Seems like someone ought to be in business dropping all kinds of car bodies onto the Tesla “skateboard” architecture. I keep thinking of the cool EVs in Gattica — electric Avanti, anyone?

Has everyone lost their goddamned minds? Hillary is insane and she’s going to take us all down AGAIN in 2020 with her gaslighting bullshit.

Thanks — this is why I tease my wife that she’s making things up. I think she’s just a good natural story teller who’s had an interesting life, but every story’s so casually outrageous. I think all her stories should all be novels, but we’re going to have to put them in the fiction section.

The Lyrical Lycan

“Vape companies” are barred by federal law from making health or smoking cessation claims, and they don’t. Every bottle of legally sold e-juice has a warning that nicotine is an addictive chemical, and states the level of nicotine in it. “Kind of like a cigarette, but without the smell” is exactly how vaping products…

Wrong on all counts. E-liquids are regulated by the FDA, requiring disclosure of the contents, safe manufacture, etc. “Flavors” do not constitute marketing to children, and besides Juul and Blu, the makers are not tobacco companies.

Everyone enter, win the gun; film yourself shooting Nike shoes and those lib coffee machines with it.

No in the world seriously thinks Assange is a “known Russian intelligence operative,” so whatever else you’re trying to say, it’s clear you’re too full of authoritarian Kool-Aid to think clearly.

Good illustration of what’s wrong with everything. If you’re powerful and you do something dishonest or illegal that hurts people, it’s okay, because you meant well or didn’t think it through.

An “MD” (who knows, but that’s the theme of the account) on Twitter recently posted that these symptoms are consistent with people aspirating *oil*. That’s not a normal ingredient in e-liquid, but it does create the rare kind of pneumonia seen in these cases, and, if you were an idiot, you might think of using baby or…

I hope if there’s a Season 4 the creators bring in some writing and directing talent to put a little more meat on the decent bones they’ve got here.

I hope if there’s a Season 4 the creators bring in some writing and directing talent to put a little more meat on the decent bones they’ve got here.

I hope if there’s a Season 4 the creators bring in some writing and directing talent to put a little more meat on the decent bones they’ve got here.

Not pretending anything. I have an opinion; you have an opinion. Discussing television shows is an opportunity to gather different points of view, not a reason to take offense because someone doesn’t love every square inch of something you think is a flawless masterpiece.

Again, you can view every cliche and badly written scene as a tribute to nostalgia if you want, but that’s not really a thing. Things that don’t work don’t become good as “homage.” 

I’m fine with Hop being a mess, but his screwups feel unforced and random. He treats people badly. His treatment of Joyce this season; his fights with 11 last season — his personal conflicts come out of nowhere and go too far. It’s jarring. 

You could point to parts of the style of the show (like killer Russians) as a nod to a sort of period piece nostalgia. That doesn’t cover choices like a shallow, repetitive plot line or wild swings in tone like Hop being a teddy bear one minute and a vicious bully the next.

Hop’s character is all over the place. One minute he’s the tender, Eggo-dispensing guardian of 11, the next he’s got Cary Elwes’ finger in a cigar-cutter to get information about a plot he doesn’t even grasp yet, or he’s bullying tiny little Mike over some obviously innocent snogging.

Good genre fiction still requires good characters and good storytelling, if anything more so than in a story with a naturalistic setting.

I don’t think an homage to the 80’s excuses overly tropey story lines or weird shifts in tone. TWO infiltrations of a military base by separate child & adult-sized air vent tunnels might qualify as parody, but it doesn’t make it good.