Yeah, it was a pretty shocking endcap for me, as a Narnia-obsessed little girl. "Once a King or Queen in Narnia, always a King or Queen in Narnia! Oh, except Susan, obviously, that lipstick-wearing whore. But other than that!" I'm overall fonder of Last Battle than a lot of people are, but even at eight years old…

Nah. Lewis was an evangelical from the days before evangelicals gave a flying fuck about abortion — that was some Catholic nonsense, back in his day. He was also British, whose strain of evangelicism was never really contaminated by Cold War anti-communist paranoia and never came to conform half so closely to…

Are we counting Liberalism? Because VotDT in particular has some pretty dire word about that.

Susan's arc was undeniably bullshit, but I'd like to point out that she doesn't actually end up in Narniahell. She survives. She's still alive on Earth, while her siblings, dead in the train crash, go Higher Up and Further In. It's *implied* that she has rejected Aslan and will therefore eventually end up — well,…

Right, but Fisher's role is more akin to Nick Fury than Captain America. And nobody sits around dissecting whether Samuel Jackson is sufficiently trim-waisted, because he's an older dude giving a kickass performance and it's a non-issue. You gotta compare apples to apples.

Both my mother and sister were very pointed in their disapproval of Driver's looks ("I expected him to be cute…" "It's so unfortunate that he wasn't good-looking at all.") So, you know. People are entitled assholes all around, I guess.

I think the big difference is that male actors have to do that for *some* roles, and female actors have to do it for *all* roles. Like, I'm not really mad that Action Stars are expected to be impossibly fit, and if ANH was being cast today, it's fine that they'd still be looking for a bitty slip of a girl to play the…

I think a lot of people hear "it's because her voice is great" as something to be dismissive of — like, sure, sure, she can hold a big note, big deal. But you're dead right: a *lot* of people can hold a big note. Competition shows and church choirs are full of people who can belt for the rafters. It's the…

Other Guy, I think (I mean, inasmuch as you care what internet strangers think…) that not labeling yourself is totally cool. Some people find the labeling and categorizing useful to make them feel less alone. Others of us just don't dig it. I personally meet the definition of "demisexual," but I don't use the term,…

It's not really horror-movie-esque, but I found the final swordfight between Justin and Jenner horribly disturbing, because it seemed (to my sheltered suburban kid eyes, at least) so grimly realistic. They're not dancing around swashbuckling. It's wet and brutal and they're bleeding and legitimately trying to stab…

It's insane that Watership Down didn't make the list. Really, Miss Finch having weird eyelashes is more disturbing than…all of Watership Down? No.

Actors who aren't going hungry but still dream of the Big Leagues are pretty careful about managing their brands. A lot of thought goes into what kind of roles the public will associate them with and how that will affect their future options in the industry.

I think what really binds "right wing" ideologies together across time and space is an acceptance of the fundamental rightness of authoritarianism: that some people are Your Betters, and you ought to learn your place and practice deference to them. Historically, the "right" has traditionally been aristocratic and…

It's pretty strongly implied that his intense teenage friendship with Grindlewald was at the very least an infatuation on Dumbledore's part, and maybe a love affair. Which is why I wasn't super stoked that the gay thing became quasi-canon, because it's actually a little gross that in a series that turned out…

I like the double villains, but I think the show works best when they aren't working together, and you end up with that crossfire effect — Alpha pack/Darach being my favorite, but also the first two seasons, which really were Peter/Kate Argent and Matt/Gerard (with Derek and the kanima respectively as pawns). Even…

I feel like people are really brushing off the "Stiles feels guilty even though it's probably pretty much totally legal!" element really lightly. Yeah, from our perspective as people who've watched ninety gazillion action movies and tv shows, it's easy to sit here and say he should treat the event rationally. But…

So do I, but I've seen the second movie, and I'm a woman of science.

Everything more or less happened in Ultimates.

My opinion actually is Godfather. Sometimes a lot of people seem to like a movie because a lot of people actually do think it's quite good.

I think it's just that he doesn't have the common decency to pretend to be sorry. He just fucked off to Europe and spent decades getting rich doing what he loves, then whines like a big fucking baby about how the US won't just get bored of that whole business with wanting him to serve time for the violent crime he…