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AMEN! There is only one small part of that book that I enjoy, and it's when the Joker comes out of his years long catatonia upon learning Bats is back. That was cool the rest sucked ass. I do like Year One, though I hate that he turned my girl Selina into a hooker. My big one is Superman. I hate him, I hate his villains, I hate his love interests, and I hate his stories (save for Red Son, that was a nice twist). I appreciate his role in the history of comic books but the stupid Jesus metaphor makes me crazy. The only times I can tolerate him is when he guests in a Batman comic, as Bats' cynicism plays off his annoying optimism well, and when Henry Cavill plays him (which is more about Cavill than the movie). I will say that I find it impressive that DC managed to make Supes even worse when New 52 came out, and I didn't think I could hate him any more than I did. I agree on Wolverine getting overplayed. He needs to be put on the shelf for at least a decade. Let Marvel focus on everyone else in their universe and then bring him back in a supporting capacity only. Less really should be more where he's concerned.

She's Janet's. In the episode Blanche is struggling to find fun things for them to do (her idea of entertaining a seven year old was taking her to the docks to meet young sailors and convincing her to call her 'Sis' instead of 'Grandma') and she tells Rose and Dorothy that "[she] promised Janet her little girl would have fun this week". Since this happened in the final season I just tell myself that this granddaughter was born after Janet and Michael had their second honeymoon in season 1. The stranded island episode aired after Blanche started menopause, so her tubes could have been tied between the two quite easily. I do agree on the absurdity of menopausal Blanche getting her tubes tied, but maybe this was another way for her to demonstrate her denial that she wasn't young anymore? She did, you can see it just behind them when they start dancing. It blends with their outfits and is easy to miss. That was the first clue that he was there to scam Rose. Blanche was always telling stories about her bad relationships with her sisters so I just chalk it up to them having a falling out after Virginia healed from the surgery. They even admit during the episode they'd never had a normal conversation their entire lives and only knew how to demean each other and fight. Falling back into old habits, especially since they don't live in the same place and can't practice new ones, makes sense. Blanche might only have a shower, but this does lead to Rose claiming the deep end of the tub as hers and them racing to the bathroom, so I'm ok with this one due to the funny.

Beautifully put and I will be stealing this for all of my future discussions where one side tries to claim that the real world shouldn't apply to the sci fi/fantasy/supernatural shows I watch.

As I recall, the deluminator got its name during the reading of Dumbledore's will while it was merely being described in the first book. So, keeping in mind that the real reason is that Jo probably hadn't intended on naming it until she put pen to paper for book 7, the way she structured it does work. When we first encounter it, we are brand new to the wizarding world, mere pages ahead of Harry, so calling it a Put-Outer and describing its function makes perfect sense. Dumbledore giving it the proper name in his will, after we'd spent six books immersing ourselves in the world with Harry, also makes perfect sense. Now, if McGonagall or Dumbledore had referred to it themselves, I'd be annoyed too but Jo made it work once she decided to give it a proper name.

That would be AMAZING!

Definitely K, G, and the writers. I've tweeted Sara support to them plus Caity, DC entertainment, and Berlanti since the finale. The more vocal (via social media, cons, etc) we are, the better, so I think we're safe submitting questions to all. As for the organization, I think duplicate questions are fine but if there are pressing ones we need to make sure they get asked so that we know they're out there.

Same goes for Natalie Portman and Claire Danes.

Kim's inappropriate (for Bonnaroo- white pants and heels, really?) outfit is the best thing that can happen for Kanye's press right now. 'Roo goers have long memories and we still remember him making us wait until 430am before he deigned to grace us with his presence (and no apology in sight) at the 2008 festival. All day the next day the 90000+ attendees greeted each other with "Fuck Kanye!" It brought us together in a way few things could. Everyone I know who went this year was pissed that he was invited back, so him letting out his ego wouldn't help matters. Kim taking the spotlight by looking like a dumbass will keep the press from remembering the last time he pissed off the 'Roo, even if he doesn't realize it.

I know, but since I intend to watch her closely to gauge behavior, it would be my luck for her to get sick or something and not go.

