1. I think it's a cynical but not unrealistic commentary on how people think about threats that don't happen to be right in front of them at the time. Forty years isn't a long time in historical perspective, but politically it's a long time. There are people from the previous generation, like Adama, who are still…

I think it was Lenny Bruce who described German+Irish as the ethnic combination that produced the world's most beautiful non-Jewish women. I wouldn't go that far, but based on some notable examples I've known I can see where he was coming from.

Sure— I guess what I was mostly getting at is that I'm not sure the reluctance you're talking about is just due to received ideas about creativity etc., it can be based on people's real experiences, even if they draw the wrong conclusions from those. Given that we're talking about depressed people who hardly need more…

I agree that that can be how a lot of people see it… but the thing is, your "to be fair" point is based on a misperception to start with, because in those cases it's very likely that the "long time of wallowing," dwelling on negativity, etc., was depression, not something that happened prior to "slipping into"…

This is all true, but as long as we're stating things carefully, I have to say that medication can be a real crapshoot and many of us are not so lucky as to quickly find a thing that lets us be "the same person, just happier." I've spent a lot of time trying to be patient with things that maybe helped the mood a bit,…

Well, depression is one reason that I often spend a shitload of time on the computer, the upside of which is that sometimes I run across interesting places (even if I can't necessarily enjoy them at the time).

Weirdly, Violet was one of the strong points of this season for me. I mean, she's unbearable, but she really commits to it; I had no trouble believing that she's not exactly from the same planet as everyone else (which is almost literally true if you're 1500 years old or whatever) and that she really honestly doesn't…

Dr. Ludwig has been around for a while— she saved Sookie in season 2, and she showed up again in season 4 when Pam was cursed and decomposing. She's great.

Says who? I like that angle— it's interesting to think about the 1940s as an unimaginably futuristic world from an even earlier point of view (though I have no idea if the books/show will get into that much).

Until The Heap shows up to kick both of their asses, and then in turn has its ass kicked by "It".

Our main influence is Snake Plissken— Snake Plissken and Snake Plissken. Our two influences are Snake Plissken and Snake Plissken… and Snake Plissken… our three influences…

What happens to Chris Pratt's new body once the movie is done and he doesn't need it any more? Just asking in case it hasn't been claimed yet.

Effingham has the advantage of sounding like a euphemism for Fuckingham.

I don't know how likely it is that a modern Canadian show would knowingly reference a mid-20th-century US play, but there's a very similarly horrific scene in Dark of the Moon(*): a community of right-thinking country people is determined to "rescue" a young woman from her romance with a forest spirit, and they know…

My super hasty nerd-tally based on just the Moore and Delano periods (I didn't follow the next 5000 issues after that very closely), plus his appearance in Sandman: past or present girlfriends who actually appeared in the story, 3 dead out of 9. Non-romantic friends and family during the same period, 11 dead out of……

I'm not sure how you could adapt that storyline in any recognizable way if you had a whole season of Zed hanging out with Constantine before that. I can't really say more without recapping the whole plot, but maybe you get the idea.

I did. I know Richard wasn't originally from there, but he lived with them and I don't know what else to call them. My only point was that one of the main groups that made up the Others had a history of speaking Latin, so it wasn't just random for Juliet to have picked that up.

I thought the Latin thing was because the Others, despite including some ex-Dharma people and other outsiders, are mostly descended from Richard's people, who had lived on the island for thousands of years and spoke Latin.

Am I remembering wrong, or was there some implication later on that Ethan was one of the people who had been revived via the magic water in the temple, which tended to bring people back a little different than they were? I.e., the same thing that happened to Ben at an early age, and eventually Sayid?

Bringing the discussion back to Truck Nutz, as is only right and proper, Achewood again: http://www.achewood.com/ind… —this is where I first heard the phrase "price point."