticals, and what she owes in taxes this year is the equivalent of my annual salary.

Final Fantasy X was my first Final Fantasy game (I KNOW!), so I think playing other games has deepened my appreciation for Tidus, and Yuna, and especially Rikku.

Oh Tidus. When I first played Final Fantasy X, roughly nine years ago, his whine "But I want everything" encapsulated everything I hated about his character. Playing it again recently, I actually found his Teenageness rather endearing.

I'm a little worried about the unresolved ending to the executive's arc — like it was established that she killed the former sorority sister, but also that she was mysteriously disappeared, and probably not by choice, right? Did they resolve that and I just missed it? Otherwise, I worry that the New Hotness might…

In Brienne's defense, she's probably feeling pretty self-loathing right now — offers to serve Renly, he dies; offers to serve Cat, she dies; offers to protect Sansa and Arya, can't find one, loses the other. Having an incompetent "squire" to mirror her own epic incompetence (in her eyes) can't be fun.

It's like that time my mom read some story about a slave who managed to buy his own freedom and died a millionaire and was like, "See?" NO MOM! BAD MOM!