Looking at the updated photo of the group, I'm struck at how much skinnier Katie looks. Obviously there was some photoshopping done, but I wonder if the graphics guy did that on purpose as snarky commentary on how skeletal she is? Cause the photoshop job looks BAD. I really hope she's been eating more protein as part of all that supposed training she's been doing since the finale.

Not to worry, if she makes any questionable comments at Comic Con next month, it will end up on YouTube and there isn't anything she can do. TV and movie panels almost always end up there and Arrow is no exception. Plus, I intend to be at that panel again and I'll be paying attention to vocal inflections and face/body language to report back on. Now watch her not be there this year.

Plus, the first time Sami was raped and her rapist got away with it, she shot him in the groin. Why she now has to be in love with him and bear his children is beyond me. EJ should have gone the way of Sami when she was obsessed with, and raped, Austin: mistakingly believe that they share a child who turns out to be Lucas' and ultimately fails to convince her that she returns his obsession.

Anna Kendrick was nominated for a Tony for the musical High Society, so she does have actual musical credentials beyond Pitch Perfect. With the others it just depends on the finished product. They all might end up sounding great and be the right choices.

While I can't say that everyone who didn't vote for Brokeback did so due to homophobia, many members did say that they refused to watch the movie and therefore refused to vote for it because of the subject. Some spoke on the condition of anonymity while others didn't but there is proof of homophobia affecting some of the votes that year. If they'd said they didn't vote for it and backed it up with real criticisms, or if Crash was the biggest financial and critical hit of the year, that would be one thing but those who voiced their homophobia were proud of that stance and that's where the controversy comes from.

Julie Plec seems to think that this show is the second coming of Buffy, so I think comparisons are fair game, including the love lives of the characters being more important than the ones between friends and family. Buffy chose Willow's life over stopping the Mayor in season 3, gave her life to save the world and her sister in season 5, and also chose saving the world over Angel in season 2, so I agree completely. And this is the same girl who was so despondent about doing the latter that she ran away from home. This show has successfully established that everyone not named Tyler will fall all over themselves to save Elena and the Salvatores (to make her happy) first and foremost, but I doubt they'd also fall all over themselves to save the world too. Buffy found a way to save the world so many times the word Apocalypse needed to be made plural and she managed to do it while keeping her loved ones safe as well. Tyler is the only character I can believe would try to save his loved ones and the world if it came to it, while everyone else would just save the loved ones and then wonder why the world is ending. I don't necessarily mind this selfishness in the characters, but I wish there was some indication that they knew that there was a world outside of Mystic Falls. If characters are going to be so self involved that the viewer cannot guarantee they even noticed the people they pass on the sidewalk, then that needs acknowledgement and consequences. There should have been major fallout from Kol's murder yet no one has come seeking revenge on the baby vampire and her human brother who did the deed. That would have made for a far more interesting story for the second half of the fifth season instead of Damon the Whitmore Killer and Enzo the Never Before Named BFF.

I agree that Mark leaving Sofia after wanting to raise a kid wouldn't make much sense, but it makes far more sense than him dying in that plane crash, so I could have lived with that happening and Callie referencing him skyping with Sofia on a regular basis. I don't think Jo knows about Alex's history with Izzie, so that could be interesting. At the very least, it would give her insight as to why he's eager to remarry: he wants to get it right this time (not unlike the insight Izzie gained during the Rebecca period when she learned about his mother). Her learning about Izzie and their relationship could make for some really interesting scenes between them, and give Alex much needed screentime, so it won't happen. At best, she'd learn he was once married and get angry that she didn't know and we'd have a silly "obstacle" for them to deal with.

In the villains thread there was a wish that the show bring on a legit villain without magic who also cannot be defeated by magic. That would actually be an excellent benefit to our world not being friendly for magic users like Rumpel and Regina. It could easily be done, too, as Storybrooke's boundaries could fall and the magic within the town gets diluted as a result. This would leave our two Biggest Bads without their crutch and therefore vulnerable to retribution or straight up attack from anyone. Neither would learn from a magic-less experience, but it would be nice to see them forced to rely on Emma (who I think would maintain her magic since we know she has it outside the town) and their wits instead of a mere handwave. If they were to learn from the experience, all the better.

