Glad to have you here, still doing our Savage podcasts! Kinja schminja!

Read the book, haven’t seen the movie. Guess I should then?

I’ve seen Fight Club but haven’t read it. Read and saw Shawshank and it’s one I’d put on the “movie is just as good as the book” list. I (ok, don’t stone me now...) haven’t watched Trainspotting yet, nor have I read the book. I’ve seen and read Jurassic Park and thought the movie was just as bad* as the book. I’m not…

Even if Kinja pushes me to the point of never commenting here ever again, I will still always show up to read an O’Neal article. I can’t quit you(‘re writing)!

Wow, I wasn’t even aware that this was based on a book! I really liked the movie though.

Thanks for the rec, but it doesn’t appear to be available here in Ontario.

I’ve watched both of these, but never read the books. Not sure if Jaws is worth it, it may be ok even if the movie’s better, but given what I’ve heard about The Godfather, not sure if I’ll ever read that!

But surely two things will survive the kinjapocalypse, right? Right? It has to be two things!

(Aside-Thanks!)

Oh, don’t get me wrong, the sweetness for me is a feature, not a bug! I just mention it so that while I’m recommending it, people realize I’m recommending it for people who also like sweet wines/ciders!

I feel the same way about stories in the vein of fables/myths/fairy-tales/allegories/legends/parables/folklore etc. regardless of if it’s live action or animation. Something about taking a story out of the realm of reality or making it larger than life, in my mind, really allows it to more fully explore the themes…

I was fortunately still able to like the movie, but I went in to it expecting to love it like I did the book. I still distinctly remember this movie as the moment I learned “the book is always better.”*

He wasn’t in uniform or anything, she only knew he worked for the hotel after talking to him.

I have some eclectic drinking tastes...from (in order of preference) all versions of whisky/whiskey, to some beer, to dry red wines and sweet white wines like Asti/Champagne/Riesling (and no wines in between) and to a wide assortment of other liquors, but only rarely or in small quantities. I would put Cider alongside…

Unfortunately, the only way to get permanently out of the grays is to be followed by someone “official” from the AV Club. I also couldn’t get my account to link (as soooo many of us couldn’t) and e-mailed Kinja help and while dealing with some other account issues I was having, they had the AV Club follow me so I…

My sister, who is maybe a shade lighter than I am, went to the Dominican Republic 2 years ago on vacation. On her first day at the pool, she was taking off her beach cover-up to lay in the sun in her bathing suit, when she sees one of the resort’s activity coordinators for the pool, come over, mouth agape. My sister…

Yeah, forgot about the cross-pollination of articles now...I got here through a link on the AV Club page, so forgot it wasn’t their article and we are only “un-grayed” for AV Club. But I seem to recall seeing you still in the grays on an actual AV Club article still. Hope you can get that straightened out! I wish we…

A lyric video is the song, but the video aspect is just the lyrics of the song over some (usually) overly sentimental stock footage backgrounds. This lets them put out the song without putting out the music video. With the “music video” being what you’d see (in the long-ago times) on MTV.

It makes me sad that you are still in the gray. Have you written to the Kinja help “desk” yet to see about fixing it? I did and they were able to follow me on behalf of AV Club to at least get me out of the gray while they look at fixing my account merger.

This was a really great article Sean. Nate’s death, while not the season finale, has been the TV death I’ve found to be the most realistic so far and it has stuck with me for years. I just wish it had been published on a day when we could all take the time to read and appreciate it more fully instead of while we’re…