That's fair. It definitely does a great job at telling the adventurous story of its central characters in this tumultuous time. I just think it has a few sharper corners than some people seem to admit.

I'll take issue with that pacing argument. ATLA does a lousy job of setting up concepts for their finales, and the third season spends too much time in flavor country when there's supposed to be a sense of urgency to things. Too many episodes in book 3 fail to contribute something meaningful that we don't already…

Hey, it's a name some people have, presumably

"I'll be there in five minutes!"

"Mexican Jewish Cultural Festival" is the song that won my heart.

In first grade, I think I was watching Sailor Moon, or at least I had a passing familiarity with it.

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I also grew up in a homogeneous ares. My parents were pretty good about not ever telling racist jokes or using slurs, so I didn't really conceive the depth and breadth of racism until I was eight or nine. I always thought racism was just people being jerks sometimes, not a pervasive force that just swallows lives.

Uh, this is a pretty classy production, we're not just hopping on whatever aural fad crops up. We're aiming at something timeless and evocative here.

With a sax-&-synth score!

I assumed that he managed to talk the dinosaur down, and they went on to have a fulfilling friendship, solving mysteries, and generally having a grand old time.

I don't think the movie vilifies the father for wanting to make serious models. It vilifies him for insisting that there's only one way to go about having fun with this toy.

My favorite joke in the show is actually the policeman tacking "And misrepresenting the weight of livestock." onto the list of charges. It's a perfect payoff to a dark joke.

I don't care much for tattoos. The idea of putting someone else's art on my body seems queer, especially in such a permanent way.

My personal weirdest is probably wrists and ankles. Not doing anything to them, not ropes or anything, i just like looking at a good set. The lines flow a certain way, and there's a real elegance to the form and function of it all that doesn't necessarily pump me all tumescent, but it definitely puts me in an…

I think I'd prefer a more serious trilobite drama, thank you very much. Like maybe a trilobite single mom is just trying to raise her kids, but it turns out, that's a little more complicated than we all imagined for trilobites.

Frankly, I'm baffled by this post.

I'm not a huge fan either. When she's on the panel, she contributes only the occasionally interesting anecdote. I get that her background provides some more perspective, but she's neither funny enough nor compelling enough on screen to justify giving her the seat.

Yeah, I like it when the questions are more confrontational and less 'zany'. I'd rather see smart people challenged on their deeply held opinions, even when I agree with them.