Picked up and started a reread of my favorite Austen, which is Emma. It's weird I've only read it once when I've read P&P almost three times. Why? Maybe because P&P is ridiculously entertaining, and it just has the perfect plot.

Here is my theory:

My midnight screening audience applauded during the credits sequence twice, both times when Joss Whedon's name came up. It made my heart grow three sizes like the Grinch.

If Coulson isn't dead, then that kind of blows my mind in 2 ways:

Yes, in the second post-credits scene, I love how Hawkeye has his leg up on Black Widow's chair, maybe because it needed to be elevated? was injured? but that level of silent physical comfort in each other's space speaks volumes about their relationship.

See, I liked XM:FC but I found its thematic underpinnings problematic. Because they hired such a charismatic actor/powerhouse for Magneto and Fassbender played the shit out of his role, I really thought the film skewed philosophically Magneto's way. You walk out of the theater and think: wow, humanity does need to be…

I felt my gorge threatening to rise even reading this article. So yeah.

Well for me, self-important often equates to boring. It didn't help that the action sequences are just not very exciting.

ugh, if not liking TDK makes me a troll, then you all can find me under my bridge.

Next to Matt Damon in last year's Adjustment Bureau, she didn't look that skinny. Next to Jason Segel, ehhhh. Let's just say I doubt she lost a whole bunch of weight in between movies.

I love Band of Outsiders but beyond that, I've never really gotten into Godard. I've seen Weekend, Breathless and Masculin Feminin and none of those movies worked for me, sadly. There's a brilliant emotional core to Band which I've never found in any of his other work.

Oh my god, those Black Jewels books are ridiculous prurience shoehorned awkwardly into fantasy genre. It's basically dirty, dirty fantasies in novel form. I believe I skimmed the first book for shits and giggles.

Because if you are airing a TV show on network television, you need to have a mainly white cast or the general American populace wouldn't identify with the characters. I'm non-white and I've no illusions about why I don't often see people of color on TV.

The buzz from twitter and early screenings have been almost unanimously good.

I think losing their pants at the box office scares them more. Neither female-focused, comic-based superhero movie has been successful: so fuck you, Elektra and Catwoman. Especially Catwoman.

It got about 3-5 million people watching at various periods in its run, which were very good numbers for the emerging WB network. In fact, I believe that with those ratings, BtVS would be a hit for the CW today, or any cable channel.

The NYTimes interview with Joss had an illuminating peek into what he wanted Dollhouse to be and what it turned into:

It's been a few years since I read it, and my memory is increasingly sieve-like, but I've always thought the strange (and wonderful) thing about GE is the best parts of the novel are the women's stories.

Thanks! It's a supposedly fun thing I'm never going to do ever again (thank God I have one sister).

It was a logistical nightmare and that's without actually cooking or baking or any of that nonsense.