Scope. Primer is intended as, well, a primer to all of a creator or movement or genre's major works and themes. It's intended to have a more objective and overarching tone. Gateways is, at the core, one person's recommendation for where you should start with a given thing, and it's intended as a shorter, more…

Y'know, I suggested "Sandman" for that dreams inventory and was supposed to write it up, but when it came down to it and I read the other entries, I realized that the series spends much, much less time in dreams than virtually anything on that list. It spends a bunch of time in the Realm Of Dream, but that isn't…

"Dream Country" IIRC is a bunch of stand-alone issues that involve the Endless but don't really participate in an overarching plot. Which makes it a good book to pick up at random to get the tone of Gaiman's fables, but it won't really introduce you to any story arcs.

I just posted it because Michaelangelo didn't have access and wasn't in the byline menu, I presume since he isn't a TV club regular. We'll get him added properly tomorrow and fix the byline, and then you'll only have two names to confuse you.

See above, smartypants. You were BOTH beaten to this joke.

"Unless he went to the same school as this chick since the 4th grade(and had classes with her every one of those years), it seems highly unlikely he'd still be obsessing over her. "

She and Krige are both pretty minimally in this movie, so if you're going just to see her, prepare for a long wait between her cameo at the beginning and her scene at the end.

Waking Life, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, and Eraserhead were all considered for this inventory, but we were looking for stories where there was less debate and interpretation involved — in these stories, there is always actually a literal, obvious dreamer. If we included all films that are surreal or have dream…

Huh. You should maybe see a doctor about that lack of stamina.

It's a production still. These things are sent to us; we don't modify them in any way.

I vote for "Feed" by Mira Grant, myself. It's a novel that came out earlier this year and is as much about the future of journalism as the future of zombies. I'm not even that big of a zombie fan, and I loved that book.

All 3-D forever is going to look awesome by comparison now that I've seen "Last Airbender" in 3-D.

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Hear hear.

I think it has more to do with the challenge of distilling close to eight hours of TV (the show's entire first season) down to a 104-minute movie. A large part of the problem is the way this reads like really awkward Cliffs Notes, where the only way to cover all the material is just to have the cast members say things…

I think Rory Cochrane's bug-eyed (no joke intended) performance highlights the "funny bug problem" idea, but apart from his goofy expression, I didn't see anything humorous about that sequence in the film. The moment where he's staring at the dog and bugs pop out all over it is just horrific. So is the extreme…

That's one of various things in the book that I don't feel like I ever really unraveled. I felt like Fred finding the change on video was an indicator that it was more of a real, objective experience than anything drug-addled Bob Arctor could have experienced. Maybe the point was, no, it wasn't; the change is so…

Also, it's perfectly fine to acknowledge that you tried something and honestly didn't like it. When we did "Little, Big," I respected the book's accomplishments, but I rarely ever enjoyed it. And given some of the enthusiasm on display for it, I felt guilty too. But the fact is that not everything is to everyone's…

Interesting proposition, well-argued. You may well have just won.

Re: "Is a division happening again here, is Arctor's half of the brain becoming two halves again, creating a new Fred?"