Seriously?

There is a massive difference between people who are Christians and Christians who are even the slightest bit fundamentalist. The latter are creepy and sick and typically right-wingers and bigots (not just against gays and other religions, but in many cases against racial minorities and poor people too - which is to…

That's how I felt about it, and I also thought it was a nice change from his desire to entirely subvert every aspect of Judeo-Christian theology.

OK, yeah, that makes sense. That's … actually entirely true. I guess I forgot about that little gap in moral logic.

What confuses me, though, is what role do the raggedy survivors living at the base of the Citadel play in this society?

OK, that makes sense. I was confused, because a sort-of similar thing happens to Lyra when she and Will kiss. It's the beginning of adolescence and the end of childhood, and from then on the alethiometer no longer works for her effortlessly and naturally as it did before. Her sexual awakening is the "eating the apple"…

How, exactly? It's been awhile since I've seen it, but I don't recall anything particularly out of character about it in terms of TNG or Picard. The problem was that it seemed like an over-glorified episode (and a pretty middling episode at that) rather than a proper feature film, but I don't recall anything being…

"telling kids that having healthy adolescent sexual curiosities is a bad thing"

I think what's really missing from Snyder's 'Watchmen' is the stripping away of stylization from a heavily stylized genre. That's what led to a lot of the drama in the original story: the inherent absurdity of a world where men and women in brightly-colored costumes beating up "bad guys."

*Finny

Random Tim Burton 'Alice in Wonderland' opinion that I'm going to share here because why not: if the Mad Hatter was going to be played by any of Burton's cast of regulars, it should have been Timothy Spall, because his face looks a bit like John Tenniel's original illustration of the character. And Johnny Depp just…

"Punching down," as I understand it, refers to mocking people who are socially un-privileged and vulnerable to abuse and persecution.

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"A total clustercuss"

https://xkcd.com/75/

Those clothes look almost as outlandish and alien as anything that was ever worn on the show. The 70s, man …

Honestly, Into Darkness is not a particularly bad film and it's really about as solid as most of the other Trek films (which is largely because Trek isn't usually as strong on the big screen as it is in it's native medium, but still).

Bourne didn't ruin bond. If anything, Bourne saved Bond from the kind of silly hackiness that you're so enthusiastically condemning here.

Perhaps it's like that one rather disturbing episode of "Bojack Horseman" …

In all seriousness, though, the Nazis were very staunchly pro-life, at least when it came to "Aryan" fetuses.

Ironically, in British English, the word "Tory" refers to conservatism.