I don't necessarily agree with the Academy's choices all the time, but I feel like this article is almost deliberately contrarian at times.

"Cartman’s taken to racially harassing David at school in a way that’s awful even by Cartman standards."

One thing I don't like about the whole premise of this article is it seems like the writers all feel ashamed of these opinions. That's silly. You have a different opinion than other people, and that's totally fine. So long as you can back it up with decent reasoning, there's no need to apologize for taste. It's…

I'm not necessarily squeamish about violence (i.e. some of my favorite films are by Lynch, Tarantino, Coppola, Kubrick), but I am somewhat squeamish about torture. I can't quite pinpoint why. I think it's probably twofold - for one, I will concede that I am probably just too sensitive to stomach most of those kind of…

Based on this entire discussion of Martyrs, it sounds philosophically challenging and fascinating from that perspective, but I know I will never watch it. Maybe I'm a wuss, but I've read about a few of the scenes in it and there is no way I could sit through something like that. Hell, I could barely sit through…

"[T]he episode involves a lot of circling, revisiting of events that the viewer previously heard about in interview sequences."

I see. I suppose I agree that it went on too long, but I still liked it overall. He felt like a worthy adversary to House, and though I knew House wasn't going to prison or anything, the stakes felt real. I thought that maybe his friendship with Wilson might be severely damaged or some of his staff might end up…

I liked the Tritter arc because I felt House meeting someone who was a worthy foe was refreshing (his Moriarty, so to speak).

At a few points in the show, they self-parody this very trope. I agree that it was overdone, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I'm also a bit of House apologist though.

I viewed House as more of a character-driven show than a plot-driven one, however. I was reasonably happy to watch patient-of-the-week stories so long as the character dynamics were interesting and the acting was high quality. So, basically the first four seasons, and, to a lesser extent, the fifth season and the…

I feel like even when his lines weren't all that well-crafted, Leonard is such a good actor that he managed to sell them.

That would have been the ideal way to end the series, honestly, in my book. I feel like the first five seasons were all pretty solid (sans one Kutner suicide or so) and after that it began to decline pretty rapidly.

I think Chase got more interesting as the series progressed though. I enjoyed him becoming a sarcastic smart-ass who doesn't give a shit in a different way than House. He always seemed to work best with less screen time than he received in the first three seasons.

Wait, you thought David Morse was terrible? I thought he was basically House's Moriarty.

I actually liked seasons four and five, minus the Kutner suicide. That was really lazy. But I enjoyed the way season five ended. Those last three episodes were a lot of fun, I thought. I know they were a kind of hammy, but it seemed like the actors and writers were having a blast, and I have a soft spot for the…

Honestly, the last few seasons were worth it just for House and Wilson. They seemed to be the only two characters the writers still knew how to write for by the end. Plus, their chemistry and the performances of Laurie and Leonard never faltered. I remember one of my favorite episodes out of the semi-shitty seasons…

This made me kind of miss House, even though it definitely went off the rails in the final couple of seasons.

I think I'm the only person on the planet besides Roger Ebert who thought Watchmen was an excellent movie. Normally I can't stand Snyder's stylistic flourishes, but I think it worked in this context. Also, I appreciated it being incredibly reverent to its source material; the source material was fucking amazing.

One thing I've noticed about the A.V. Club today: they are not Gravity fans. The way you almost begrudgingly admitted that Gravity deserves an Oscar for visual effects made me laugh.

I'm going to disagree with Bullock being the "weak link" of Gravity. I'm not usually a fan of her work and I thought she was phenomenal; I was amazed by how she could convey such a wide swath of emotions by doing something as simple as subtly altering her breathing pattern.