It's a casualty of a shared TV universe. They couldn't really do that without turning a huge chunk of this season into a crossover event for the whole slate, which is a major reason they shouldn't have attempted it.

You've now written two paragraph long posts—one mostly just literally copying and pasting me—when five seconds of typing would prove the legal claim and academic claims and a general basic cultural awareness would prove the literature claim. And, for the record to prove a point, this is literally the first thing that…

Yeah, that. It was like experiencing a very watered down version of the things you read about the reaction when he electric. They reacted like Star Wars fans would react if George Lucas had hacked the halftime show and put a video of him sodomizing James Earl Jones while wearing a "Greedo Shot First" shirt up on the…

The Victoria's Secret thing predates it and I think it was just a regular, high-dollar ad campaign. He'd been doing things like that for years, like licensing his songs to Apple during Jobs' comeback. Hawking cars at the Super Bowl was a bridge too far for much of the Boomer crowd, though.

The "citation needed" thing is one of my pet peeves on message boards. It's smug and entitled. I'm leaving a comment on a message board, I'm not writing a formal paper and haven't volunteered to be your personal researcher. It would take just as much time to Google and read the major newspaper coverage of the…

Their official reasoning for the award is that they are taking a wide view of poetry and think his lyrics have added significantly to American letters. Given most of the living writers who are considered influential count him as an influence and he's one of the most widely cited writers in all branches of academia and…

Wait was this before or after the car commercial at the Super Bowl? I remember people being shocked that he did that.

Yeah, going for a crafty version of 'defanged' with whittling is kind of odd. I think the writer was trying to avoid the widely used grinding comparison or maybe trying to evoke the image of an overeager kid trying to sharpen a pencil—but I agree with you that it misses the mark.

With his focus on immersive visuals, I kind of wish he'd propose taking Walt Disney's original vision of Fantasia as a roadshow presentation with a constantly changing program and run with it. Digital distribution makes that a significantly less costly proposition.

Yeah, I think the drinking part of that story is a cover. Faraci is just a toxic person/abuser and hypocrite. He used to brag about doing that kind of thing on the CHUD boards when he wasn't lecturing the users about what they should or should not be discussing, sadly declaring that his activities on the CHUD…

They fired him? That made my morning. (I love the chain but avoided their blog specifically because of him.)

I keep saying this but this show might be interesting again if they embraced this and used it to explain why Thawne hates him so much.

Yes. THIS scene is largely why he was a fan favorite.

I disagree. From my POV, this is EXACTLY what they thought his appeal was—which is why all the Sand Snakes were ambiguously POC women spending a third of the time clawing at the walls for sex, a third plotting revenge, and a third fighting—and it's not. His actual appeal was two-fold.

Yeah, you know that that season was so focused on Dorne solely because of how much the audience loved Pedro Pascal. And sadly, on top of actually making the plot and characters from the book worse, they made it pretty clear they don't entirely understand why that performance caught on with the audience.

Just saw this. As a film, you kind of have to let go of the idea that it's a Nat Turner biopic. It is very, very specifically a big middle finger to the DW Griffith film. It's purposely the Bizarro World version of that film. It starts out with a quote that's pretty much the antithesis of the quote prefacing the…

The thing I take issue with here is that you make a vacillating reference to the idea that dropping nuclear arms on Japan shortened the war.

If it's that, it had to be on the sly. Because that really is that guy's style and—in my experience—the kind of kid who goes to Stanford, lives off his parents his whole life, and dresses like a dandy is just not the kind of person who laughs at himself.

Okay, I'll be honest, the fact that the writer was responsible for Secretary is the only reason I was remotely interested in this movie. The review and this comment just saved me $9.50.

Yeah, this episode didn't instill a lot of confidence and I think Sepinwall's review over on Hitfix really nails the essential story problems. I'm not making the mistake of season 2 and waiting this out. I'll check the reviews and see if things get sorted. If not, I'll just try to convince myself this show was…