Spartan Girl

They could have just left it as a one-shot movie about a hitman avenging his puppy, and that would’ve been just fine.

Plus, if you worked for Planet Express you’d get to go on space adventures. Just saying… I’d also love to live with the Golden Girls.

Shazam: Fury of the Gods was shit, but I was happy to see Wonder Woman crash the party at the end.

Which made the reveal that it was auto pilot the whole time all the sweeter.

Ooh, fun idea! I second that I wouldn’t want to live in Stars Hollow (or any small town for that matter). I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in Sunnydale either (and not just because of the Hellmouth). I only would stay in Hawkins long enough to check out the Starcourt Mall and Scoops Ahoy, and then GFTO before the mall blew up lol. Gosh, now I’m wondering where in TV Land I’d want to live. Maybe in the Futurama version of Earth…

Yeah, the writers really dropped the ball right from the moment when Dawn became older than they originally intended, and it all went downhill from there. She did have some growth, but unfortunately her full potential to be great was usurped by The Potentials storyline. (Speaking of which, I hated all of them, not just Kennedy.)

Feeling sad about Michelle Trachtenberg, I actually rewatched Dawn’s first (full) episode on Buffy, and while I stand by what I said that deserved better writing than Whedon and the writers being too lazy to do the necessary edits to reflect Michelle’s older age…yeah, she really was really whiny and annoying in that episode. Don’t even get me started on her simpering over Xander. “Xander treats everyone like an equal. He doesn't look down on people.”

Exactly. While I didn’t like how the show acted like Sheldon was a weirdo for being uncomfortable with sex, when the time came, it was because he was ready. And they were both fine with the birthday arrangement.

Sheldon had his faults, but the whole plot of Amy being upset because Sheldon didn’t want to rush into a physical relationship has aged terribly, given what we know understand about asexuality. We aren’t meant to like it when guys pressure girls for sex, so why should the reverse situation be acceptable? Moreover, I also don’t like the “I can change him” character trope. People aren’t fix-it projects. Again, if a guy tried to fix a girl to his liking — as demonstrated with Charles and Diana on The Crown — we would all rightfully call him a controlling jerk. But a woman tries to do it to a guy, we’re somehow supposed to sympathize with her. This was called out on an episode of According to Jim of all shows: Cheryl gets Jim a painting kit for his birthday knowing full damn well he isn’t into art; she just wants to “inspire” him to get into art. Jim sees through the tactic, and tells Cheryl flat-out that he doesn’t appreciate it because it makes him feel that she’s giving a gift to the husband she wishes she had instead of the one she’s actually got. Cheryl realizes her folly and later apologizes with a gift that he’d actually like.

No, I meant if they would come back to do the epilogue fast forward scene. Woody can still play older Haymitch, and Josh and Jennifer would be older Peeta and Katniss.

Anytime Peter gets his comeuppance on Family Guy should be on this thread, but this one is one of the best:

I am just so done with the people that claim to hate Trump yet didn’t vote for Harris or spent more time running their mouth off about how horrible Biden and Harris were or blaming Democrats for everything to keep spreading voter apathy.

I wonder if Woody, Jennifer, and Josh will come back to cameo…

She still had two children who needed her. It looked like she was learning her lesson in CF, but after Prim died, she left Katniss alone in prison and later District 12 all because she just couldn’t bear the memories of Prim?! Sorry, a few tearful phone calls don’t make up for that. I also couldn’t help noticing parallels between Teen Haymitch and Gale. Haymitch was distrustful of Plutarch and the other Capitol people (for good reason) but he was able to eventually recognize that there were good albeit ignorant that didn’t deserve to be punished for the Capitol actions, while Gale saw everyone as complicit no matter what the circumstances and didn’t care if they got caught in the crossfire—which came back to burn him big time.

I rewatched a clip of the opening scene and paused on the horse and rider we only got a glimpse of while the flying monkeys were making their escape:

Ha. They’ll probably just double down.

There’s talk that they’re going back to Fox.

Loved how Emily lampshaded it to Lorelei in A Year in the Life: “Go back to your beloved town with its carnies and misfits and they can all console you and tell you how perfect you are.”

Noooooo!

Read it in less than a day, and do I have thoughts: In short, it wrecked me just as much as Mockingjay.

Yup. I have nothing against Mikey, but Demi Moore was robbed. If the Oscars wanted a surprise Best Actress win, why couldn’t it at least been Cynthia?

I’m almost afraid they’ll water it down because it’s the most brutal one yet. After I finished it, I felt like I needed a drink.

Having just watched the movie I wholeheartedly agree. Not to mention the fact that My only takeaway from that weird, weird movie is that Ani needs to pawn that diamond ring and use the money to get therapy and some self-respect.

I just watched it. Look, I don’t begrudge Mikey Madison her Oscar, but she didn’t blow me away. I kept waiting to see what made this movie so special that it won all the Oscars. It’s a good subversion of Pretty Woman I guess, but I’m with everyone else here in not liking it that much.