The actor on Alphas was Gary Bell. He actually prepared by hanging around with autistic people and asking professionals.

The problem tho, is that it isn't just "I don't like that." It's "This shit is stereotypical and offensive." It isn't a case where someone is being "oversensitive" (a really stupid meme in itself.)

I want to throw in a few stray observations of my own:

I havent seen this but I should note that Wired did not publish until 1993 or so.

Let me reiterate the pleasure others expressed in seeing these reviews again.

I am saddened by that. What happened? Bad agent? He wasn't bad in the Doctor Who/ Torchwood role, but then that was pretty much the only thing I have seen him in.

Is this Faking It the same one where a few years back they had a guy who was a beer expert try his hand at being a sommelier?

Yes, they do, but there's slight difference in Canada I suspect, because in New York (for instance) winter can be pretty gray and snowy and wet. Whereas Toronto has more of those subzero, so-bright-you-need-sunglasses days. The PNW just gets wet, wet, wet. I lived south of there — Bay Area — for a couple of yers and…

Well, realistically, one of the things that's happening has to do with how humans are wired.

s'ok, I think I was getting triggered, as the kids like to say these days.

Sorry about coming off as condescending. But I see this all the time and again, think about the premises of the question. There's a real world out there where you can see the consequences (or lack thereof), you know? It just reveals the kind of ignorance of how people lead their lives that bugs the shit out of me. It…

I kind of got that, it's just no end of irritating to me that people who ought to know better trot out deeply stupid and ignorant stereotypes. And sometimes those stereotypes are implicit in the kinds of hypotheticals people bring up. They see a religion that is even slightly unfamiliar and fall back on images and…

That would depend on the work environment. Very devout Orthodox aren't allowed to be in certain situations with women by themselves, but it isn't like being Orthodox makes you stupid and robot-like. Given that Orthodox Jews do manage to live in various communities and get along with people I would think that would be…

See above. I have never, ever, ever seen a religious Jew or Muslim refuse to handle stuff at the cashier in any store, and I live in a place where there are lots of both. People who say stuff like that really just don't know much about either religion or its rules as expressed in day to day life.

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People who use examples like handling food (yes I am treating your question semi-seriously) have IMO obviously never actually met a devout Jew or Muslim.

I never saw either play you reference — but I am probably only a bit younger than you. I'd be interested to see this because where I lived was at the periphery of the epidemic in some ways — Boston and upstate NY — but my sister went to NYU and was in the arts program, and one of the grad school professors in my…

I will go further and say that a lot of folks forget that the whole Sox-Yankees thing is very recent. Most of the time when the Sox were good the Yankees were not. I mean, throughout the 1960s the Red Sox were not all that good and the Yankees tended to the top of the standings, I think. I suppose the biggest rivals…

Maybe it's a sign of getting older, but apropos of Marah Eakin. I will certainly listen to new music when it comes out, but speaking as a fortysomething I feel to things strongly: It is no longer age-appropriate for me to be trying to keep up with the latest in pop music; it's just sort of pathetic. I like a lo of new…

@avclub-9f49ffc35e539aeccecf06cca7b85981:disqus also — You're correct that learning to fight as a knight was no points-fencing. But apropos of the discussion between Arya and the Hound, it does bring up the issue of different fighting "tools" for different situations. Ser Jorah has a similar discussion with one of the…

I note they don't have the dragons from the Anne McCaffrey books either. Too bad…