Activity from painquale

What a great film! I'm pleased that they found a logline/elevator pitch for this movie that will attract people to see it, even though it's not what the movie is about at all. The movie reminded me of nothing more than Being John Malkovich. They… [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by QDeesp, wesleyac
FanFare comment - 2 months ago

This episode was so delightful! The Superstarvillains from the amalgam of the Legion of Doom + Warhol's Factory is one of the best things this show has ever done. I've been trying to figure out the fusions. Here's what I've come up with: Wes… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by riotnrrd
FanFare comment - 2 months ago

Something very disappointing is that they had previously in the season set up Think Tank to be the one to come in and save Hank and Action Man... but they weren't able to book Jeffrey Wright! Which is why they had to awkwardly patch in Phineas Phage… [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by Pope Guilty
FanFare comment - 2 months ago

It's so very clear that these first three episodes are a chopped-up version of the script to an hour-long finale that Hammer and Publick couldn't find the time or money to make last season. [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by DoctorFedora
FanFare comment - 2 months ago

I like the theory that Blue Morpho was the "great man" Kano killed. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by DoctorFedora
FanFare comment - 2 months ago

This was supposed to be the finale, but they apparently had to swap the last two episodes for some boring continuity reason. Don't get your hopes up about the next episode resolving anything! We gotta wait another three years for that. Loved all… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by DoctorFedora
FanFare comment - 2 months ago

What a triumph of writing this episode was! At least 10 major characters were given things to do, and half of them were given major plot developments. Another 10 minor characters were given good jokes. Three new major characters were introduced… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by DoctorFedora
FanFare comment - 2 months ago

Apparently, the Investors are named after three of the four Greek minor wind deities, or Tempest Winds: Kaikias, Skeiron, and Lips. This would make Dr. Killinger Apeliotes, the southeast wind. [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by DoctorFedora
FanFare comment - 3 months ago

I say I'm a grad student studying philosophy. I get three questions all the time: (1) "So, what's your philosophy?" (ugh) (2) "What are you going to do then, teach?" Answer: "I'm more interested in the research,… [more]
favorited 18 times, recently by primavera_f
Ask MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Also, in my understanding of "outrage-filter" it means, "here's something awful in the world, that you can't do anything but be angry about." I kinda wish the mods would not use Mefi insiderspeak like… [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by rosiroo
MetaTalk comment - 5 months ago

I thought the scene with Han and Kylo Ren on the bridge was fantastic. One of the best moments in any of the movies. But I didn't realize until afterward that I had a very different read on the scene than a lot of other people. We previously saw… [more]
favorited 90 times, recently by Space Kitty
FanFare comment - 7 months ago

Comments open; continually revised
favorited 2 times, recently by Saxon Kane
MeFi post - 8 months ago

I thought, before following the link: I bet they forgot I Wanna Be the Guy. And yes, they did! Looking at the list more closely, this is a really arbitrary collection of game levels. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Yowser, hollowaytape, persona, May Kasahara
MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Not entirely what you want, and perhaps too academic, but you might look at Louis Sass's Madness and Modernism. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by grumblebee
Ask MeFi comment - Last year

I love this episode! Not so much for the episode itself (which is fine), but for what it begins to establish about the Klingons. I am sure this is debatable, but I think it completely upends how we should think about their history. There's… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by acrasis
FanFare comment - Last year

Archie dates waaaay back to the 40's. The comics have always been a bizarre mishmash of different time periods, and they've been very resistant to modernization. I think this is because older stories were published alongside newer stories in… [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by duende
FanFare comment - Last year

I've caught up to the Fanfare discussions! Sometime shortly before Disco came out, I decided that I should first watch the Star Trek series I was unfamiliar with. I made my way through DS9, following along with the old Fanfare threads the whole… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by ActingTheGoat, fleacircus
FanFare comment - Last year

I use the trains in Switzerland as an alternate office when I feel the need to get away from my stationary office. I get a little table, a window with constantly-changing gorgeous scenery composed of mountains and lakes, a coffee cart that comes by… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by Artifice_Eternity
MeFi comment - Last year

