All these stories have gotten this old Tom Lehrer song stuck in my head: http://www.youtube.com/watc… But I'm not really complaining.

Yeah, but I've read that helmets actually don't help with the kind of injuries people get on the slopes, usually. They're great if, say, someone drops something off a ski lift on your head, but are not particularly beneficial in terms of the impacts usually sustained (on the ground, into another person, into a tree).…

I get the drunken hook up thing- or rather, let's call it getting caught up in the moment? it's the anti-condom hook ups that mystify me. Like the friend. With the dude that a)obviously knew he was getting laid after the party and b)was probably sober enough to drive, legally if not ethically. Or with the hot italian…

Don't worry too much about the mythology aspect- the world tree and everything- I certainly don't know it (the mythology or the comic books version). If you just go with the flow, it works out because the story it's telling uses those elements but it's not really about them.

No mention of copyright? Because this is the consequence at stopping the public domain clock at 1923.

I love Andrew Garfield but his shy awkwardness in the movie didn't make me think "shy nerd" as much as it did "poorly socialized six year old."

Exactly. *eye roll*

it's never going to be a good movie, but it kind of struck me as kind of a sarcastic take on the whole dark hero thing. Peter Parker going dark doesn't make him cool- he's still a dweeb. It just makes him a loser who's an asshole. Kind of like Nice Guy syndrome, but with super powers.

I do. "finally, a film with a wise cracking spider-man!" "it's so much more in character than those awful Raimi films, Peter Parker some new nebbish nerd? Why I never!" blah blah. Seriously, just check out the comments.

Just wanted to say there's a London meet up planned for this saturday, December 7th. Check out the tolerability index forum or email drlivingstonereturns@gmail for details.

God knows. But it does seem to be something you find everywhere. You know the ones, the people that just never stop watching when they're not enjoying it anymore but seem to do so with an ax to grind.

Yeah, I was definitely tarring everyone with the same brush there, I didn't actually mean to be that negative. ( I may have just come from reading certain Doctor Who special comments).

But hardcore fans are never happy with anything. It's part of the definition. So I don't know what that's worth. But from my own personal experience, the people I knew who were "casual" fans- you know, the people who've "only" been watching and enjoying star trek over the decades, generally liked them.

It was the justified theme music. (whatever the song over the title credits is)

Feel better: I had a roommate who thought the whole thing wasn't just a false flag operation, but had been faked as well.

The *nazis* were going to give America to *black people*. Wow. There are so many levels on which I am not surprised to hear that it as a Southern conspiracy theory.

I liked 11's speech in that scene about it being so many years that he's lost count, that he's 1200 and something, unless that's a lie too- it did a great job of showing that flash of weariness and loss, really helped built up the contrast between him and Hurt, despite Hurt looking older than dirt. And him and 10, for…

I'm really sorry Rita was killed off as well. She would have been a fantastic companion.

Amy's was the little girl who had a taste of something amazing and life changing at such a young age, and it made her weird and lonely when she didn't get to realize it. Her story is about letting go of childhood, letting go of being that lonely little girl, letting go of never wanting to give anyone else the chance…

You're absolutely right. The x-files movie came out the year I start watching the show, so I was familiar with it at that point, but yet I had absolutely no idea what was going on for most of it.