I have a weird love/hate relationship with Cumberbatch. I love film and so as an artist I love him a lot. But the weird fan fixation (which admittedly, most fan fixations could be termed weird) always makes me want to never see him again. I guess what I'm saying is, I'm both weird and I like the word weird.

No sir, that is a perspective and not the common historic or colloquial definition found in a dictionary or even in common usage. There's not much to argue here.

Scopes Monkey Trial anyone? Politics have always heavily influenced curriculums but there have been brief periods where I would argue generations had higher aspirations per capita for what science would do which influenced how people studied it.

Honestly, that is your political viewpoint. There is no doubt that the American upper class stayed largely intact (as long as you don't count the loyalists murdered in the process) however it did sever the British ruling class and landed gentry from exerting any legal authority. In addition, while similar the…

Yes/No? I think there are people in genre and especially generationally where there is an expectation of available information. If you are socialized to expect them, they are a part of your viewing experience and therefore lacking them is negative.

So do most countries that fight them. As is pointed out, after the fact successful revolutions are looked at as victories, not defeats. I can acknowledge the value of the American Revolution while acknowledging the torture of loyalists, greed of American merchants, and perpetuation of the slave trade.

It's probably taste. Everyone in GOTG is doing some form of camp or silliness. People love Farscape but people often criticize it's actors for bad acting. Pratt to me IS Ben Browder doing John Crichton (without the dread). It's not so much bad acting, its just that people constantly delivering one liners or the…

I've never really understood this logic. Here's the thing: every show in sci fi suffers the same affliction. That 1 million pound per budget Who has is equivalent or exceeds to the per episode budget of Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Enterprise, Farscape, Babylon 5, and probably Buffy before that cast could demand…

Not sure why, but orientation seems to be tricky with the public and actors. I've seen people get annoyed when LGBT actors play straight roles and I've seen people get mad when straight people play LGBT roles. It may just be that people overly analyze when they know that's the situation and blame the actors for what…

I think the honest truth is, Whedon has dealt with women ass-kicking protagonists that take a punch and punch back harder for so long that the idea of doing it in pursuit a turn probably seemed acceptable to him.

Hate it. Hate. Granted I can accept that I'm the minority in this but a tiny phone that fits in my jean pocket as I'm walking around is far preferable to something I have to stick in a bag. It's why I've preferred the iPhone over the Galaxy. Honestly if there's no size difference, I'll probably have to revisit my…

They could maximize their current strategy that way, but not maximize their potential sales. The only way (and this might be valid but I doubt it) you could maximize your sales through targeting one racial demographic is if both groups are so polarized that there is zero overlap in which case you have to target the…

Odd addition I suppose for a show that only takes place on Earth in two episodes, but the emotional toll that is so visible on Crichton manages to allow the show to sell peril without a big MacGuffin ever pointed at the planet. The guy can't even be happy getting to return to Earth for any length of time. He's too…

I guess I'll never quite get that reading of ROTJ. I mean I get the complaint that the Empire ballsed things up royally, but that criticism makes it sound like what happened is what they should have been planning for.

I guess my question is, what are are the flaws you're referring to? The game is so old now, other than the hats though I don't see people complaining and those weren't there originally.

I guess I don't get how this is somehow different from the entirely-throughout-history distrust of the US government (or central authority) that has always been present in American culture. Before this it was Iraq. Before Iraq there was Clinton's misadventures in Somalia. Before that there was the Iran Contra…

I guess I'd be more inclined to support Grillo-Marxauch IF there were more examples of investment bombing in an intricately plotted series. Very few people have tried it. JMS always had his "outs" for every character and he used them on multiple occasions. The Spencer example is probably a bad one if only because…

Honestly the writing is what did it for me more than the acting. Drax in filmed GoTG was very much a character idea that sort of plugged in to the plot to make it go. I loved Gunn's script, but like Hawkeye from the Avengers he's sort of there to deliver a few character traits and create plot points. He feels less…

I won't give you flack, but I'd say the creator of a fictional object can't create the rules of the fictional object by saying it. It's a bit weird, but then it IS a story about something that doesn't happen in real life.

This is one of those things that because it's David Fincher AND because the studio had him filming before the script was even finished, I give him a pass. The problem was the studio meddling (like Terminator 3) and essentially trying to wipe the slate to churn out another picture. It makes no sense, but filming…