I hope the model won't move towards Kickstarter-funded cable programs (which Trey pointed out the flaws of) but towards something like HBO. You pick the channels that produce shows you like and pay for them rather than paying for all of cable. People who subscribe to HBO for the hits - Game of Thrones, True Blood - also prop up the lower rated shows. Which would mean that the artful shows that nobody watched - like Firefly - could exist along with the big hits.

Very sad. Hope his family can get through this.

Hunger Games would bring up really interesting Plinkett test and storytelling discussions.

Now that I'm reading these reactions, I'm thinking I don't have to run out and see it before I leave for DC. Do any of you think I shouldn't wait a week and should catch it now?

To be fair, the movie itself didn't really know where it wanted to be on this issue, so you can pretty much form an opinion without really seeing it.

I feel like the film could have improved if they did comment on the fact that the only real conflict is between beauty and not, you know, ability to rule a country. They were so close when they had the queen say that she and Snow White were exactly the same, and then they just knocked the idea off the table.