I might even suggest that the art was connected to the book after it was painted. As in "Let's look at what we have and slap it on the cover."

Eh. In a zombie apocalypse you'd still be able to grow crops and stuff. Zombies wouldn't bother the crops and, assuming slow zombies, they would easier to keep away from your farm than crows.

Wait, aren't the misogynists all portrayed as assholes and the movie populated with strong women as both hero and villains who aren't twentysomethings in bikinis? I find it hard to believe that you can find enough sexism to outweigh the sheer adult female badassery.

Are you sure that she isn't laughing at Mona Sterling for failing to keep her husband from straying?

Turning into the far lane drives me absolutely crazy. If I am on a two-lane turn next to someone I am always paranoid that they are going to hit me.

Strangely it makes her look even more like Sigourney Weaver.

I remember this one time I was at the mall and some guy came up and told me he wanted to fix the dent in my pickup (which I like, because the dent, which isn't that big, makes me not care about further flaws). He went on about how really cheap the job would be. It was totally like "16 shells from a thirty ought six."

Had they not been blindfolded, the gentleman would have been too distracted to compete.

I hear that argument a lot, but the Ang Lee stuff has emotional weight that seems to be weighed in these selections.

Well, it is kind of Asian fantasy. Instead of a magic sword or wizardly powers, the conceit is that a particular style of fighting gives one a magic level of ability. I mean, Pai Mei can stand on a sword being held horizontally. That's magic, or at least psionics.

It is a really, really good movie. Chop socky aficionados disparage it because it uses techniques that had been done in flashier ways in other films, but it was an actual good movie that contained the wirework and fencing as an integral part of the plot. The others can't always say that.

Huh. The bad guy as many, many clear chances to stab the hero to death, uses a light sword to hack down a giant planter full of plants, constantly hacks with a thrusting weapon and the fight involves many camera setups and was almost certainly filmed over multiple days. Mind you, I liked it and it was cool but I'll…

This is ideal for many plants. Many others want to be directly seeded. Very fast growers like spinach and radishes.

Well, Vader would still be more machine than woman, right?

I think that the pronoun is he in his case. There are a lot of points on the line between genders, and I think that I read that he identifies as male.

Aren't all the fun/awesome parts of Highlander the cheesy bits? It's a romp. The Kurgan is funny. It is a glorious guilty pleasure. Who the heck wants to see yet another meditation on what a curse it would be to live forever?

Jayne wasn't really a sidekick anyway. Zoe was a sidekick. In some ways, she seemed like someone who had graduated from sidekick. Like, she was a sidekick back in their days in the way, but now she has moved on. She is still a friend and confidant, but as part of the crew she has her own husband and her own life.

Data is awesome, but he is not really party of a buddy dynamic the way, say, Robin is.

Inscrutable has been used a lot in regards to Asians and their supposedly-mysterious ways. It is only moderately racist when applied to Asians, and not always then.

I do not think that the idea is that we are supposed to be nonplussed about depictions of racism. The idea is that authors actually commit racism and then a thinking, nonracist person has to at least decide whether or not to be judgmental.