The funny thing about the conservative outrage is that Tarantino's "I stand for the murdered" statement could've been taken verbatim from any anti-abortion protest. For a guy who's known for saying some dumb, outrageous shit, it's probably the least inflammatory public statement he's ever made.

Plemons is also pretty heavy for his role in Bridge of Spies, which was odd, since the character was an elite Air Force pilot. I don't usually think of those guys as having a great variety of body types. Maybe that's just the way he is now.

You're forgetting bottomless Jesse Plemons in the bathroom…or maybe you aren't. Maybe you were just trying to. Anyway, this episode was definitely brought to us by butt crack.

But isn't that a good use of the trope? I think the implication there isn't that his Magical Indian Murdering Skills came in handy in Viet Nam, but rather that his fellow soldiers' racist belief in the trope made his tour a hellish cavalcade of murder that made him into the coldblooded killer he is today.

But isn't that a good use of the trope? I think the implication there isn't that his Magical Indian Murdering Skills came in handy in Viet Nam, but rather that his fellow soldiers' racist belief in the trope made his tour a hellish cavalcade of murder that made him into the coldblooded killer he is today.

I like the theory that it was an abduction, as shown by the time difference between his watch and the clock in the Waffle Hut.

It felt like they were invoking the trope, but the actual tracking didn't look terribly mystical. It was just good detective work. Once he found the glass from the headlight, it wasn't a big leap to him checking the body shops in town, and from there to the butcher shop and Ed's house.

Have you ever seen in soccer those moments when players dramatically fling themselves to the ground and writhe in pain even though nobody physically touched them? That was the CNBC debate. Ted Cruz gave a huge speech about how the liberal media never asks them substantial questions about policy…in response to a…

I think you missed the point of the background I gave. The writers aren't patting themselves on the back for making the disadvantaged non-brainiac kid the good guy. The comics that they are adapting made that a foregone conclusion. They had to work backward from that result. Creating a conflict with someone who's a…

The real frustrating thing about this episode was the fact that, four episodes into season two, the show's having a real hard time with the idea of any of the characters changing or moving away from their prescribed roles. Last episode, Joe's all broken up because he's lied to his daughter and fears losing her love…

The first thing Jax did when he met Stein was ask the STAR Labs team to fix his ACL so he could go back to football and get a college scholarship. If you expect to go to college on a full football scholarship, you have natural athletic ability. There was nothing assumed about his athleticism.

Jax's characterization is the show trying to get Firestorm back to his roots. The comic books' Ronnie Raymond was a high school C-student who got bonded to an intellectual snob. The relationship was kind of a proto-Walter White/Jesse Pinkman thing. Since they introduced TV Ronnie as a STAR Labs engineer who sacrificed…

There's a history of black people being medically experimented upon and having their genetic material stolen by scientists without their consent (see the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the Henrietta Lacks gene line). It was a weird, unethical choice for Barry to speed-steal anyone's blood. It was a choice that was made even…

Pretty sure Berlanti's type is guys. The dorky-clumsy-hot girl is a pop culture archetype at this point, and Berlanti knows who his viewers are.

The show was on a treadmill this week. We've had four episodes this season, and one was occupied with writing out Dad and Ronnie, and now another with replacing Ronnie. It lacked the humor of other universe-building episodes, like the Atom episode from last season.

I don't think there's any argument that Kubrik's film was ambiguous about Danny's (and Halloran's) psychic gifts. And that fact undercuts the ambiguity around Nicholson's insanity/possession by the Overlook. Once you have accepted one supernatural story element (psychic kid and cook), why resist the other (the hotel…

There's also a bit of a been-there-done-that when you learn that the center of the movie is the relationship with his daughter. That smells of Sorkin recycling himself, since he used Billy Beane's relationship with his daughter as the emotional throughline of Moneyball.

The film gives a pretty ugly accounting of Jobs, so half the obsessoids (the ones who are fans of the company) aren't interested in seeing it. The film's more aimed at the other half of the obsessoids (people who hate Apple and Jobs beyond any reasonable measure) but those people are just as well served by the…

If you're upset about spiritual mumbo-jumbo about the force, why do you even care about a Star Wars movie?

I wasn't offended or outraged by any of your remarks, and I wasn't aiming for offense with mine. The "you" I was referencing was the ostensibly not-homophobic Republican voters you and @wade8813 above you referenced in your comments, not you personally. If that wasn't clear enough, I apologize.