There is a huge difference between pseudoscience and religious belief. Religious belief isn't making an argument for a mechanism, it's a belief in a metaphysical truth. Pseudoscience is all about claiming there's a mechanism. It's like- homeopathy isn't arguing that diluting things is a spiritual change. It's got a…

I know this may be hard for you to wrap your brain around but not everyone is as craven a partisan as you. Some of us actually care about our country, not just that our "team" is winning.

Yeah, that was the one.

Yeah, that probably drives most of it.

What was that movie with the disney movie princess in the real world? The forced romance ending so did not work.

I still really don't get the ending of Peggy Sue Got Married. I mean, it could work in the sense of making it about accepting your life decisions and perhaps knowing they weren't the best but owning that they were yours and not wanting to rewrite your life, sure. But I still have no idea why she wants to get back…

It's hard to say villain when you look at Hoffman's character. Or rather, what she does is horrible and fucked up, but it's hard to feel sorry for Hoffman, who is, especially in retrospect, a callous self-absorbed dick.

Goldie Hawn is another one of those actors who can make something work on sheer charm. I really liked the House Sitter as well, even though that should have been horrible. (I think it helps that the "straight man" is Steve Martin, who in addition to having his own charm, is quickly revealed to be as deranged as she…

I don't mind that trope as much when they avoid making the "wrong' match into a bad guy. (French Kiss is my favorite example of this in a way, because even though the guy dumps her in the worst way possible, by the end of the movie it's clear that he's just a normal human being who didn't handle something very…

Honestly there are a number where the premise should/is creepy or just disastrous, but the characters are so fundamentally charming and have the right chemistry that it works. A couple that come to mind are French Kiss, IQ, and Dave. (All of which star Meg Ryan or Kevin Kline or both I just realized). IQ's problematic…

I saw it as less horrifying in a way then what her family was doing to her, letting her basically live the same day over and over again and not giving her a choice, despite the fact that eventually it would tip into horror land as she aged or things changed too much for her not to notice. With the movie ending, she's…

I was disappointed that they hadn't seen each other since whatever. I thought it would have been fine if they were just doing their own things some of the time.

Yeah, but even with young widows, the time to remarriage is giant in comparison. The numbers I found said that the average time to remarriage for widows was something like 14 years.

holding up a sign is hardly the same thing as heckling.

Somewhere else on this comment thread, I was looking up the statistics on remarriage for widowers vs widows and one of the things that came up is that a *LOT* of men remarry very quickly…or they die. (Especially with older couples- if the wife dies first, the husband often dies within a few months).

Widowers tend to remarry very quickly; widows really don't (and often don't remarry at all)

I'm not sure how the island thing is romantic. All i mean is that it would end a lot of the romanticism and mystery, especially as it's based on info that's been known for a very, very long time. Whereas things that just go missing and can't be found always invite fantasy.

There's that theory that she was a castaway on a tiny tiny island. They found some bones…not too long after she went missing, actually. There was a thing on PBS about it a while ago. I thought it was fairly convincing in a "no way to know for sure, but credible" sort of way, especially since it was so…prosaic. There's…

Yeah, I think that's a good comparison. You wouldn't call a 100 year old suicidal - it's not an act of despair or rage. But there's a sense of finality, of completeness, of being ready and relieved to have the chance to take a bow and shuffle off the stage. (And it also fits pretty well thematically with finishing off…

After reading everything here, I can really see Twelve just being…done. Not in a melodramatic way, but on top of what you brought up, River's death has kind of hung over the season in subtle ways as well, hasn't it? This is the Doctor who has finally managed to accept endings and maybe now he'd just like to find one.