yup. most important thing he can show Hazel is that they'll be fine without him. only then can Hazel move on.

… also, the whole "_Watership Down_ Scarred Me" thing was tired before the original essay was done, thanks, we should just leave that off already. I remember when that movie came out. Saw it in the theater. Nobody cared much about the violence.

Bubs is a thing, now.

nothing unique here, except in the US market. and even here, stuff like Archer has been making inroads for a while, now.

well ideally they lead people to a place where they can actualize their own potential. that's why el a-hrair-rah takes Hazel on a tour of the warren before he leads him away to join the heavenly owsla: he wants to show him the warren will be fine without him. that's what made him a true leader.

The book is about leadership. That's why Hazel is the "hero." He's Aeneas. (Structurally, the book is basically The Aeneid, with rabbits.) The story is literally about how Hazel learns that he is a leader & Bigwig learns that strength must serve wisdom. ("My Chief Rabbit told me to stay." Which utterly terrifies the…

Try to put yourself into the mindset of a British person who'd lived through the war.

Don't assume Strawberry is female just because Olivia Colman is voicing. All the rabbits from the lotus warren are supposed to be effete, even when they're big. And in any case, Colman could probably voice the King of Sparta without loss of macho. She really is quite good.

The trailer is "weirder" than the movie.

It's a meme. A couple of years back someone wrote an essay (I wanna say for Cracked) about how the movie "traumatized" them as a child, & everyone picked it up and ran with it.

I've probably read it 5 or 6 times. The book has a lot of mundane depth to it. Adams was a master of character, and the characters used to tell me something new every time.

Strawberry will probably STILL be a male rabbit. He was supposed to be big & imposing but not very substantial. I do hope they don't code him 'fey', but there's no reason Colman can't play a male voice. There's probably not much she can't do.

[awkward recollection of Tim O'Brien's stab at the same topic….]

the creep-factor is strong in Dave Coulier playing a single friend you enlist to help raise young daughters. i'm kind of fascinated by the fact that this hardly ever gets mentioned.

I did get the answer, but I can't say I would have gotten it up under the lights. (The key with a question like this is to find the angle that most reduces the field. IN this case, people who ceased being president since that date.)

I have to think there's a bit of internal/external dynamic. If we as outsiders exploit Hindu tropes, we're basically admitting that we care about Indian culture; if people inside do something that can be construed as mis-using the tropes, then it becomes part of an internal struggle for ideological territory.

It's a great question; i wish it were addressed in the article.

those needing a Joel & Trace fix can check out _Other Space_ on Yahoo TV.

the sesame street / margaret hamilton bit is fairly pathetic. I would just about pay money as an adult to see her ham it up with oscar the grouch. knowing myself as a kid, I feel pretty confident it would have pretty handily defanged the wicked witch of the west, who was a character in my nightmares off and on.

Exactly. The question of whether it constitutes parody won't be pivotal. NBC's lawyers will bring it up as due diligence, but if they couldn't win this case without it, they'd seriously be getting overpaid.