Yeah, I think that was the implication, that he remembered the fireworks. And it's not unheard of for people to retain simple memories like that - dramatic images that don't quite make sense. My earliest memory was passing through a strange, futuristic-seeming tunnel of some kind. For many years I didn't even realize…

So the plot works because the ultimate ruler of this entire civilization is a complete moron? You state exactly the problem here: "get in line, or…" Or what? The problem with Snowe's authoritarian brutality is that it's utterly random, or simply universal. ALL of the districts are starved and oppressed, not just the…

Fortunately, Oliver isn't difficult to replace: http://www.thedailyshow.com…

My favorite Helms is taking on all the 'helpful' reporters during Katrina. "Sorry Jon, I can't talk now, I'm orally siphoning water back into the Gulf."

I hate the chicken thing. It's a cheap tool poorly wielded, and I intend to go right on hating it. But…. that is a pretty clever explanation you've got there. It helps. Perhaps if the filmmakers had thought of it, the idea could have been worked in more organically.
Yes, indeed. I think what bugs me most is the utterly…

Without picking a fight, I just want to go on record here as someone who fucking LOVES Lost World. Yes, it's bad, by the book. But it's bad in that unpretentiously joyful, self-indulgent B-movie spirit, like an elephant rolling carefree in the mud. I think the first JP covers the thematic ground as thoroughly as any…

I very much agree with this, including that Hobbes would be easier to voice. Hobbes is at least a specific character, seen from a specific point-of-view (Calvin's). Calvin, however, is seen from within his own mind, where he exists as a mix of overlapping and apparently antithetical qualities, from which stem the…