Personally, I'm a fan of this one:

Wow, thanks! The story took me far too long to write and edit to my satisfaction, but all the hard work was worth it.

:)

In my opinion: yes. I tried to dig into that in the story, a little bit, but there are more examples in the book.

Thank you!

Ironically, I auditioned for my workshop with a story about that very thing.

Thanks! (And yes. Very depressing.)

For real. This show is like that quarterback whose grades get to slide because he's the only hope his tiny town has of going All-State. I'm tired of letting it pass.

Ordinarily, I would be inclined to agree with this sentiment — except that I quit "The Walking Dead" weeks ago, for exactly the reasons Meredith has outlined. It's not that I wanted more zombies. I was just exhausted with the humans.

I think the only thing that kept it off this list is that the terror seems completely intentional. It's shot and edited just like a horror film, right down to the jump scares and the weird stalker's-eye-view.

So. Very. True. While I adored "NIMH," the spider sequence in the Great Owl's nest always stuck with me. Ditto the rabbit-on-rabbit violence of "Watership Down." And that drug movie, whose title I never remembered. I think we used to watch some of these in the final week of elementary school, sitting in dark…

She was a great Joan Jett — twitchy and angry and still tough. Ditto "Panic Room" — she rides out that seizure like a boss. Give her some time, and she'll win a role that does for her what "Silence of the Lambs" did for Jodie Foster. Until that role, some people still remembered her as the kid from "Candleshoe."

Oh, goodness, no. I still crack open the Oresteia when I feel like something bloody. I still yell at the screen when Piper Laurie gets her Bible wrong in "Carrie" (because Augustine translated Genesis incorrectly). I still went on a "Foucault thought of this decades ago" rant during a class on systems theory.

Eeek! I was too impassioned to spell "Aeschylus" correctly. My apologies, literary canon.

Mwahahahahaha.

Haters hate good shit because they don't have it.

Presumably, it's about a nonexistent decoy threat that causes M. to worry unnecessarily while sending Bond into the fox's den.

It's true. We'd have to have a whole separate tournament for "greatest Dracula of all time."

The Count could preside over the tournament.

Wow. The people who grew up watching Eva are now influencing public policy. What will they recommend next?