As must have been the research/fact checking department (I'm reading Lynn Povich's book about being in that department at Newsweek, and the lawsuit engendered then).

As must have been the research/fact checking department (I'm reading Lynn Povich's book about being in that department at Newsweek, and the lawsuit engendered then).

@avclub-22eda830d1051274a2581d6466c06e6c:disqus I say stick with it, and I think most agree. It does have its low points, but I think they're far outnumbered by the high points. Remember too that it was written over the course of many, many years. So, you can take as many years to finish it - there's no hurry.

@avclub-22eda830d1051274a2581d6466c06e6c:disqus I say stick with it, and I think most agree. It does have its low points, but I think they're far outnumbered by the high points. Remember too that it was written over the course of many, many years. So, you can take as many years to finish it - there's no hurry.

My biggest beef: beautiful women are best served as helpless doomed captives, or helpers.

My biggest beef: beautiful women are best served as helpless doomed captives, or helpers.

Stick with it til the end. There's a lot of warranted criticism of parts of it, and It definitely has its low points, but its high points are near-transcendent.

Stick with it til the end. There's a lot of warranted criticism of parts of it, and It definitely has its low points, but its high points are near-transcendent.

The thing I was most afraid of going in was that I wouldn't be able to enjoy it because the comments have all been so laudatory. I don't think that's why I didn't care for it much at all, though. I didn't think the women characters were treated as shabbily as they have been in movies like "Live and Let Die" and "Man…

The thing I was most afraid of going in was that I wouldn't be able to enjoy it because the comments have all been so laudatory. I don't think that's why I didn't care for it much at all, though. I didn't think the women characters were treated as shabbily as they have been in movies like "Live and Let Die" and "Man…

Some of the names in "Skyfall" seemed like callbacks to earlier Bond movies too, which I thought was very subtle and clever. Ralph Fiennes' "M" stands for "Mallory", for instance, which was the name of the Scottish nobleman that Bond impersonates in OHMSS. And there's a character called "Severine", which was a name…

Some of the names in "Skyfall" seemed like callbacks to earlier Bond movies too, which I thought was very subtle and clever. Ralph Fiennes' "M" stands for "Mallory", for instance, which was the name of the Scottish nobleman that Bond impersonates in OHMSS. And there's a character called "Severine", which was a name…

Really? Not even after "How big are  you? I mean tall, how tall are you?" I would probably never have thought "Do you like pink" and "Do you eat" had any other meaning, except for the "how big" one.

Really? Not even after "How big are  you? I mean tall, how tall are you?" I would probably never have thought "Do you like pink" and "Do you eat" had any other meaning, except for the "how big" one.

That one, I definitely got. I don't think it registered as a double entendre, even, it was so obvious.

That one, I definitely got. I don't think it registered as a double entendre, even, it was so obvious.

Maybe dumb - but you should be proud, since standing up for him was a very nice thing to do.

Maybe dumb - but you should be proud, since standing up for him was a very nice thing to do.

Lois Lane interviewing Superman: "Do you…eat?" Only took me about thirty years to get.

Lois Lane interviewing Superman: "Do you…eat?" Only took me about thirty years to get.