You don't know how many exes of mine turned out to be game. It's a Risk, but that's Life.

Sometimes bad things have to happen to characters, male or female, for them to grow. Such as dying. Buffy goes through a lot of awful stuff, dying twice, etc. But the show wouldn't be as memorable or groundbreaking if it didn't push the boundaries of what its characters could go through. In Fred's case, she got one of…

This didn't seem to me like the 'girlfriend in the fridge' trope, because it wasn't just done to make Wes more tragic. It was also an important step in Fred's arc, too. I mean, sure, she's not Fred per se anymore, but it's kind of (exactly like) Dollhouse. I mean she's a whole new person living in someone else's body,…

yeah, I agree. Fred is a lovable character, but Illyria is a really interesting character. From the moment of her birth, she's thrust into this tragic, painful situation: having to adjust from being omnipotent to kind of outdated; knowing that your existence killed someone beloved; coping with human feelings; the…

me too… <3

hey, I thought this was a really great episode. Why would you give it a B-/C+? Just curious, because I can't think of anything wrong with it.

@avclub-c54c561b74163f70a5572998e3955227:disqus I think rather than a direct Bush parody, Bobby Newport is played super-dumb because it makes it more frustrating and hard-to-win when her opponent is so obviously flawed and no one notices. A lot of Parks and Rec is about how the masses are just so wrong sometimes, but…

no, marth was the sexy one. And Roy was more slow-moving, right?

that's very poetic, dating sites.

you really are a dumby!

I don't think the show pretends to have wise protagonists. Most of the jokes are at the girls' expense (the joke is that they're saying dumb things). However, it shows them as essentially intelligent people who need to mature.

I live in NYC, and my social circle (it's a pathetically small circle) is mostly made up of white people. If they made a TV show of my life I'd probably be getting as much critique as "Girls". There are a few black people on my floor at work, but not in my department. So just a cameo here and there. One of my bffs is…

what a long strange trip it's been

really random, yeah, I misread it on the DVR as vagina pacific too.

Yeah, me too. It's just, Joan and Lane have the best heart-to-hearts. The show had already planted a shipping seed… now it's teasing us.

"shounen"

I read some article (can't refer to it, I think it was NY Times magazine) that was talking about the YA ghetto— the fact that books written with a younger demographic in mind are not really accepted as 'real' books. The author surmised that nowadays, books like "To Kill a Mockingbird" would be marketed as YA. Which…

@avclub-2d0cca95ad6a2061d208d765e79af478:disqus oh my god! I always assumed because 'sturm und drang' is a German expression. Apparently Durmstrang is Sweden or Norway?

same reason that in Michael Bay's movies, the meteor/bomb/whatever is heading RIGHT TOWARD NEW YORK CITY. The story is set in an area where … the story is going to happen.

First of all, if you paid attention to Professor Binns you'd know that the magical world has had many wars, including the Goblin rebellions.