Sharpest damn response in this comment section.  Spot on.

I enjoyed this a lot. She’s charming and astonishingly level-headed for someone so successful.  

Periodically I pop up with this comment: actors are really intense strange people who choose a career emoting in front of people. (I believe the phrase is “emotionally labile,” although that always sounds kind of dirty to me.) Some show it a little more than others.

I found it enough of a page turner to get me through some long flights. The End.

You’re getting some blowback on this but I agree. The nerd/object of ridicule figure ... be in that role for long enough and it’s damaging, no matter who was complicit or why it was done.

Thanks!!  I’m excited for this.

This book is kind of right square in the center of the preoccupations of the AV Club readership. Probably a significant percentage thinks “I could have written that (why didn’t I?) and it would have been better.” (Not trying to be superior to this mindset, just that the bestseller I definitely haven’t written would be …

What’s the book podcast you’re referring to please?  Thanks!

It’s definitely endemic to Gen-Xers.

It’s a feature, not a bug.  A lot of people read for escapism.

It’s not a mystery why Stephenie Meyer made a bazillion dollars. The Twilight trilogy was written in bad prose with a lot of problematic stuff (lead example being the boyfriend/future husband who watches the heroine sleep before they’re even dating and wants to eat her until the moment he mercy-kills her). However, it…

I like the second one.

I’m a Maron fan and I get that he wants to act in movies. Unfortunately he only gets cast as “music industry guy” or “promoter/wrangler guy.” So he has to work with what he’s given. Sounds like it didn’t work out this time, hopefully the Aretha movie will be better.

They *did* market him as Johnny Cougar, which is why I always think of him by the transitional moniker he bore in my formative years, “John Cougar Mellencamp.”

I initially misread your comment as “I *have* midichlorians too.”  May the FBWY.

I’m a big fan of Up, which centers on humans (granted there is a POC character), but the point is more about Disney, which has many human characters in its cartoons, and which, per my original comment, now owns--and presumably steers--Pixar.

It kind of bugs me that we now have these two movies where first Disney, then Pixar (which is now part of Disney, of course), finally selects a Black protagonist, and in both cases they spend most of the movie morphed into something else, a frog, in the case of the Princess and the Frog, and a blobby spirit creature,…

Thumbs up re: action figure.  I really want to see the concept art version of this guy.  I’m imagining it would be more of a boot-cut situation.

Don’t worry, he won’t.  Flat affect bro-speak only.

It’s a typical problem with long-running sitcoms: the “situation” part gets stale, and attempts to shake it up don’t always work.