The Forgotten Soldier is fantastic, though utterly horrifying in every possible way. A miniseries of that would essentially be 10 hours of people being shot, bombed, blown apart, freezing, screaming, being run over by tanks, killing, stabbing and weeping. Then they get to Memel, and it actually gets bad.

The other thing about a possible new season of Community is that neither Jonathan Banks or John Oliver would be around. That leaves creating more new characters, which is really hard to do in a final season, or trying to breathe life into an ensemble that was more or less a shell of itself. Hell, GI Jeff openly mocked…

I kept watching Revolution in hopes that it would someday become as good as it should have been. But it only got more confusing.

Shitting on it because I want it to go out before it becomes a shambling wreck of itself, with half-gutted characters marking their way through standard-issue wacky situations for no reason other than nostalgia?

Wacky shit happening for the sake of wacky shit happening is fine for Three's Company. At its best, Community was way better than that.

It was time. As much as I enjoyed the show, it was pretty much out of gas by the end. They had to bend over backwards to keep the gang together after graduation, and another year stretches an already ludicrous premise past any sense of believability.

"Dismantled?" Yeah, okay. You want to subject films to arbitrary purity tests and quotas, go right ahead. I don't care to live in a world where artists create work for the purpose of "passing" meaningless tests.

And how many Soderbergh films pass the Bechdel test? Probably not many.

Yeah, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS was a total Bechdel fail. Where were the women on that Somali pirate skiff!?!

So many movies are like that because, ideally at least, each movie is different, telling a different story in a different way for a different purpose.

Another issue is WHY a movie "fails" the test. Maybe it's a war movie. Maybe it's a rom-com where OF COURSE two women are going to talk about a man. Maybe it has two really strong female characters who never have a reason in the story to speak to each other. Maybe the two women are talking about a male president, or a…

Because passing and failing mean nothing and every special snowflake gets a trophy.

Nothing has changed my opinion that the Bechdel test is too arbitrary and has too many outliers and exceptions to be effective.

So neither passing nor failing the test mean anything on an individual basis? Then why have the test?

But would that make the movie better, or just longer?

I can't stand the Bechdel test, and I can't exactly put my finger on why. Maybe it's the application of an arbitrary set of "rules" toward complex statistical analysis. Or maybe it's the fact that "passing" or "failing" conveys no reward or demerit on a film. Or perhaps it's the use of the Test as an arbiter of…

At this point, one has to wonder if Shia isn't dealing with some kind of mental illness. Plagiarizing something and hoping you won't get caught is one thing. This kind of public meltdown is…different.

Don't believe the viral scaremongering about contaminated fish, the west coast being fried by radiation and the ocean being broken. There's no compelling evidence that Fukushima is doing any of that. Most of what's going around is either fake, misinterpreted or taken out of context - and it's all ginned up to make us…