They're banning microaggressions?

I don't know if arson is too far but it certainly isn't respectable.

'sold from the moment the Bowie quote smashes through the screen, thinking, “Finally, somebody gets it.”'

The Dissolve was for closers.

"Genre fiction has always been poking around the mainstream, but now more than ever it’s enjoying unprecedented success. Sci-fi and historical fiction, fantasy and bawdy romance, superheroes and dragons, are an integral part of the mainstream media diet, be it in literature, television, or film. Perhaps it’s no…

My favourite line is Leia's quote from the opening of the original Star Wars novelization:

And that's the good half.

"If you go into the club house of the world’s most notorious bikers, it’s not going to be for a Bible reading”

I'm hoping he turns out to be Holy Half-Dead.

A bold stand by the AV Club on a controversial issue!

I like the way Snrub thinks!

I think it was the reference to Michael Shannon playing an ordinary human being.

Look at us. Look at what they make us watch.

as in "not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous"?

I appreciate the 'M' in MTV has been redundant for several decades, but now it looks like the 'TV' is going the same way.

"You realise I am not actually a wizard?"

Then again, this guy wrote a book entitled Trigger Mortis, so exactly why should anyone give a fuck about his opinion about anything at all?

Point taken.

Yes. Yes, it was.

So Bill Bryson is played by Robert Redford? That's some generous upcasting because in real life, he looks like a schlubbier version of the character Nick Nolte is playing.