Psychiatrists have been conspiring against us for millennia.
favorited 23 times, recently by InkaLomax
MeFi post - Last year

This was so much fun. I'm really glad I got into the Greatest Generation a few years back. I'm sure I wouldn't have picked up on nearly as many in-jokes in this show if it weren't for them. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Navelgazer, Kitty Stardust, Mr.Encyclopedia
FanFare comment - Last year

It's funny that we don't get songs from Aimee Mann or Nikki Minaj and we hardly get any from Estelle, but we get a ton of songs from Tom Scharpling, of all people. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
FanFare comment - Two years ago

Yeah, I don't doubt that Rose was one of the four leaders, emjaybee. And and I agree her emblem was a little pink diamond shape. I just think we don't really have a reason to think that means the leaders are all diamond gems. They use a little… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by JHarris
FanFare comment - Two years ago

New intro. [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by Cremcraw
FanFare comment - Two years ago

What do you do when you can live as a good person only by living in bad faith? Is it right to be an inauthentic helper of the elderly, or a self-realized and authentic scam artist? It's nearly the exact same question that formed the basis of… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by Fish, fish, are you doing your duty?
FanFare comment - Two years ago

I adore that David Lynch exposed mainstream audiences to the sort of avant-garde film you normally only find in galleries. It seems to have been received really well. The zoom-in on the mushroom cloud reminded me an awful lot of Stan Brakhage, and… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by rorgy, a box and a stick and a string and a bear
FanFare comment - Two years ago

I haven't watched the whole season, but I want to register that the montage of Mac and Dennis being driven mad while living in the suburbs is an A+ madness montage. [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by Monochrome, DoctorFedora
FanFare comment - Two years ago

Carl Hiassen isn't as wordplay-oriented, but his books are hilarious, character driven, and tightly plotted in a way that reminds me of Pratchett (and the Coen brothers). I remember an interview in which Pterry himself recommends Hiassen as an… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by irisclara
Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

From the interview that CheesesOfBrazil linked, I thought this comment on the Pakleds was interesting: [F]or the finale one of the themes that we hadn’t hit on for the season yet that explicitly was metaphorically saying something about problems… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by Space Kitty, CheesesOfBrazil, corb, Syllepsis, artificialard, jedicus, Servo5678, chrchr, Halloween Jack, eckeric
FanFare comment - Two years ago

I'm sadly standing with the naysayers: this was a real bummer of a season for me. I think if I'd been played just the Jimmy and Kim scenes, it'd have real promise as the first half of a season. But that's it. I hope we'll be able to revisit this… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by rhamphorhynchus
FanFare comment - Two years ago

Oh and for the American cryptic crosswords, try to find cryptics by Fraser Simpson. He does the Saturday cryptic crossword for The Globe and Mail and a monthly for the Canadian magazine The Walrus (The Walrus's puzzle page is really quite good). I… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by lemonade
Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

Good ep. Earth having left the Federation is a surprising and interesting development. The Scooby Doo unmasking was corny, but in a welcome way. Doug Jones is running circles around the rest of the cast acting-wise, I think. The actors are let… [more]
favorited 14 times, recently by lazaruslong, cooker girl, Space Kitty, leotrotsky, artificialard, mstokes650, h00py, bowline, entity447b, DoctorFedora, Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, bartleby, Halloween Jack, jedicus
FanFare comment - Two years ago

I see people here worried about the credentials and motivations of the authors. It's worth noting that the articles seem to take most of their information from Stephen Guyenet's The Hungry Brain (that's how I became familiar with a lot of… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by congen, Tehhund, languagehat, Mr.Know-it-some, bacalao_y_betun, Nelson, PussKillian, chrchr, philip-random, Bella Donna
MeFi comment - Two years ago

A similar question was asked a few days ago. Here's my answer from that thread. We're physiologically set up to be bad at seeing blue things in high acuity. Our eyes have three types of cones (as opposed to rods) that are used for color… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Joe in Australia
Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

