He’s just a boy in love - he can’t be held responsible for his actions!

then blames her death on her thoughtless failure to be a hardbitten action TV star with a flamethrower

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Immediately recognizing and refusing to capitulate to the evils of Nazism hardly seems like nothing to me.  If more people had done that, then no one would have needed saving in the first place.

The usual definition of a martyr is someone who dies as a consequence of refusing to renounce their beliefs.  

One thing Gilmore Girls always did well was show both sides of an argument. You understood why Loreli reacted petulantly to her mother and you understood why Emily reacted forcefully to Loreli. No one was right and no one was wrong. The characters were simply trapped in their narrow POV. The way we all are.

It certainly feels as if we're supposed to read it that way, based on the crowds very enthusiastic reaction. I have to imagine a Black crowd in the 60s would be a lot more scandalized or upset if they read her jokes as saying Shy is gay. But the audience is laughing easily. Not a single sign of tension anywhere.

I don’t agree.

Unrelated, but, that story arc from the Spider-Man cartoon was my dream adaptation for a Spider-Man movie when Sony and Marvel made a deal.

In an episode featuring giant squids dropped on New York, consumer cloning, pills that contain memories, and a rescue SOS being created on one of Jupiter’s moons with clone bodies, a freshman U.S. Senator whining about being given a seat on the Appropriations Committee was by far the hardest thing to believe.

Tracy: “Wait, is that a Daytime Emmy?”

Admittedly, being a hero is usually a crazy thing. Telling wannabe heroes that they should give up is also called being a good friend. The vast majority of the time, they’re right, and the wannabe just dies/fails horribly. It comes off as shallow and cliche in the way that most legit life advice does, but that’s…

WHY did they not give him a kazoo??

I’d say this type of analysis of horror, particularly horror that predates this trope/analysis (modern horror, particularly with prestige aspirations, often incorporates it), misses the central mechanics and role of horror. Jaws wasn’t the product of some cultural hatred of beaches and the ocean and Psycho wasn’t…

“Name a crime, I have an alibi for it. I have alibis for things that aren’t even illegal!”

It’s pretty much a forgone conclusion that Jug’s new prep school has a quasi-mystical secret society that’s “controlled Riverdale since its founding” right? The writers prob have the Skull and Bones wiki page bookmarked.

Roger Ailes is dead.

I think one big strength of the Godfather is how it helped create dual-track pop-culture.  Where a work exists with profound artistic vision on one level, and can also be enjoyed by idiots who miss the meaning altogether.  (How many bros want to be Michael Corleone?)  From here, we got, linearly, Goodfellas and the…

Dinklage is a professional actor. His job is literally to play the character as written. I’m not sure what you think he was supposed to do instead.

I have to second Danette Chavez about Jerome’s performance in When They See Us. It’s a weird thing to say, but watching a lot of prison movies and tv shows has kind of desensitized me to how frightening and lonely such a place can be. Jahrrel gives a harrowing, realistic reminder of what going to prison can actually…