Anime did not always sell itself on its Japanese identity, because that makes it less marketable. Early anime was sold to audiences outside of Japan, but only if anything overtly tying the anime to Japan could be scrubbed out. So: references were changed, names were changed, locations were changed. Even if it meant…

You make an excellent point. As a nanny, I have come to completely despise all children's tv and movies! I don't want my charges watching movies and shows about death all of the time. But there's no real value AT ALL like even conflict resolution is barely touched. I don't encourage t.v. watching anyway, but it's…

Dear lord that's a horrible thought.... That this is actually R2D2 after 30 years of "upgrades"... That would be the worst thing to happen since Jar Jar....

Did the same with Interstellar. Only watched the teaser and the first trailer. Based on that I was already convinced to watch it. Glad I did, because there were a lot of interesting scenes and concepts that were shown in the other trailers that worked much better when surprised by them on the big screen.

Yay! Jingle all the Way! This and Xmas w/ Cranks are my favs. Oh and Christmas Vacation.

Maybe if he bought 99 Nokia phones instead, they could have been... N-Gage'd

Watch It If You Like: Big Bang Theory

Pretty sure if anyone saw someone of any race carrying an AR-15 into a Starbucks, they'd run. Terrible example.

I mean of course, yes, there are lots of differences, but the differences I'm interested in are primarily related to trying to understand why Tsarnaev and Holmes aren't dead and Brown is. Tsarnaev isn't dead because he was hiding behind cover while the cops were shooting at him and Holmes isn't dead because by the…

The entire nation was watching James Holmes's arrest. There was camera footage of his "escort" that was being live-fed to media outlets across the country. I know the point you're trying to make here, but it doesn't quite work. One of the problems that another commenter raised is that there is not (that we know of)…

I think the comparison to Tsarnaev and Holmes may not be quite the clearest.

Can you explain why Mike Brown was gunned down in the street while James Eagan Holmes, who killed twelve people and injured 70 others after opening fire in a movie theater, was escorted into a squad car?

ALRIGHTY. Time to share the greatest video ever once more. Gather round children.