I love the extent to which your life revolves around George Lucas's career.

I'm not sure you can say that there is a vacuum between modern physics and the general public when there are hundreds of books published each year, some very successful, dedicated to explaining physics in non-mathematical terms. In fact given how specialised and arcane the mathematics and general principles of…

I think you'll find that Daredevil takes place in the city of Hell's Kitchen which has it's own independent media system apparently. It's kind of like what The Vatican would be if the pope liked splattering people's brains everywhere rather than attacking Tom Hanks with antimatter bombs and yelling at gays.

I think some of your criticisms of Daredevil are fair: they do take an almost pornographic relish in how violent they can be and it is not that much deeper than another superhero show after analysis.
However, I am astonished that you could claim that the pilots of Arrow and The Flash were anything other than insults…

Yeah, but we could soon run out of infinity at this rate.

Interestingly enough, 'Into The Ring' is also the name of my Matt Murdock/Agent Coulson slashfic.

I enjoyed it and appreciated its ambition but it's too flawed to be brilliant. Having said that, it's a million times the film that Skyfall is.

George trundles cautiously into a deserted office space, pizza box held aloft at shoulder height.

That doesn't sound like any 'us' I've ever met…

Obviously not, but I was addressing the legal argument, where the facts that
a) He didn't physically force her (as far as we know)
b)He made no explicit threat
would make it nigh on impossible to secure a conviction. The implicit power dynamics and her unhappiness obviously make that scene dodgy as fuck, just not…

No threat is ever actually vocalised though, from what I remember it was more of a kind of 'come on, you owe me' type of thing.

Well it's pretty much an explicit comparison isn't it? But the point of said comparison was to underline how intellectually lazy it is to resort to casual racial generalizations without thinking them through. I don't think Will Riker[…] was conflating the historic and current oppression experienced by black men with…

You just rumbled one of the latest in the Michigan Tourism Boards subtle yet sophisticated attempts to make them seem interesting.

#yesallwatchers

'The books were beloved and had won tonnes of awards before they were made into books '
That is truly impressive. Martin does not get enough credit.

Helsinki has volcanoes? Or am I missing something?

The A.V. Club
Please kill … reality

It's a joke. To say a joke is 'too shallow and silly to justify itself' seems an odd complaint when the point of it is to be deliberately silly. Unless it's a joke designed to denigrate a particular race or one that is unconsciously prejudiced (which I don't think this is) I don't see the harm.

Nevertheless. The turtle moves.

The comments section on Guardian articles is usually strangely dominated by people who hate the Guardian and everything it stands for.