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I've never been *more* disappointed in Joss Whedon than when I found out he was responsible for the line, "What happens to a toad when it is struck by lightning?" That said, the first X-Men movie just looks better with the passage of time, as our nostalgia for young Hugh Jackman and Anna Paquin and the rest grows.…

It's a great book. Ness is a huge fan of Buffy, and it shows. It reads like a novel-length version of the one episode where Xander has an adventure, but is surprisingly affecting in a very young adult way.

I am so sad to learn that Person of Interest is ending.

There's a weird synergy between Brandon's music and the Harry Potter books. Time Magazine once wrote, "Brandon Flowers sings as though he’s actually in the middle of a battle, belting out emotional platitudes over explosions," which is how the climax of every book always felt to me.

I'd pay to see Harry flying across Hogwarts on a hippogriff for nine and a half minutes while Oasis blared ♫ All Around the World ♫. also Jarvis Cocker sang a song in the fourth movie and I feel they should've taken this further.

there are SEVERAL movies that could use a good Killers song, notably Boyhood and the middle Harry Potter movies.

My terrible roommate introduced me to Coldplay, Oasis and the Counting Crows.

I tried watching a terrible anime version of Poirot in which Miss Marple and Poirot are both related to a little girl who has a cute duck sidekick. (writing that out was almost physically painful). I turned it off in disgust and decided to watch David Suchet's Poirot, which ended up being my favorite show.

I hate this band so much (Don't Stop Believin' grudgingly excepted). Steve Perry's solo work is legitimately great, but his band is the essence of soulless corporate rock.

Todd VanDerWerff wrote a great article about Richard and the first season of Survivor back in August, arguing that it paved the way for Donald Trump.

I love fantasy, I wore a cape for an entire year after reading the Harry Potter books, and I don't get the love for Game of Thrones. I've *tried.* I read half the first book and watched the entire first season. I just don't understand.

Sometimes it works. When Michael Crichton wrote The Lost World, he brought Malcolm back from the dead, even though he had died quite gruesomely near the end of Jurassic Park. The sequel assumed readers would be more familiar with Spielberg's movie, and largely ignored the plot of the original novel.

Through the Looking Glass was written almost a decade after Alice in Wonderland, but is thematically and atmospherically richer than the original and just sadder and more beautiful in every way. (I haven't seen the Tim Burton movie and have no intention of seeing the sequel).

I loved Catch-22 as a teenager - my BFF and I used to read the long, circular dialogue scenes aloud - but when I picked up Closing Time I was disappointed. In the opening pages the book repeats several of the best jokes from Catch-22, but somehow they aren't as funny as they were in the original book.

the Order of the Phoenix
the Republic party
everyone in the Mahabharata

The Two Towers, The Return of the King (even if it was the highly truncated version released in theaters) and several of the Harry Potters, but especially the fourth one. Those midnight showings were some of my favorite memories of the 2000s.

Lord Business is *no worse* than anyone currently running, and would give us Taco Tuesdays.

when did Matt LeBlanc get so old

that was a shockingly dirty Animaniacs joke