I'm from the future, and I think you're wrong. About all of it.

One of the accomplishments I'm most proud of in my life is reading the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy to my younger brother and sister when they were about nine and eleven, respectively. The older one was actually able to follow the story for the most part; I think the younger one just appreciated it as a long list…

Well, I guess now we know what happens when an unstoppable force hits an immovable object: they immediately start fucking each other's brains out.

I wouldn't buy a cocaine PSA from the Muppets, because I'm pretty sure at least half of them are on cocaine literally all the time.

Well, yes. The book is also primarily about the main character dealing with the fact that is mother is dying, something the trailer never even hinted at.

If this is faithful to the book at all, then we might end up with a "Where The Wild Things Are" problem here, where the trailers make it look like a delightful fantasy romp, but the film itself is traumatically emotional.

I think it was a joke on her part. The line was "Maybe we can watch that 'Vertigo' movie you're always telling me about." She was probably poking fun at her own well-documented obsession with the movie.

Okay, this is boring. Obviously if I continue to reply to you this will turn into another never-ending, unproductive non-conversation like the one from two weeks ago. Let the record show that I tried. See you, space cowboy.

I may indeed have phrased some of my arguments badly, and managed to get caught up in the debate, saying things a little more aggressively than I should have. I'll give you that. But I have problems with Sava's REASONING behind his opinions on the show. I don't mind that he didn't love Stakes, I'm annoyed because he…

I have a legit question for you: do you actually like this show? There's no games here, no false dichotomies, I'm not saying that if you disagree with me on a particular episode you must dislike the show, I'm not saying Sava dislikes the show, I'm not saying if you agree with Sava you dislike the show, I'm not saying…

Awesome! You're in good form today. I like this more open approach you're going with now: a few weeks back, you only vaguely implied that somehow my problems with Sava as a critic equaled a personal hatred of him, but now you're just outright saying it. And you're even inserting new sentences into my comment, because…

Ah, that's the Greg Philip I know and love. Go on, keep telling me how I'm the narrow-minded one here.

Disappointment is fine. My problem isn't with Sava not being blown away by the miniseries, it's that the reasons for his disappointment were the same silly ones he's had before. He tries to view every episode as a really simplistic metaphor, and so is disappointed every time there either isn't a metaphor, or he thinks…

This and Jurrasic Park comprise the short list of film adaptations I prefer to the original work. The whole framing device in the book never really did much for me, and I was always anxious to get back to the actual story and away from Goldman's meta-riffing. Basically, the movie is to me what Goldman's grandfather's…

"The first one was so perfect, that it makes total sense to try it again."
What?

Fair play to you, he was a fourth-grade teacher for years. Cranking out brilliant pop songs was more of a hobby for him until the mid-nineties. But at this point he's one of the most prolific songwriters of all time, and Guided By Voices are firmly part of the indie rock canon.

That comment made me envision an episode of JLU in which Dr. Doofenshmirtz is the main villain, and now I'm very sad because I know I will never see it.

That's fair; I was very tired and frustrated when I wrote that. My problem isn't really so much with Sava's perspective as it is with the fact that I don't entirely get what his perspective even is; he'll praise one episode and condemn another for the same things. But you're right, I should respect his opinion and…

I went a little mean there, which I shouldn't have. But I am getting sick of Sava's weird, weird perspective on the show. It's like as soon as the title sequence starts, he loses all interest in storytelling, and his sole purpose for watching becomes figuring out what other thing besides the characters and what…

Wild theory, but maybe Sava completely missed the point.
I mean, come on, Sava. Even this sum-up has bullshit like "They establish that vampirism=depression, but it's not ENOUGH actually-depression for me. They only bring it up at key moments in the story, instead of beating into my head constantly like good, subtle…