Yeah, you're right. I wasn't sure about the coma part.

Missed the best line, IMHO: "a coma gave me abs?"

Regarding A. - Wha? The movie follows the book incredibly faithfully and was written by the novel's author. Asking the author to do rewrites that shift away from the source material out of discomfort with the implications/themes of the source material is a terrible idea.

The gag that an awesome way to hurt a man is to use hormones to make him act more feminine and change his body to be more feminine? That and the three-way with the bearded drag queen thing.

Don't forget transphobic!

Right, because in no way do we have a religious fundamentalist population in the U.S, or large numbers of people who say, believe UFOs are real because they've seen them on TV.

They were a majority within their polity. And their victims weren't and that mattered.

I'm the one giving out passes? You're the one who seems fine with any kind of historical libel as long as it's "art."

Yes they were - the women who were accused were, in the main, elderly poor women on the margins of society. Easy targets.

No, I don't think it is besides the point. MacBeth is not a group of people who were murdered en masse by their government, nor are there present-day MacBeths who are affected by cultural depictions, and Shakespeare scholars routinely describe the work as a piece of Stuart propaganda.

MacBeth wasn't a victim of historical persecution tho.

Shooting Hitler still counts as punching up.

Inglorious Basterds didn't suggest that Hitler was right, tho.

Groceries as I recall.

Yeah, I thought the same thing. A big part of that exchange is that, for all of Tyra's class issues (alcoholic, barely employed mom, absent father, stripper sister whose life she's desperate to avoid), because she's white, she's used to hanging around white middle class families who will give her a ride despite her…

Last word is that Bendis and FX are taking another run at it with a new scriptwriter.

Agreed. There's no explanation for Dickie Bennett other than deities looking out for children, drunks, and fools.

Something tells me that New Jersey cons didn't share the same mores as the Bible belt.

It does in his case, but not in other cases - which is partly what makes these explanations so difficult to analyze.

I read that one; not bad. But like I said, I have a problem with the hermaneutics of suspicion thing.