I'm just hoping that next season brings Rumpel back to the forefront as the show's Biggest Bad. I expect Regina to be pulling crap and expecting everyone to feel sorry for her, but Rumpel's villainy is far more subtle and dangerous than hers will ever be and I want someone to realize this.

I can't believe there wasn't any fallout from that. Cristina wasn't allowed to do the first solo surgery but that was punishment for knowing that the interns were practicing medicine on themselves, not for being a shitty teacher. They all should have been punished for not teaching anything. The interns were rightly banned from the OR, but the Chief should have sat down with them and figured out exactly how much they knew from their residents and how much they knew from their attempts at being self taught. From there he should have come up with some way of monitoring the residents to make sure they were doing their jobs, though it would have been hilarious if every intern except Lexie (due to that photographic memory) failed their exams and had to repeat the year like George. That would have been a serious wake up call for the hospital. Also, I think the appropriate punishment would have been for the first solo surgery to be pushed back as far as possible. I assume that it's awarded when it is due to where they are in their training so that the hospital can free up more hands for basic procedures, so it probably couldn't be pushed back a full year, but going as long as possible, with the caveat that it still won't be Cristina (as additional punishment for keeping her mouth shut), would be fine. And I really hate Izzie's exit story. If they wanted to kill the character, fine, as they established how advanced her cancer was as well as the odds but, if they wanted her to live, they could have her decide she wanted to be closer to her mother and moved to a hospital that would allow her to do that. There was no reason to build up her relationship with Alex, get them married, and her to leave him with her massive medical bills months later. The show did a very good job of establishing that Alex never quite got over Izzie, but he was willing to move on as they also did a good job of establishing that she'd never love him as much as he loved her, so why even go back there? It also drove me crazy that we never really saw Izzie show an interest for a specialty. George showed an interest in both cardio (under Burke) and trauma (under Owen), Cristina was the cardio woman, Alex went from plastics to pediatrics, and Meredith went from neuro to general, but Izzie barely saw the inside of an OR. Addison said that Izzie was one of the best potential neo-natal surgeons with the quints, but Izzie seemed to lose interest after the one died. The Denny stupidity made her seem interested in cardio but she, again, seemed to lose interest after he died. The only place Izzie seemed to have any interest in was the clinic, so I'm wondering if we should even assume she's still a surgeon and not raising funds to open free clinics in areas of need. It'd be nice to learn something about Izzie and how she's doing. Maybe Pompeo takes an episode off and we learn that Meredith was out of town to attend Izzie's wedding (to someone with zero connection to medicine or a hospital), or Jo finds a picture from when Izzie and Alex got married, asks about her, and Alex gives us the update while revealing they keep in touch a couple of times a year. I also hated the exit stories for George, Lexie, and Mark. It really comes across as Shonda punishing the viewers because the actors decide to move on. George was already set to leave a be a trauma surgeon in the military so there was no need to kill him. It would be great to get the occasional update on George kicking ass in that specialty and it would allow the character to come back. Since the actors left at the same time, Lexie and Mark could have just moved to New York together. It wouldn't have been hard to set up as Mark had established himself there for years, so the show could just give him a super amazing job offer that Seattle can't match, he asks Lexie to come with him, she agrees, they move and she finishes her residency in New York. Then we could get periodic updates from Callie, Meredith, and Derek instead of that stupid plane crash. There was no need for these characters to die other than pissing off viewers. It's amazing Cristina's still alive.

