I've been wondering the same thing.  It's not just the animation itself that's been suffering - it's the choreography.

My husband and I were watching the episode and chatting about how weird it was, as if we were watching a show from the villains' point of view.  I mean, yes, we know Unalaq is bad, but in this episode, if you'd told me that Korra was the villain of the show, and the rest of the main characters are her enablers, it'd…

unless I’ve been missing out on a batch of winking-yet-melancholy magical realist dark comedies set in Russia.

Hm… Mendocino Farms, maybe?

I can't believe I don't own a pogo stick.

Ha!  I used to live a block from the Biltmore.  If I'd have known y'all were coming, I'd have come out just to harass you.

Nah, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary is all kinds of amazing.

Yeah.  I was excited to see SWS.  But I felt like he'd wandered on set and no one knew what to do with him.  Not my favorite episode, but people here seem to like it more than I do.

Goon is really great, and probably his best work.
He is by far the best thing in Southland Tales.

If the show's set in New Orleans, she didn't use chayote, she used mirliton.  Yes, it's the same plant, but we take these things very seriously.

Agreed, and it's a problem right down to the individual assignments: here we have a piece of unknown, possibly dangerous technology unearthed in a hostile area… Whatever the justification for this particular team's existence, why are we sending them there, and with no field training at all?  It's making the unlikable,…

I LOVE that.

As it is now, this group of largely unqualified people is going around doing what SHIELD normally does, so why was this team made at all?

It's a scan of the opening of the 1496 Latin text of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's De hominis dignitate.  He's the source of my username.

Cranes are Flying is really great: on paper it looks like a standard WWII melodrama, but onscreen it plays like an occasionally avant-garde mashup (the famous bombing-during-piano-practice scene is just crazy, in all the right ways.)  The propaganda's a little heavy because it had to be, but Kalatozov is such a…

I'm with you.  I watched all three when they came out (I'm old!) and now all three in succession.  I love Sunrise (and that bittersweet coda of Vienna at dawn), but I think it's a little more shaggy than the others, and not always for the better.  Sorry, milkshake poet man!  Sunset is near perfect but it feels a…

Hardest laugh for me is when the Holt praised Santiago's work.  Something like,

Wasn't that the joke?  They all give him a skewed look after he says it (because he's wrong), but he interprets it as "Why can't I watch foreign films?"

Biggest laugh of the night for me: "Other shoes are flat, and for nurses."

I don't care what people say: I (unironically) love Myra Breckinridge.  Yeah, some aspects of the film are horrifying (octogenarian sex kitten Mae West), but I think Welch is genuinely very funny, and the film's setpieces so crazy and entertaining, that I love it even though it makes no sense, is pretty mean-spirited,…