But Mario Lopez IS our generation's Vince Fontaine. He's a professional presenter. I guess they could have gotten Ryan Seacrest, but I am sure he's way more expensive.

Isn't this a spin-off then? Not a reboot.

Pun intended?

HA!

I think they should have kept him around. In the comics, he factors into Thanos's plans for the Infinity Stones. I would have liked to see that.

I, for one, would like to see more straight people on TV.

Ya think? I feel like from the article, the issue is that it's too controlled.

You made it further than me. I thought the book was horribly dull, then I found out they made the 1 boring book into not 1, but 3 movies! Hard pass.

Yeah, I misread. I thought that they were saying that the word "emoji" was the word of the year, which I thought was totally fine. I wouldn't equate this to making airborne ebola, but I am pretty against it.

Who should? Also, what is a poptimist?

No, I sure can't. Emoji is definitely a word. However, the emoji of "laughing while crying" is not a word. It is a symbol. It's no more a word than $ or &.

That's entirely possible.

Oh, I think "emoji" is a perfectly legitimate new word. It satisfies a linguistic gap in that people need a word to describe those little faces. However an actual emoji, that one or any other one, is not a word and thus should not qualify as word of the year. Just like how I get pissed when Time uses nebulous concepts…

I must offer my apologies. I thought that "emoji" was the word. But an emoji is the word? Emojis aren't even words, they're pictures. I'm with you.

Honest question. When IS language allowed to change? We may think emoji is a ridiculous word right now, but so was e-mail once upon a time. Now it's just email and is way more common than mail. Very little of our vocabulary actually dates back to the original English speakers. So where is the line drawn? As an English…

And asexual.

I like her music, honestly.

Good point! It's weird that they had an openly trans "star," an openly gay singer, singing a song about being in love with a man, but having 2 men dance together is too much?

Artistry aside, you can really hear her belt out some of the notes that she does and say she has a crippling lack of talent? Again, I am not accounting for taste in music. You can hate all her songs if you wish. You may hate her personality or creative direction. But the woman has talent.

You're still being super judgmental about me liking something you don't.