I disagree about a few things. The first and easiest to point out is that I’m okay with a little mystery that can be solved in the next movie. Why did it take R2-D2 so long before he powered up? The answer is actually in the Visual Dictionary, and it’s what my husband and I had theorized, but it would have been nice…

I agree. I think the only nice one is Hephaestus.

Perhaps the episode isn’t really about Sadie, but about what Steven learns about himself when he takes over Sadie’s song. Steven gets to see how much he projected his own dreams and enthusiasms onto Sadie, who didn’t feel the same way, and when he steps on stage in her place, the complete satisfaction of the crowd…

More specifically, for being raped in Athena’s temple. That said, I think the video is sweet.

I love the podcast (and I have trouble with any media that is solely listening) and I am hoping that the parody level will be maintained in the book. Of course, I won’t know if it’s worthy of Classic status until October:

Aquaman has become a pro-wrestler, complete with championship title belt.

There’s also all the great romances that center around Alexander the Great and his mother Olympias, wherein he flies and is fathered by Zeus in the form of a snake. Alexander was not afraid to create his own legend and encouraged the rumor that his father was Zeus, so I’m not sure where it would fall in the realm of…

As a Gen Xer, I can clearly remember the costs of public college for me, which were under $5000 a year for tuition—something that can realistically be paid during a school year. As both a current (grad) student and a teacher, college costs don’t even compare. The boom in college attendance and the removal of…

In defense of Radiohead, OK Computer is a great album, though tending toward depression. I’ll just claim Green Day (who grew up as I did and became political) and Pearl Jam instead of Kurt Kobain.

There are a lot of reasons for this behavior that are likely biological. Studies have shown that teens produce more melatonin later in the day, making it difficult for them to fall asleep early. This is a natural part of adolescence but we as a society fight against it, and instead call them out for being lazy or…

I think of Seth Rogan and James Franco as something along the lines of my generation's Cheech and Chong, which means I watch their movies for fun and humor and not much more. I think it's a mistake to look for deep meaning in most of their films, and I don't say that with negativity. Sometimes I want to watch…

As a lead in, this only loosely qualifies as a fan theory because I'm not really a fan of the Hunger Games series and I really just changed one aspect of it to make the series better, but I think that the entire trilogy would be much improved if it were to proceed like this:

Eureka's Dr. Holly Martin threw me. Poor Fargo!

The ending of AI was appropriate to the story being told—a new adaptation of Pinocchio. If the movie had ended at what I have dubbed "the first ending," then Pinocchio would have remained in the belly of the whale, so to speak. He is brought out of the whale, however, and, in his own imagination, made into a real…