Please explain to me: Because the country was not a Utopia, and because there were legitimate criticisms to be made of the Obama administration, was it wrong to attend a party in the president’s honor, or was it just wrong to have enjoyed it?

Maybe like with Caesar, the Slayers have adopted “Buffy” as a title.

One of these things is not like the others...

Even the last three aren’t that bad, and they lead into that really excellent Turtles Forever movie.

The last, CGI version was OK (though it felt just about as cheap as this). I actually had no idea it had ended – last time I checked it was still going on. Are they using the same voice cast for this new one?

Counterpoint: The film was almost entirely miscast (Patrick Stewart is many things, but Gurney Halleck is not one of them), the only exception being Francesca Annis as Jessica.

Presumably it would just mandate that they would have to spin it off again. So yes, the latter.

Yeah, same as the case against firing Jeff Sessions.

No, what he wrote was “even if it didn’t live up to the internet’s boring fan theories”. Which is to say: (1) there were boring fan theories on the internet, and (2) some people were upset that it “didn’t live up” to the boring theories they favored. Anyone aware of the history should easily grasp who the barb is…

Some fan theories were cool (a few even anticipated TLJ), most would be dull and dumb as the actual canon answer. Which is fine: coming up with dumb fan theories is part of the fun.

Only rarely, and only the very best ones. Yes, they can hold your attention for other reasons, but I think the plot mechanics always become a liability eventually. The Sixth Sense remains an enjoyable movie even after you know the twist, but – at least after the first rewatch, when you can enjoy catching all the hints…

Filmstruck is a streaming service focused on arthouse movies.

I’m excited for this adaptation, but having read the book and knowing the answers to the mysteries, I wonder whether it will manage to hold my interest the whole way through.

Anything stopping them from just calling it Braddock? Or literally any other title?

Huh, it made a pretty strong impression on me (I stopped eating meat for a few years afterwards). Meanwhile, I found Dark Places so forgettable that I actually bought and got halfway through a second copy before I realized I’d read it before.

I thought it was head and shoulders above Dark Places (the only of Flynn’s books I consider actually weak), and a really strong genre piece with a nasty bite and interesting thematic overtones, much like Gone Girl.

No, he’s basically Winnie the Pooh, only not as dumb, and living in the city.

It would be a stretch, but the beauty of crowdfunding is that it creates an opportunity for excessively devoted fans to obscenely overpay for what they’re getting, so I wouldn’t totally rule it out.

Yeah, I was gonna say. Plus Buffy either implies or outright establishes that Willow has wiped Tara’s memory more than once, right?

Yeah, a simulation also seemed obvious to me. The ability to re-live a life with different choices is not just a narrative can of worms, but a philosophical one: it changes the lives of other people as well, so does that mean that some of them who would otherwise have gone to the Good Place might now end up in the Bad…