". . . Is Arya Stark gonna have to choke a bitch?!"

It's the best rapping on the AV Club since Rapping Jake Sisko.

Agent Better Pinocchio than Ultron.

Yeah, with respect, I'm not even sure about that. I had to give up on that show myself when Kara's sister went Jack Bauer on a suspect, for the second time in two weeks, on a show that is ostensibly about Supergirl, when one of the regular characters is a telepath.

I'm an old, so it's still no "Yesterday's Enterprise".

Mrs. Pence knew that serious action would be called for when she arrived at home that night, only to find that her husband had mixed a scoop of regular in with the decaf after 4 p.m.

Dan Stevens, I choose you!

I see your Pulp Fiction, and I raise you Galaxy Quest. Galaxy Quest took absolutely all of the best parts of the 90's and put them in a blender: nostalgia, buddy comedies, pop culture movies that nevertheless still had coherent narratives, Alan Rickman and Sam Rockwell, and shamelessly ripping off IP's.

I have used The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as my go-to "movie to show people who don't like Westerns". I have yet to meet one person who doesn't watch it and say that it was a fantastic film. In my view, it was John Ford's best work, even better than The Searchers.

Well, there's also the fact that a film can have explicit religious overtones without being a Christ allegory. Which, given all the "You're a Jesus, Harry!" scenes we've had out of Hollywood, is a refreshing both in its change of pace and in its retreat from borderline blasphemy (Jesus was most emphatically not a…

It was the most character-appropriate choice you could make. If you're going to kill Wolverine, the last thing you should do is announce to him that you've done it, unless your life insurance is paid up and you're trying to make your suicide look completely natural.

Which in itself was a microcosm of the tragedy of their relationship: Charles starts off the movie by calling Wolverine a disappointment, when what he's ultimately blaming Logan for is the incident that Charles himself caused, and Logan has been patiently trying to prevent a recurrence of.

Oh, pshaw. Good art doesn't spring fully-formed from the creator's head like Athena. Its inspiration comes in dribs and drabs from all the art that a creator has to learn in order to channel and harness his creative potential. The test for good art isn't whether it's completely unlike anything that came before it.…

I'm not saying you're wrong. But I am saying that, even at this basic level of factual analysis, you're still overthinking it.

Admittedly, this was a parallel development that was happening across multiple influential shows. Just off the top of my head, both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5 were pioneers in deep continuity that predated Buffy. Although admittedly, it's not entirely clear how much direct influence either of those shows…

Yeah, well I would be too, if I shared character traits with Harry Kim.

Batman's basically all they've got. If you want to explain what's happening with the DC, all you need to realize is that five years ago, WB had dump trucks of money pouring in from the Nolanverse and the Harry Potter franchise. And then both franchises ended.

Captain America: The First Avenger.

Yeah, I'm still going to allow it. I'm still recovering from Assassin's Creed, and I only got through by MST3K'ing all the ways those goons proved to be the worst assassins ever.

My dad was really great about assuming that if I was adult enough to ask the question, I was adult enough to get an answer. But he did pull the "I'll tell you when you're older" stunt once. And it was when I asked why he found a scene in "A League of Their Own" so funny. Specifically, the scene where Rosie O'Donnell's…