There were some bad ideas that went into Pulaski (chiefly the whole "isn't it cute how she's bigoted against Data" thing), but she was still a great character who did interesting things on the show. It was interesting to see a character who pushed against Picard, and whose worldview was completely different from his…

For the record, it snows in Jerusalem at least once every winter. Usually it doesn't pile up, but every few decades there's a massive storm with serious snowdrifts. The last one was in 2013:

Freeform is still part of ABC, right? My sense is that ABC is done with Marvel (or maybe Marvel is done with ABC). I'd be surprised if the planned Cloak and Dagger show on Freeform actually happens.

It's been shocking to me how few comments along these lines I've seen. Pill is a bit younger than me, but that music video was defining for a lot of girls my age, so it's kind of surprising to see what looks like a film-length version of it that doesn't even tip the hat.

She didn't "badmouth" the movie. She made the perfectly reasonable comment that the film's premise was kind of sexist. Which it is, and which was noted by many reviewers and commenters at the time. In an industry where Jared Leto gets to send dead animals to his castmates and still be considered unemployable, what…

Hillary's a woman. She starts with the disadvantage of everyone assuming from the outset that she's frail and delicate, and having to prove otherwise (even though most of the women I know who have gotten to be her age are powerhouses who get more done in a day than I do in a week at half their age). I think Trump's…

Unfortunately, you still get some people who try to justify Polanski raping a child by pointing to his (significant and awful) personal tragedies. I mean, I'm willing to accept that going through tragedy after tragedy doesn't usually make people nicer (though, for the record, there have been more than a few Holocaust…

I think Mr. Robot is very clearly the sort of show that is kept on no matter how dismal its ratings are. Especially on a channel like USA, that simply doesn't have other critically-acclaimed, award-winning, zeitgeist properties. See also The Americans and UnREAL.

I find myself feeling really nervous about the We Have Always Lived in the Castle movie. Given how Hollywood works, it's really hard for me to imagine an adaptation that doesn't go the route of "Charles must rescue Constance from evil Merricat."

It's almost as if she's an actress, and capable of conveying different character traits as the role requires.

RR doesn't have a right to the use of regicide in literature. But he
does have the copyright on the specific event that occurred

No, that's what the law is telling you.

I think the burden of proof is pretty high in "you stole my idea!" lawsuits, precisely because ideas aren't copyrightable. "The brave knight is killed by the evil king" is sufficiently broad that I probably wouldn't have a case against anyone who stole it from me. It would have to be something more along the lines…

On the contrary, I'd say that my example is perfect, precisely because of the book/show situation. If Game of Thrones's copyright is protected despite the fact that it's derivative of Martin's books, then my description of an episode is also protected by copyright, despite the fact that it's derivative of the episode.

Tell that to fans of the show before the episode aired. Hell, my original example was a description of the Red Wedding, but I thought that might get some spoilerphobic commenter all enraged.

Copyright law doesn’t protect ideas; it protects certain fixed expressions of ideas.

Not to mention mellowing with age. The show tended to hold up Roger as an image of what Don would eventually turn into, and he went through some serious changes as he aged and as the culture changed around him.

As I recall, a further contributing factor was the fact that the arson investigator swore up and down that the fire had to have been intentional. And then it turned out that arson investigation is a crock without a bit of scientific rigor behind it - which was, unfortunately, too late for Willingham.

Well, there shouldn't be. Assaulting a coworker should be grounds for immediate firing.

I don't mind that they don't kill anyone. It's the constant teasing about "WHO WILL DIE??!!???1!!!!!" that I find insufferable. We all know that no one is going to die, and that if a major character does die it'll just be to return at a later movie. Quit with the stupid teasing - all that gives you is the…