Since the AVClub is one of the worst place about "outrage culture" I am not surprised you did not like it since you were the butt of the joke.

But on the other hand, there is a very strong correlation between political affinities of kids (when they become adults) and parents.
Regarding the saying I do not think it needs to be taken literally or that it reflects an empirical truth. Many former "socialists" just became "liberals", maybe not left-wing on…

There is apparently even some genetic influence beyond political philosophies so indeed, if this is true, people do not switch worldview so easily. But yes opinions can evolve and change.
Gay marriage is a clear example, in a few years we went from a overwhelming majority against to a big majority in support. Mostly…

Let's not even enter the relevance of PISA scores, let's admit they do represent the quality of the general student population. But the "system" in use in a country is only a part of what makes the students good or not. The parents, the general culture of the country, even genetics, they all play a part. So limiting…

At this point the show and the books are two different entities and have so much diverged that I do not think it has any importance if or when the books are published for the fans of the series. The main issue is that I do not remember a lot from the books and obviously much more from GoT so when the next book comes I…

By the way - this is the way the French pronounce it, so they have been right all along.

You do not want to continue but I will answer.

Ok the persecution debate is of no importance.

I am not dismissing Christian texts as evidence, there are just evidence of the existence of the Christian sect, not of Jesus; The Gospels are not history and not written as history and in fact are written as allegory or prophetic texts, and not to be taken at face value.

Outside Christian texts there is absolutely no proof of any persecution against Christians. Jewish texts say no word about them - they speak of heretics but no reason to believe they were speaking about the tiny, fringe, Christian sect of the beginning. Of course, even the existence of Jesus is not very clear even if…

But people know that the LOTR/Hobbit movies have extended editions and wait for them, nobody buys the regular DVD and then the extended edition unless he is a moron.

You can find for free on the internet fan-edits of the movies that reduced them to 3)4 hours and make them watchable and much better.

What do you call the "old days" ? They have being doing this "extended edition" since 2002, and at least at the beginning it was really brillant. The extended edition of FOTR is great.

But the ending did explain everything, so what are you complaining about ? You did not like the answers but that's your problem.

You should read this and you will stop saying this nonsense about "Lost making shit up as they went along":

You are not in the minority but in the majority. The finale was in fact very good. The minority who complains makes a lot of noise but they are still a minority (there were polls on the subjects and the majority did like very much the finale episode).

I agree, the kids killed Casper that's pretty much self evident, and for revenge, but why have they been sitting on their asses since then and did nothing ? The y have the hard drive and they did not use it to blackmail or to send it to the media.

Jonathan is very common in France, Ronan - never heard it in my life.

A am French too and in France they explain us from morning to evening that there is no races, that all human beings are the same race, that this concept means nothing. So I doubt you.

It has nothing to do with race in the eyes of the French. it's a cultural/ethnical and economical problem, not racial.