As my first introduction to James Marsters, that episode will always be bloody brilliant

It was more unique at the time. It was broadcast about a year after The Dark Knight, so "dark and gritty" hadn't taken over yet.

I loved her so much. She deserved better.

I bet this is because Capaldi is less crushable to teenagers than Matt Smith was and they want to keep hitting that demographic.

Those moves are all in the Steven Universe mobile RPG, which the TV animators designed. I got a thrill out of seeing them on the show too.

It wasn't meant jokingly? Policy-wise and interpersonally, I'm a strong feminist and gleeful lesbian: pretty much as far from meninist honey badger as you can get. But because I yearn to be better at being butch, I unexpectedly discover myself hating on stereotypically feminine traits and thinking they're weak or dumb…

Amen. I'm a masculine-leaning girl, and I need more reminders that gender fluidity is good both ways, cause I can actually be anti-feminine verging on misogynistic.

Also, it drives home that Steven is just as much a Crystal Gem as a human. It shows that because he's half Gem and was raised by Gems, he doesn't interact with gender as a strict binary.

I get frustrated with this too, but it's also hard to do much more in 15 minute episodes. I'm yearning for a cohesive film-length extension

Really strange to see someone comment exactly what I was thinking under my name. Tanners unite!

Me neither! Good to know someone got a major life achievement ;)

I'm not totally prepared to delve into all the gender stuff going on in this episode, but I got huge warm fuzzies from watching a girl uncomfortable with performing femininity in a flashy way getting told that it's okay if she doesn't want to, and then getting replaced by mini-Freddie Mercury. I can't think of another…

My fourth realization: Whenever I hear American Pie, I think of Phantom Menace. I was 20 before I told someone about this inexplicable connection and they informed me Weird Al had done a parody of American Pie called the Saga Begins. Somehow I must have seen it when I was 6 and entirely forgotten about it. I didn't…

I have the reverse of that. Every couple of years, my mom and I have an argument over what a strange coincidence it is that two Hepburns were so successful. I always say it's just a weird coincidence, my mom always reminds me that Audrey Hepburn was actually born Audrey Ruston. She chose to take her dad's archaic last…

Watching two seasons of Torchwood before realizing that the intriguing Doctor guy who left his hand behind was the current iteration of 40 years of television history. Still can't totally wrap my mind around the fact that Captain Jack is the Doctor's mysterious pop-in companion, instead of the other way around.

Me too! I went all the way up to the university library! Also, I was convinced that Florin and Guilder were real places, like former Germanic city states. And also Genovia, the country from the Princess Diaries. My affinity for princess stories was much stronger than my sense of European geography when I was 8.

I was shocked that Spike Lee's career took such a turn that he could go from Do the Right Thing to Her.

Until this moment, I thought exactly the same thing. Who the hell is Tommy Lee?

I was a snooty, overliterate 8 year old at the time. I was convinced that I was going to solve the greatest literary mystery of our time.

I angrily pestered librarians at several different libraries, including my local state university, before I accepted that there was no S. Morgenstern unabridged version of the Princess Bride. Several years later, I found a special edition with "an excerpt of the sequel, Buttercup's Baby", and spent several fruitless…