and so anyway it turns out that the best thing about multi-Oscar-winning Whiplash (2014) is not that – thanks mainly to the music, the editing and Supergirl’s chin, which once you have seen you will never unsee – it manages to combine being quite enjoyable with being a big pile of totally reprehensible tosh, nor that it got Babylon 5‘s Garibaldi back in shape and won him an Oscar, but that it showed me exactly where I have been going wrong pedagogically for the last 22 years, putting all that effort into not being a complete and utter dick, and made me look forward to turning over a new, abusive leaf when I get back to classes in the new year…