Any Mormonism in Alvin Maker went over my born-Catholic, converted-Jew, really-atheist head, both when I read them in high school and when I reread them when I was 25. Homecoming I think I read back in high school, so maybe my adult self would have picked up on the Mormonism. I'm not sure allegory of a journey story…

I've read, shit, probably close to two dozen of his books, many in adulthood, and it's downright eerie how little his weird personal politics end up in them. Are the women a little ancillary? Of course, but have you read a book by a man lately? Are there absolutely no gay characters? Again, have you ever actually read…

Just, I mean, jesus fucking christ. This fucking country.

I've always looked at Richard as the most to blame in Lorelai's estrangement. I have reasons for this, but I can't fucking put anything into words right now, so maybe I'll come back when I'm not an idiot.

That's my problem with the twist: the court episode would be boring as fuck.

Juliette was not a damsel in distress in season 1. Here's a typical setup: Girl's in danger. Man rushes to save her. Gives her instructions ("Stay here!" "Run away!"). Girl disobeys. Girl caught. Man saves her for good. Mild chastisement.

I wonder about that, because he stabbed him, then punched him really hard. On TV, you don't really punch someone you've already stabbed fatally. The death blow is the last one, even if realistically the guy wouldn't bleed out for a few minutes. So I do wonder if Oliver did actually do the old "knock out the bad guy…

Don't ever compare me to that one. That piece of shit doesn't deserve the name "Byron." https://twitter.com/byronha…

I think "mythology," like on the X-Files, just refers to the serialized elements in a hybrid serial/episodic show, like the X-Files, or even something like How I Met Your Mother. So, using that definition, by this point Babylon 5 doesn't really have mythology anymore than Breaking Bad does. It just has its serial…

Or you can have a problem with the triangle (I literally explained to my non-watching wife "no one gives any fucks about those two") but still rather like the show. But it'd be better with no triangle.

One of those things is not actually a part of the film, though. This is like making fun of someone for typing a typo, catching it immediately, and correcting it before pressing post.

If this show runs long enough I wouldn't mind a plotline that revealed Michelleto was actually Satan. He hasn't exactly helped Cesare stay on the good path.

Good lord, your "from the future" reviews are pretty far in my past. Time travel! Mind blown.

The other character is 16 too, and Ginny repeatedly stated her reason for sleeping with him was that he was beautiful, not that he pushed her into it or because she thought it would make him like her. It avoided all the BS that denies that a ("good") girl might be the one interested in sex. She wanted to have sex with…

My wife pointed out that this show doesn't seem to have the actor who played Cappie, but the character himself.

I didn't think Thea misinterpreted it. I think she thought it was some other girl, was disappointed it was Laurel because of loyalty to her brother, and then got drunk and hit on Tommy. They did stay on her face weirdly long after the initial conversation, but didn't have any of the expressions you'd expect if she…

I didn't think Thea misinterpreted it. I think she thought it was some other girl, was disappointed it was Laurel because of loyalty to her brother, and then got drunk and hit on Tommy. They did stay on her face weirdly long after the initial conversation, but didn't have any of the expressions you'd expect if she…

They were pretty consistent with Ten's arrogance, abhorrence of violence, and astonishingly brutal vengeance. That's who he was: Nine was too scarred to be much of a threat to anyone, but Ten got over that. Ten will fuck you up. Eleven got over even that anger, and back to what the Doctor was probably more like before…

They were pretty consistent with Ten's arrogance, abhorrence of violence, and astonishingly brutal vengeance. That's who he was: Nine was too scarred to be much of a threat to anyone, but Ten got over that. Ten will fuck you up. Eleven got over even that anger, and back to what the Doctor was probably more like before…

The point of helping people who will die one day is as much a quandry for someone who's going to live 50 years as someone who will live 5 million. Should we not treat the sick because fuck it they're going to die one way or another? Just because real people aren't around t0 see everyone they know die doesn't mean most…