Where this is really helpful is that with the 20 min turn around time, you could test potential partners before you even got down to business. You take someone back to your place, swab, and then chill out or engage in a little making out while the test does it thing. Once you get the results and they are clean, you…

Humanity, putting pussy on a pedestal for 40,000 years.

One thing that I really liked about The Avengers advertising is that they actually did a really job of not ruining the big fight scene at the end in the trailers. What you assumed was the big finish in the trailers, the scene where Iron Man "brings the show to them", was actually a scene that came right before the big…

Extrapolating is fun!

Oh yeah, got her mixed up with Olivia's niece.

So exactly how did Fetus Ella survive while Olivia was temporarily dead?

Charlie, I take back everything I said about Fringe doing a good job plotting out their seasons in the Falling Skies article. This season flew the porcupine in a big way, and these last two episodes were incredibly meh, especially when there were so many interesting story threads they could have pursued with the setup…

Fringe might have been making some stuff up around the beginning of season 1, but somewhere around the middle of that season through the end of S3 they really seemed to know where they were going with the war between universes plot. It all went off the rails a bit in S4, but overall I think they did a great job in the…

Yeah, nothing inspires confidence in viewers than the confirmation that the show runners have absolutely no clue where they want to take the show over the course of several seasons. Guys, go watch some Babylon 5 or the first three seasons of Fringe and see how you're supposed to plan a multi-year story arc.

All the pieces of my ATM machine are finally falling into place.

I actually grabbed a digital copy of the first Avengers comic from 1963 over the weekend. In that story the Hulk was thinking and talking like he was no less intelligent than Ben Grimm, and he seemed to have pretty good control over himself. If anything, the completely out of control Hulk is a new addition to the…

"They wouldn't put a second scene in at the very end of the credits. Go ahead and leave after the first one."

I'm not really even sure how you would make ATMOM rated R anyway. There's no language and nudity in the original story, and there is little violence outside of some Elder Things waking up going on a rampage and some mutant penguins getting munched by a Shoggoth. Since the fear in the original was mainly existential…

I'm sorry, but if I don't have the option to hide my income from the IRS, I'm not going to give some college kid the option to under-report their income. I pay what I owe and expect everyone else to do the same.

Just wait until she starts teaching the lifecycle of wasps and the students find out that chestbursters are real in the insect world. Nature is scary as hell sometimes.

MINOR SPOILER:

You don't need to see the other movies to follow the story, but I think they are important to see beforehand because The Avengers does a great job of moving forward the individual stories of each of the characters started in their stand alone movies, as well as some of the plot threads like the Tesseract and the…

It was hilarious. I think this was the extra scene they shot after the premiere, right?

We seriously need some heavier booster rockets. I'm sick and tired of these missions taking forever to get out to the outer solar system because they have to spend years doing multiple gravity assists to get up enough velocity to make it out there. It shouldn't take 8 years to get to Jupiter. It should be more like…

I've haven't read the books, so all of this my be proven wrong in time, but I always took this exchange at face value with Varys: