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And strangely for her pseudo-goth / pseudo-punk look, she actually looks better the few times we see her in direct sunlight. Or maybe (and equally uncharacteristically) it's just her looking happy.

That is interesting. Basically she's Buffy and the rest are the Scoobies, who are arguably what made Buffy the greatest of the slayers.

The quick transition of the spiritual to violence manages to remain surprising throughout history.

Reading that, it occurs to me that Kala is a lot like Lucy from A Room With A View, or even the protagonist in Portrait Of A Lady. Their big foe isn't outside pressure (because that's circumstantially absent) but an unwillingness to admit that their priorities were wrong and to back out on something they said they'd…

I remember Lazytown because of the Li'l John remix. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Seems like there was some sort of game like "Schizophrenic or Bluetooth?", or maybe a tumblr or something. But they don't have to be mutually exclusive!

I think they deliberately made the paranoia a little overblown, along with them "praying for the death" of Rajan and his family, so that you don't know whether to categorize it with people protecting their spirituality against mundanism (a la Terry Gilliam movies) or traditionalists trying to make people conform to…

Great idea. That exact thing is done on the Canadian sci-fi show Continuum (cyborg lady cop doesn't need a bluetooth to talk to her controller, but gets one anyway because then everyone ignores her talking to herself).

My take was that Mom had hand-picked the hospital, so perhaps she shopped around the suburbs until she found one with the policies she wanted ("THIS HOSPITAL only admits family…")

I think the "4 Non Blondes? Perfect soundtrack for a lobotomy" line really helped strike that balance. And hey, we can all probably attest that being soulmates doesn't mean identical taste in culture.

Me too. Although, while V For Vendetta wasn't a big box office success it seems to have gained support in the meantime. imdb has it at 8.2, #145 movie of all time. Which shouldn't be taken literally but definitely means people like it (probably helped by subsequent political developments).

"Imagine that: eight bodies, one head."

My favorite parts of the first one were where it verged on being ALMOST honest and emotional, like the reading of the ring inscription or the trapped-together-going-cold-turkey sequence, rather than more obviously bad stuff, so I have a feeling I'll be enjoying this a lot.

I feel sort of two ways about aggressive female characters like that. On the one hand there is definitely a double standard. On the other, it is a fact that she's much less physically strong than him and that means that "situations reversed" would be a different situation. I think as long as she's prepared to face the…

When he said "What movie is that from?" he definitely jumped towards the top of the list.

Just finished ep 2, and the Bollywood thing works for me because it seems like every city is following the rules of its own genre (very much like the stories in Cloud Atlas). So, just as the cop who bucks the Chicago system is going to go through certain kinds of experiences, the Indian girl who doubts the man she's…

My first reaction was "Oh they got a Naveen Andrews type", but this was fairly quickly followed by "Oh no they actually got Naveen Andrews". Pretty ballsy given the inevitable Lost comparisons.

It's just too bad they didn't incorporate spectral Naveen Andrews into the dance. We know from Bride & Prejudice that he can do it. Though it might be too reminiscent of the Indian appearing on stage during the YMCA dance in Wayne's World 2.

Or lots of the Wachowskis' output, much as I love 'em.