His account of his tryst with Miss Piggy is a truly hilarious piece of writing. I had come to London for six weeks to play the first real human romantic interest for the internationally celebrated Muppet sex symbol Miss Piggy in The Great… [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by Allie Katamari, rednikki, chavenet, azpenguin, Recliner of Rage, freecellwizard, lesbiassparrow, xil, The Underpants Monster, epj, EinAtlanta
MeFi comment - Two years ago

you can really tell where and what Martin cares about and doesn't. Of course the epic span of history is mostly flat and featureless but suddenly perks up right before the books start, because that's where he started caring about what was… [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by smithy
MeFi comment - Two years ago

I hadn't seen the first until a few nights ago and I loved it. This sequel is atrocious. The movies are as different as can be! It reminded me of the difference between Ghostbusters and the recent remake. There's a certain sensibility to studio… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by bleep, Melismata
FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I really liked the worldbuilding and I loved the last five minutes. That scene signaled good things in store. I really dug that cultist's vibe. I'm gonna love it if Burnham keeps enlisting a bunch of people who still believe in the Federation but… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by five toed sloth, Jon_Evil, Syllepsis, mstokes650
FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I completely agree with cairdeas. Before I knew anything about Patrice, I heard comics on Marc Maron's podcast praise him to the skies. It made me interested in him. And then I actually heard the interview that Marc did with him. It was dripping… [more]
favorited 14 times, recently by Recliner of Rage, bleep, tiny frying pan
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

They referred to this thread in the latest podcast! (But only to express frustration with the date rape comment.) [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by tilde
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

I was also confused about why there weren't enough Trill hosts for all the symbionts given that DS9 established that most any Trill could be a host. It's almost as if the writers of this episode didn't watch that one. Maybe: in DS9, Trill elites… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Strutter Cane - United Planets Stilt Patrol
FanFare comment - Over two years ago

Rick freaking out about the planet where everything is on a cob is maybe the best joke the show has done. [more]
favorited 17 times, recently by hototogisu
FanFare comment - Over two years ago

Rebecca Sugar styled the animation in this episode after Lotte Reiniger, a creator of early animated films. The aesthetic looks cool and it's a good way of illustrating the story without showing us too much of the Homeworld gems, but more… [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by ShooBoo
FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I also didn't like the repeated joke of Burnham sucker-punching Book in the face just because she was mad at him. It's the kind of casual violence that TV has completely normalized but Trek has always avoided. It's impossible to imagine Geordi or… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by shesdeadimalive, Syllepsis, mstokes650, antinomia
FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I was wondering during the episode whether they would address that Orion women secrete pheromones to make men do their bidding. It would be nice if they could subtly shelve or defuse that piece of canon with a joke. My little headcanon until they… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by CheesesOfBrazil
FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I'm surprised at how much less zany and slapsticky the show was than I expected! I think I assumed that huge aliens would use the ship saucer as a pizza cutter, or planets would get knocked into one another like pool balls, or something daft like… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by JHarris, some loser
FanFare comment - Over two years ago

This was the episode that sold me on the series when I first started watching it. The conclusion is extremely dumb, but the single Dalek wreaking havoc and the Doctor's fear is very powerful. This was also my introduction to Daleks, and I thought… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by MiraK
FanFare comment - Over two years ago

The lineup in this episode is unbelievable. These are most of my favorite performers, and having them appear one-by-one without knowing who was coming up was a real treat. It's almost like Aukerman asked me personally who I would put in an ideal… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Cremcraw
FanFare comment - Over two years ago

Another Tennantism: the way she jerks her head to a new orientation each sentence while keeping her eyes open wide and trained directly on whoever she's speaking to. For example, watch the part where Ryan identifies her tongue for her and she says… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by Syllepsis
FanFare comment - Over two years ago

The acting and the music really went up a peg, and the direction and cinematography are noticeably different. I'm pleased that things are being shaken up, because Moffat's version had gotten stale. But I hope that we still get a dose of Moffatian… [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by Syllepsis
FanFare comment - Over two years ago

What a gorgeous format. It kept going on and on. The page is subtitled "Close Read"... has the NYTimes done others of these? [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by allthinky
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

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