I'm from the Bay Area (I'm a native - I was born here, my parents were born here, half of my grandparents were born here) and work in tech. If you see my post from above, the African American population in Silicon Valley in general is small. The South Bay, where the HQs for most major tech companies (Google, Facebook,…

Totally. The lack of larger, or even just sizes outside the mid range, in brick and mortar stores seems to be more apparent lately. That could just be my perception but I find it odd. I wear a "straight" size, but it's on the larger end and I feel like racks are always flowing with mid-sizes. Typical rack at…

I totally did the same thing and just caught up. This show is incredible!

I guess I can see your point but ultimately don't sympathize with it. I find Camille pretty darn sympathetic.

Wow, I couldn't possibly disagree more. When your children are in their freaking 30s and living on their own, and you're getting too old to take care of a huge house, of course you can decide to sell it and move on. Parenthood is not a life sentence in prison where you need to die right where your grown kids want you.…

That book is the first time I remember crying at a book! My father tried to ask me about it and I just laid my head down and cried. Stupid books for kids!!

I actually have to routinely block out knowledge that this scene exists. I got here in the comments and my boyfriend had to endure my sobbed, "WHY DOESN'T ANYONE WANT HIM?! HE'S FREE AND PEOPLE WALK BY THIS HOMELESS KITTEN IN THE RAIN?!?!?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH EVERYONE! I WANT HIM. HE'S AN ORANGE CAT AND SO CUTE. WHY…

That makes me sad. Even if the actress isn't great, I'm a big fan of Sif and sad she does so little in the Thor movies.

It's interesting to see any of the Paintball episodes talked about as the best or favourites concept episodes just because the paintball stuff doesn't crack my personal top 3 concept episodes, either. I'm a bigger fan of the Goodfellas "Contemporary American Poultry", Ken Burn's "Pillows & Blankets", and My Dinner…

Embarrassing is exactly the word for that movie. I was taken to it by people I'd just met, and had to try and be polite. I had trouble looking directly at the screen during it and spent most of its run time studying the floor or the ceiling of the theatre. Awful.

Oreo pudding is totally cheating when it comes to Midcentury cooking nightmares. Pineapple Upside-down Cake almost is as well just because we know it's great here in The Future. My point is simply there are so many disgusting (or at least, sound disgusting on paper) desserts that needed exploring here. There are not…

I really wish the few times Silicon Valley is portrayed they could at least get the demographics a tiny bit closer to reality. I was born in the Bay Area, (I also happen to be a female in engineering at a tech company) and while I'm used to women being invisible across all media, I always feel jarred seeing the racial…

Everyone has this well covered, but another reason may be to also keep this adult novel series separate from Harry Potter as much as possible thematically. I saw a few articles trying to be cheeky ("We're not in Hogwarts anymore!") about how characters in "The Casual Vacancy" swore, talked about condoms, etc. If she…

Oh totally. If he's "Hank Pym" but with some of Lang's qualities, that would work equally well. Pym from the comics is just not a charismatic guy and Paul Rudd can't help oozing charm so it seems like a strange fit without a re-imagining of Pym.

I really hope he's Scott Lang. I love Paul Rudd, but I just don't want him to be a joyless character like Hank Pym. Ant-Man played for laughs could be a fun movie, but I just would rather it not be with Pym…

That is very sad to hear. I was hoping the second movie might, somehow, don't ask me how, rise above the first one. I am the exact target audience for "The Hobbit" - I spent my teens madly obsessed with the LotR books and movies - and I hated the first "Hobbit" installment.

I'm 100% not against the idea of a Disney movie with more POC (I've been dying for them to finally include a Latin American story to the "Princess" pantheon, or adapt another Asian story, or actual African mythology), but the Sami are not POC as I understand that term. They are indigenous people, yes, but they are…

I agree. I was at first annoyed they took away the fairytale title ala "Tangled", but as someone who grew up loving HCA and "The Snow Queen", this movie has barely even heard of "The Snow Queen." I'm happy it distanced the association as much as possible.

I think that's a really interesting way to think of it - that both men have their view of what women embody and that's how they end up as characters. I can totally see it.

Precisely. I wouldn't call RTD or Moffat better than the other when it comes to the female characters. The problems were slightly different, but I can't say I found one approach "better" than the other.