Esther Inglis-Arkell's discussions

To be fair, we had people stationed at all the paths leading in to that section of the park. I'm sure if we ever blow up a truck, we'll go all the way out to the dead end street a few blocks away. Read more

I thought all the way back to Seaquest. Read more

It seems we're stirring up a lot of traumatic memories with this topic. Read more

I was concerned when I saw the outer coating of powder. Sugar? Corn starch? Cocaine? Read more

I only put these up because I assume by now most io9 readers have a court order stopping them from ordering chemical supplies. Read more

I love that moment. Donald Glover's "skipping through a meadow in springtime" posture really makes it for me. Read more

I didn't google it, but I sure as hell clicked on it. Read more

They could have used the Leidenfrost Effect for that, but it also could have been a different phenomenon. I'm going to have check that one out! Read more

I think it's probably not a stereotype limited to WASPs either way, and more about income and the sense of a "dynasty" that the children need to carry on, rather than a ladder that each generation will hopefully climb. Read more

Well played. Read more

My question is, why can't Dig take out the bank robbers? He clearly wanted to. Why cut in on Ollie's family occasions to let him know about something that he didn't want to do, and that Dig did want to do? Read more

I don't know about the Canadian aspect of the show. I think it's more the practices of the very, very rich WASP. Read more

I agree that this show has a definite class angle, but come on, the old Oliver Queen most definitely fought street crime, and looked down on people who didn't. Even in the Grell run, when he kept going around the world, he went after motorcycle gangs, pimps, and re-offending ex-cons. Later, in the Smith and Winick… Read more

Thank you! Read more

Maybe he was just chilly. Read more

Oh, that's a good one! Read more

Whoever it was had me terrified of moving someone even mildly injured for the rest of my life. Read more

I missed that one! Read more

Remember that story The Crowd? I think it was by Stephen King. It was about a mysterious group of ghosts who had all died in car wrecks and determined whether further car wreck victims would live or die by either letting EMTs get to them or "helping them out" by moving them and worsening their injuries. Read more

Hurray! Teen novel reading buddies! Read more