I haven't read HBP since it came out, but my recollection of it is that the ultimate point of Fleur's storyline in the book is that Mrs. Weasley and Ginny and Hermione were all wrong about Fleur—that they were prejudging her as being shallow just because she was pretty and not someone they got along with. Rowling's…

I agree, fundamentally, that there is no story that hasn't earned academic analysis. But sometimes, something can capture one's imagination without being deep, and without being good. No one's under any obligation to analyze anything. You've indicated elsewhere that you try to turn off your critical brain as a viewer,…

They did not play a suspense game. There were exactly two reactions to the Glenn fake-out: 1. "Oh no, Glenn's dead!" and 2. "Bullshit, he's not dead, he just rolled under the dumpster." Exactly zero people were in suspense, wondering whether Glenn was alive or dead, or how he was going to get out of this one.

Yeah, he was. I mean, I didn't watch, but I know he was on that episode.

So, Damon Lindelof made this comment to Alan Sepinwall in response to tonight's episode of The Leftovers (SPOILERS for The Leftovers, duh, but you should scroll down if you don't care about Leftovers spoilers, 'cause it's great):
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I'm not insufferable, I'm amazing.

CALLED IT.

I hadn't been aware of that particular comics trivia, and now… I am. Apparently Green Arrow's chili once reminded Batman that he wasn't a god?

HolsGG's and my Chromecast is actually named "Wendy Miracle."

Oliver Queen makes a spectacular chicken cordon bleu.

"The awesomeness trumps the nonsense" is pretty much the motto of House Flash.

Major and Liv can solve their sex problems by having Cisco visit from The Flash and vibe them both.

Well that, certainly, is correct.

It legitimately didn't make any sense not to tell Iris. She was investigating metahumans, just like Patty, but unlike Patty, she wasn't armed. And she'd been kidnapped at least once. (Maybe more? I'm fuzzy on the first half of last season.) Maybe she couldn't have been a huge asset or whatever, but not telling her was…

I mean. They passed that point with Iris in like the fifth episode of season one, but they still managed to drag it out for a whole year.

Everyone, in every timeline, is more fun when they know that Barry is The Flash.

SHIELD is such a weird show. 95% of the time, it's a little bit bland. I go through episodes grasping for some kind of detail to latch onto.

They're at the pole. I'm horrible with spatial stuff, so I can't say for 100% certain that that makes sense, but I know that weird stuff starts happening with sunrise/sunsets at the poles of planets. Presumably this planet has a much longer year than Earth does.

It was "in the style of" Veronica/Logan. That doesn't mean that Major is better than Logan, or that he's worse. It just means that it was totally a Veronica/Logan thing to do.

I feel like Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright are personally victimizing me with this Major storyline. And also every other Major storyline.