“I’ve never understood why BTVS was considered such a feminist show.”

I disagree.
I think the part where it was implied that only by being capable of making babies can she resist her training to kill was the thing that upset people. I myself am infertile and I still manage to feel the natural world. To my knowledge I’ve never killed anyone.

I think some things went over so well they were adopted by pretty much every version of a character that came later... but the rest of it was pretty painful.

Ultimate Spiderman had a great run for the first few years before it was decided to “shake things up”.  The Ultimates and the X-Men were a lot dicier.  I’m not…

I think some things went over so well they were adopted by pretty much every version of a character that came later... but the rest of it was pretty painful.

Ultimate Spiderman had a great run for the first few years before it was decided to “shake things up”.  The Ultimates and the X-Men were a lot dicier.  I’m not…

My favorite moment of the entire trilogy is the pause between when Aaragorn bursts into the throneroom and announces the Beacons have been lit and when Theoden declares Rohan will answer. Will he do what his ancestors have sworn to do and what might save the world or will he stay home and try to do what he thinks will …

I was going to nominate the guys that stole Canada’s national Maple Syrup reserve, but it turns out that 17 people were arrested so it was hardly a “perfect” crime.

One of the biggest issues in lots of Rom-Coms is how poorly the romantic rivals tend to work. You are either kinda rooting for the rival when they come off as the better choice or the protagonist dating them goes down in your estimation for liking them.

I once asked a Zen Buddhist Priest about the purpose of meditation & he compared it to a mental workout.
If I understood him correctly, the goal is to train yourself to control your own mind.
While meditating, do not think about anything, be aware of the moment, and just focus on your breathing and let your eyes see…

Yep, I’m out on cable forever.  When I do go to my Mother’s house for some reason and start watching a show on her Cable that I don’t normally have access too I pretty much instantly nope out after the 3rd commercial.

Macy’s and Bloomingdales both installed escalators before 1903, and there was an escalator in 1909 on Coney Island NY.
Even if he didn’t see any of the ones in NY, the big department stores in London (where he took Diana shopping in the first movie) mostly had installed escalators in the late 1890s.

What I find fascinating is that movies actually do more stuff practically than most people think. When an effect is amazing enough it is assumed to be CGI.

What I find fascinating is that movies actually do more stuff practically than most people think. When an effect is amazing enough it is assumed to be CGI.

What I find fascinating is that movies actually do more stuff practically than most people think. When an effect is amazing enough it is assumed to be CGI.

You already knew it was 2020.  Why did you have to make 2020 worse?

My Wife got deep into Elebits and The Blob.

I actually played way more GameCube titles than Wii titles on my Wii, having been out of consoles for a while at that point.  Tales of Symphonia was a lot of fun.

It always reads to me like those people who buy a new car and are incensed they still need to change the oil.

Yeah, I hear a lot of people talk about how renting is better because they can’t afford to maintain their houses.
Do you think the landlord is actually paying to maintain your apartment? Or do you think that they have figured the cost of maintaining it into your rent? When you buy a house you have to budget for…

In my opinion the investment angle doesn’t work if you only own your own house. The increase in value doesn’t matter because to realize it you have to sell the place you sleep at night.

This seems related to thing where they keep insisting various characters are Gay, just not in any way that matters to the story or is in fact mentioned on screen.  But trust them: Representation!

I feel like Superior Spider is one of those plot arcs that is better as an idea than it was as executed and will be really great grist for a movie or cartoon in the future.
Much like Civil war worked *way* better in the MCU than it did as a comic. They found actual character-based motivations for the players and had it…