Marcian Tobay

That's what I took from this. I think it's important to keep in mind that this is a show about pathetic people who know, deep down inside, that getting (any) place in the regional high school sing-off will probably be the most important thing they do in their entire lives. They're pettty, petty people.

"Sad little king of a sad little hill..." ~River Tam

To that end, I agree that Breadsticks was a big deal because, from what I gather, it's the only restaurant in this alternate universe Lima, Ohio that even makes a vague and lazy gesture towards class. I imagine that the brochures sent out for its opening event advertised proudly that it has "Matching, real china dishes", which many of the citizens mistook for meaning "From China".

That's just me, though.

I agree. Kurt's in an odd place, and his behavior is understandable. It may not be perfect role-model correct, but it's understandable. In my opinion, the greatest favor they've done to the queer community with this character is make him nuanced, consistent, and such that you can either agree or disagree with his actions but see the arguments for both.

In the first season, they darn near martyr'd Kurt half the time. Calling him out for his "I know best" attitude while keeping him sympathetic makes the character far more admirable to me.

Anyway, awesome episode. One of my favorites. If there are The 3 Glees, Ian Brennan's are rapidly becoming my favorite so much that they are actively anticipated over the others.

Okay: An aged relic must get over the sadness of their past or fall behind when they are suddenly thrown into the world of the present day.

• Wall-E
• Toy Story
• Up
• Finding Nemo
• The Incredibles
• Ratatouille (my weakest example, so I put it last. No regrets on the others)

Edit: That's all Pixar's done in any of its great films: Taken a character from a past time and thrown them into a future that forgot all about them. Again and again. The one that subverted the formula was Cars, when someone from a present-gone-wrong had to meet with a superior past. It also got a poor score by Pixar standards.

I love Pixar and think that everything they make is better than Dreamworks, but I hate it when one-joke internet posts begin shaping peoples' thinking.

$20 for one month of full, unlimited access to their tools. An amazing price for marketing research. I, however, am not a marketing firm.

Just firm.

Seriously, go ahead and feel these pecs. They're quite the situation.

1) Megamind's already made that face a couple'a times.

2) Pixar's also the same story over and over again, but it's such a good story that no one's noticed. <3

Showtunes are America's past time.

I also get anxious when I get those brief glimpses at how wide spread and coordinated commercial products are. Usually invokes paranoia and this brief reminder that all anyone wants is money, ya know?

Good thing this Coca-Cola is calming me down.

Funny story: While I was in the shower this morning, I was thinking about this conversation and this exact point hit me.

Not my best point.

I just really want to have been there when the professor explained to his assistants that they were now going to be punched repeatedly by something that is physically incapable of understanding what a power house it is.

Yeah, I'm really not sure how it factors into the test. I think it's something like Robot punches, they rate that punch a 4. They rate the next one a 7. The rating system goes all the way up to 11. Once the robot "understands" the difference, people are free to tell it what an acceptable amount of pain it can inflict on its coworkers for a task.

That would actually make it easy for a robot to assist in surgeries and understand when it hurt someone past what is necessary for the operation.

Short version: Part of an ongoing research project to figure out how to explain "pain" to robots involves encouraging robots to inflict pain. The above image is of a robot programmed to punch people harder and harder until the test makers (test subjects?) say the word "Mercy". Then it will stop.

I don't have anything to add but to acknowledge that this exists.

And it was one of my favorites.

Does it need its own thread? No one seems to care that I didn't make one.

It's not even that good of an album... >.>

It's worth the $10, but it's nothing phenomenal.

Obviously they would need to address it. The way they are addressing it seems inadequate.

And still accurate!

Not all of them. You have a point, but you mistook a generalization for a fact.

Take, for example, the unnamed villain of the movie Serenity. He explicitly and literally states that he is aware that he is a monster. He states that there is "no room for him" in the world he is helping to create. In other words, he fully expects to be rejected by society. (Did anyone else interpret that speech to be his stating that he plans to be killed at the end of his mission?)

Additionally, Batman hates hates hates the idea of anyone accepting him. As outlined in "The Dark Knight", it leads to dangerous ideas like other people being held accountable for his actions or imitators putting themselves in harm's way.

Not every Super has dreams of changing society and how it works. If the world's a computer, some want to upgrade to 7, some want to go to Mac, and some want to simply do a Spyware check and keep it as is.

With the 100 people I got to answer, some backed up your thesis. Others backed up my examples. I think that samples of each existed in my survey, and saying "All would do X" is a discredit.

Rent being my favorite musical, this has struck me, too. Thing is, the songs that are the greatest in Rent are the ones that are the most offensive (La Vie Boheme, namely). They may need to be careful. Then again, "Take Me or Leave Me" would work with a couple of the couples.

As for "Seasons of Love", well that is to Broadway as Bohemian Rhapsody is to rock. As such, I imagine that they're saving it for a special occasion.