I'm not a particularly big SOAD fan, but to be fair to them the difference is that they were never going after the aggro-jock audience that the likes of Linkin Park and Korn were after. Granted, their politics weren't the deepest I've ever seen, but at least they tried for something more than "feelin' like a freak on…

The original show debuted in 1993 and her name was Topanga even then. Sure, it's a dumb name, but taking issue with it *NOW*…?

I found Robber Bride a bit soap opera-ish for my taste. Not without merit, certainly (nothing she's ever written is), but not one I'd consider a personal favourite.

Well, contemporary culture does have a habit of naming new things by inventing portmanteau words for them. So as irritating as it is, I blame the real world for it rather than Atwood (who was just reflecting the reality of how these things probably *would* end up being named if they really existed.)

I finished and enjoyed O&C. Had a minor problem with YotF — the deal was that she donated naming rights to characters in the novels as prizes in a charity auction, and the winning bidder for YotF was a famous (in Canada at least) journalist. I didn't know that background yet, so I hit the first appearance of the name…

Actually she does that already — her whole schtick has been differentiating "speculative" fiction from "science" fiction (the distinction according to her being that "speculative" fiction could really happen, because it's based on science that already exists in the real world instead of invented stuff like space…

I thought that wasn't happening anymore. Has there really been any news that it's back in the pipeline?

I have to admit, I certainly got a The Weekly Show without Jon Stewart vibe here, but to be fair that was always going to be a difficult comparison to avoid. The Indian election segment was certainly the strongest point of distinction, since TDS doesn't really do international stories very often; the fact that he was…

I was going to say the same thing. "Edmund Burke. But it doesn't matter who." was a response to the "Who said…" part of Mallory's comment, not the "clone of…" part.

It's odd to me that at the time, most people were hypercritical of the montage because of the possibility that it telegraphed the entire season in advance, but now that we've reached the end of the season and some of it didn't actually happen, everybody's all up in arms that it *didn't* telegraph the entire season in…

It was a DADT riff; the "dad" was a boyfriend/husband that the pilot doesn't want to talk about. Also, you were supposed to ping back to it when Ray and Slater had the "what's your deal?" conversation in the CIA plane.

That's a thing that I do in the back of my head.

I've enjoyed most episodes this season well enough, but found I had lost the "looking forward to it" excitement that I used to have — instead, it was turning into a routine, and I rarely went back to watch an episode a second or third time anymore (I still to this day go back to "Lo Scandalo" every once in a while,…

I had that reaction too; it took me a minute to realize that she was dressed differently and wasn't in her condo.

I don't know, I'm a bit worried at the kind of things they could come up with in a contemporary context. Like "Here Comes Piggy Boo Boo", that sort of horror.

Now I'm picturing Kermit and Piggy starring in a full-fledged remake of "Antichrist". Not a pleasant mental image, trust me.

There's actually a lot of really great stuff in the genre, though you have to dig deeper than the mainstream hits to find most of it.

I'm with everybody else. However you guys are doing it all, you really pull off some of the absolute best animation work I've ever seen on television.

I remember reading a long time ago an article about exactly why they put Cale in the movie but Wainwright on the soundtrack, but I don't remember what the reason was — though I *think* you're right that it had to do with Wainwright already being on their label — and can't find the article anymore.

And also, ironically, did a less ubiquitous (though infinitely more bearable to listen to) cover of "Hallelujah" himself.