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

“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…

I remember seeing another interview with him where he says he has a theory that you can only keep people interested in your mystery for about 2 seasons. After that they give up on ever getting answers & start getting angry with you for jerking them around.
His solution was to introduce new mysteries every season & make…

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.

The best Superman moment in any adaptation I’ve seen is from the first Donner movie when he is flying up in the sky to turn back time and his Kryptonian Dad’s voice comes out of the clouds to tell him he is forbidden to interfere in the course of human events and Superman pauses.
He then hears Pa Kent’s voice in the…

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…