I think that's a fair argument but, by that extension, couldn't we say that describing Dean as a stalker and Luke as violent and potentially abusive, no matter how much evidence we have to support those claims, also minimizes the experiences of real life victims? If we can't describe what we see on our screens as _____, with the evidence to back it up, then there's no point in getting invested in the characters and stories at all, and sites like this one become obsolete. And I stand by my assessment that Christopher neglected Rory. He didn't abuse her, he didn't think poorly of her, and he didn't have a problem being around her when they were in the same place, but he was absent physically and emotionally and that's neglect. One of the first things we learned about him was that he never visited Stars Hollow until that episode in season 1. Not damning on its own until we consider that there was no indication that Rory ever visited him in California. All we had was that she saw him on a rare visit to Connecticut and that she spoke to him occasionally on the phone. That's physical absence. There's also the fact that no one gave voice to asking him for financial help with Chilton, when we know they all believed he was a success in business. It was a big surprise during his season 1 visit when he couldn't afford to buy Rory that dictionary. If his financial troubles were something that Lorelai was privy to, I could easily understand her not asking him, but the pilot showed her also being convinced that he was doing very well. A simple line indicating that he was successful, but without liquid assets would have done an excellent job of establishing that he was involved in important decisions/events even while offscreen. The fact that he asked Rory to lie to Lorelai about his money troubles is appalling (undermining their relationship) and I'm glad she went off on him for it. I'm also glad that the show made it clear how Christopher viewed family in season 1: people living together. I get that view, as his own parents were emotionally neglectful and generally shitty, but it also informs his approach to parenting Rory offscreen. Lorelai saying that being a family takes commitment, responsibility, and coming home every night tells me that Christopher never acted like this prior to the show. That same episode she made the comment about leaving the door open to him and he admits that he makes the choice to not take advantage of that. These examples were all in season 1, so there was plenty of opportunity for the character to grow and his relationship with Rory to strengthen and I think season 2 looked to be heading in that direction with the coming out ceremony, his moving to the much closer Boston, Christopher and Sherry requesting Rory visit them, and him driving to check on Rory in person after Lorelai's overreaction to the accident. Even his pre-pregnancy assessment that he had broken up with Sherry and wanted to finally commit to Lorelai and Rory was a good sign. All of that was undone when Sherry told him she was pregnant and he couldn't be bothered to tell Rory himself. She wasn't going into labor right then and there was no indication that she was experiencing pregnancy related medical problems yet he couldn't wait thirty minutes (or, however long the ceremony was) to pull Rory aside and explain the situation. He tried to reach Rory that summer, so I'll give him that much credit, but he didn't seem to understand why she was upset with him and, frankly, seemed way more focused on keeping Lorelai in his life than Rory. That would end up being the standard behavior of Christopher: he shows up to pant around Lorelai and pay no attention to Rory. And actor availability shouldn't ever have affected his relationship with Rory if the show truly wanted us to believe that they had one at all, much less a decent one. Lines indicating that Chris and Sherry were sitting elsewhere at the graduation ceremony, that he attended Parents Weekend every year while Rory was at Yale, that he started taking her out to dinner for her birthday every year after her sixteenth, that they talked on the phone often enough that he knew which classes were her favorite and why, that he followed her work with the paper like Emily and Richard (and them being the better parents in this case grosses me out), that they sent each other postcards when they traveled, that she went up to visit him once in a while, and so on. Availability shouldn't have precluded any of this from happening, yet we were explicitly told that Christopher wasn't at the graduation (not even mentioning him could allow us to fanwank that he was present but offscreen) and he was barely mentioned in season 4 (and I'm convinced he and Lorelai would have made a go that season if he'd been available as Digger was basically Christopher without the shitty parent baggage-which is why I wouldn't have had an issue with him if he hadn't been Rory's father since I didn't have an issue with Digger). Starting with season 5, the show was even more explicit that everything Christopher did was centered around Lorelai with Rory as an afterthought. I actually fondly remember our disgust over on TWOP whenever we learned that he would show up. It was so predictable: Chris focuses on Lorelai, flirts with her, and there is nothing that indicates he and Rory have any kind of relationship unless she's standing right there. Chris comes into a fortune and Lorelai is the one to mention Rory and ask for financial assistance in paying for Yale. In season 7, when he visits Rory at Yale, he's all upset because of everything HE missed from being absent in her life. Neither he nor Lorelai show any concern at what RORY missed. Then there's that stupid France proposal where they were in such a hurry to "get married" that they didn't try and get Rory on a flight to be there and celebrate with them. I know she wasn't there because Lorelai knew she might be talked out of it (it wasn't legal anyway, so Lorelai could have walked away easily), but it would have been nice if Chris had mentioned getting Rory on a plane and Lorelai saying no, she wanted it done ASAP, demonstrating how in denial she was. So, yes, I stand by my assessment of Chris as a neglectful father. And I agree, by the way, that the way the show presented Dean often came across as him being Rory's stalker and that she often acted like she was afraid of him. I also agree that Luke's behavior once he and Lorelai were a couple was over the top and indicative of abuse potential. I believe that the former was done to make it clear that Jess was the next love interest for Rory and that the latter was done because ASP has no idea how to write relationships well and neither character needed to be taken to those extremes. Even on the short-lived Bunheads, the basic premise was that Sutton Foster got drunk and married her stalker (and her character describes him as such), and no one ever seemed concerned for her safety. Rory losing interest in Dean and falling for Jess happens to high school kids all the time. One day, they're convinced they're in the middle of True Love That No One Could Possibly Understand or Relate To and the next, they've dumped said True Love for another pretty face. There's no reason the same couldn't have happened with Rory and Dean. Luke being insecure about Lorelai's feelings is believable, but freaking out over a voicemail that she had no control over should have lost him the relationship and earned a suggestion for therapy. That actually would have made for a more interesting story for Luke, but I got the impression (with Rory's and Lorelai's "therapy sessions") that ASP doesn't think well of psychology, so it probably wouldn't have worked out well.

