I mean, it looked like The Just-Us League (Snyder’s working title for the movie) would have featured time travel and. . .that’s about it. How the fuck these guys know so much about the plot of a movie that was being rewritten even as Snyder filmed it is beyond me. I’d like a DC movie-verse, but Snyder was not going to…

As with most balks, it is not that clear. He’s just shifting his weight around. Is that a natural part of his wind-up? Is he trying to loosen up his legs? Is he just digging into the rubber? It’s impossible to say.

Godley was clearly following the advice of Pitching Coach Mystikal, but he failed to pay attention when he said, “But watch yourself.”

You sure it’s not the jet fuel? Oh. Wait. But it can’t. . . yeah. . .

Unleash the Archers is pretty good if you like power metal. The singer has pretty awesome range and a powerful voice.

I’m sure it was to some degree. After Prohibition ended, America went pretty nuts on booze. In The Thin Man, which came out a year after the Volstead Act was repealed, the main characters are pretty much drinking in every scene. I think the three martini lunch was what business executives did to close a deal and that…

You’re killing my buzz here, man

That and having clean water. I remember hearing that, until humans figured out how to filter water, life was lived in a boozy haze. Which also explains why so many liquers and liquors translate as “water of life.”

Sure. In the 19th Century.

So it’s Die Hard...but in a city!

Yeah, we take what we can get here. I’d love to hang a banner saying “World Series Champions Runner-Up.”

There’s also this tendency for Americans to assume that if players or athletes aren’t getting max value of their contracts, or if they lose alot of money, that they screwed up somehow. It’s pretty infantalizing and smacks of, “I know how to run your life better than you.”

According to Screen Daily, Thomas Jane has signed on to star in The Orchard, a new horror film concerning a sheriff investigating “a malevolent force” lurking inside an orchard.

Also, good luck on the Ph. D. thesis! I tapped out after a four years of grad school, so sticking it out for the whole course takes guts!

And, as you note, you use allegory for reader applicability according to your personal tastes. However, since Tolkien was using the specific definition of allegory, it makes more sense to argue with the definition Tolkien is using.

You are a very knowledgeable and smart person, lightninglouie, but you are out of your comfort zone here. Your understanding of literary analysis and the reasons behind it are absolutely wrong and, frankly, a little offensive. I don’t do this job because I am an stuck-up elitist with no imagination. On the contrary -…

It doesn’t matter if Tolkien intended the book has an allegory or not. Authors put stuff in their books that they never intended all the damn time

Marchessault does have a point, too often penalties are called due to the results, not the actual infraction. It’s human nature to do so but it’s not ideal.

I was never much a fan of Wheedon’s work, but the culture change has been pretty shocking. Two years ago, if I said Wheedon was kind of a one trick pony, I’d be shouted down as a hater. Now if I say that, I’m not going far enough. And AV Club flipping on the issue is a pretty good representation of that change.