Also sadly it's mostly sold out— tickets seem to be either resold for upwards of $300 or have blocked views. At least we'll have Moana.

Excellent. I'm so pumped for whenever they get around to releasing a recording of Hamilton/secretly pining to fly to New York and buy an expensive scalped ticket.

I initially read the headline as "Antonio Banderas to be an emotional wreck who also plays a detective in a Starz drama" which honestly doesn't seem very farfetched to me.

There's already a place in Vancouver called the Black Lodge that's been open for a few years now. Apparently, the cherry pie is mediocre.

I don't mind Marvel trying to make the MCU more like the comics, but I'm sort of put off by its attempts to make the comics more like MCU— in the last issue of SHIELD, Coulson persistently called Daisy "Skye", something she'd never been referred to in the comics before and for the flimsy reason that she'd been…

A friend of mine works at a bookstore and recently said that he was asked by the new show's writers for books on aliens. No word on whether he was asked for books on incestuous amputees.

Wait, you guys edit and fact check Savage Love?

Honestly, maybe nobody saw it— when I caught it here the audience was noticeably smaller than our usual cinematheque crowd, despite our rather large Taiwanese population. It's a real shame, though; his work is moving and lovely, and it was a rare treat to see films in my native language.

Perhaps I should give the audiobook a try then, but I imagine that, though the technical passages would be easier to get through, some of those jokes would be more groan-worthy spoken aloud. I have no objection to the story being optimistic! I didn't think Watney should've been moping, but his emotional moments felt…

Yes, that was probably my favourite part of it— the alternate reality in which people genuinely cared about science.

Oh yeah, I imagine it's a coping mechanism, and I only found it mildly annoying at first. The book only became intolerable for me with the introduction of the also-wisecracking computer scientist, whose jokes are even worse (and don't even make sense to me, since I'm also in tech— just install and use sudo yum update…

You do not understand my feelings. I did not reject your apology for insincerity of content, but for lacking remorse and empathy. Go find peace elsewhere.

I started reading The Martian, vaguely remembering a positive review here about it, but I couldn't stand the protagonist and quit midway. He's akin to a Big Bang Theory geek to me: he's boringly technical and tells jokes instead of having emotional or psychological depth. This can be fine, but it's jarring when you're…

Yes, I was annoyed because you responded to me in the first place: I've been perturbed by your making assumptions about my beliefs, and not by whether said assumptions are correct or not. There are plenty of people making the explicit argument you're trying to combat, so you don't have to respond to someone who hasn't…

Making apologies contingent on clauses signifies that being right is more important to you than empathy, so I reject this apology, whether those clauses are true or not. Also, I said sound sincere, not be sincere. Your words do not sound genuinely remorseful, particularly since your feelings are fueled by the ego like…

Your apologies would sound more sincere if they weren't contingent on two different "if" clauses. If you mean to apologize, be straight about it.

Hey, I'm not sure why this is ringing hollow to you because my argument isn't about the necessity of think pieces or outrage, but merely why somebody might be more upset by rape than murder scenes (which many other posters in this thread did not understand.)

"seriously, the av club has one of the most casually sexist commentariats on the internet, made worse by the fact that so many of them feel like they're not sexist because they're not MRA level bad."

Oh yeah, there are tons of other reasons why one would be upset; I was just trying to offer the easiest explanation to the commentators who can't understand at all.

Cripes, guys. It's not hard to understand why people would tolerate the murders and be disturbed by the rapes. There's a statistically significant percentage of the audience that has been raped in their lifetimes, and the percentage that has been murdered is nil*, and people respond to things in their personal…