I'm bringing a UO from TWOP over here in light of the Christopher love: if the show genuinely wanted Christopher to be a love interest for Lorelai, no matter how temporary, they should never have made him Rory's father. If they'd made him a life long friend of Lorelai's, who never acted on a crush until they were adults, then I would never have had an issue with him. I can handle that scenario, but I cannot ever root for any character to get involved with someone who was shown onscreen to be negligent to his/her child, especially if the protagonist is such a devoted parent themselves. Also, since the show never had any interest in exploring how Christopher's neglect affected Rory, there really wasn't any need for him to be her father and all of the stories involving him could have played out the same. His parents could still have disapproved of Lorelai getting pregnant, Emily and Richard could still have placed him on a pedestal (and them overlooking his neglect of their beloved granddaughter is no longer an issue), he still could have moved to California at a young age before moving back, he still could have chosen is pregnant girlfriend over being with Lorelai, they still could have done the ill-advised (and not legal) wedding in Paris, and so on. Rory's father could have been like Lane's: an unnamed and unseen ex-boyfriend of Lorelai's who dumped her the second he learned of her pregnancy and never wanted anything to do with them after that. The effect on Rory still could have been avoided, like we saw on the show, and we wouldn't have been asked to swallow Lorelai not caring about Chris' neglect of Rory when she went off on anyone else who might cause her harm.

Case in point: Jessica Pare from Mad Men and her teeth, which seem to offend far more than what she does with the character of Megan.

College counselors in real life encourage applying to at least a few: the longshot (usually the dream school), the safety (one of the state schools), and the in-between (private or out-of state with standards that can be met), based on the student's current criteria. They do this so that options exist. Only when a student is dead set on a single school will a counselor back away from such encouragement and, at my school, that usually coincided with the application being for early admission. Applications do cost money, which is why no student will be encouraged to apply to a bunch, but applying to a few schools is doable. This isn't to say that real life students always apply to multiple, as plenty do, but that seems to happen far more often on tv than in real life, in my experience anyway.

I would add Wolf of Wall Street. Whatever anyone thought of the movie itself, Leo looked like he was having a blast with the character's over the top antics. In general, he seems to have more fun with Scorsese than any other director save Tarantino, and I very much want to see them work together again.

I'm a big fan of vampire folklore. I mainly focus on Slavic stories, and they're legit scary, but the vampires from Asia are the stuff nightmares are made of and it is so. much. fun. Werewolf folklore is fun, too, and the Slavs do it justice, but I haven't come across as much in comparison.