How about an article about the Trump administration assault on Internet neutrality? Would that be non-tech enough for you?

A lot of people have to die. Most of the people remaining are directly competing for the Iron Throne or have some importance with respect to the wars to come. Weapons training, or the lack of training, is not that big a deal when treachery has always been the leading cause of death.

I have not seen the show, so I cannot fully comment, but I’ve heard people (especially some white critics) complain about the absence of race, when what they seem to mean is that they want to see black people mistreated the way that they are “typically”or historically mistreated. Ultimately, these people have a very…

I haven’t had time to check out “The Handmaid’s Tale.” This excellent post definitely makes me want to put it on my watch list.

People see what they want to see. The Klngons in the original show were for some analogs of communist Russia; the Romulans analogs for the communist Chinese. Cold War metaphors could easily be seen in the conflicts between the Romulans, Klingons and the Federation (a US dominated UN in space) Later fans saw Klingons…

RE: Also, I really hope Discovery is good. Because otherwise, these racist assholes will point to the “SJWness” of the cast and say, “See? Being an SJW doesn’t work!

Funny how these racist numbskulls want Start Trek to meekly go where it’s never gone before. As noted, they either never really watched the show, or weren’t paying attention.

It is very easy to see Godzilla (Gojira) as a metaphor for the atomic bomb that was dropped on Japanese cities, intensified by the history of storms, earthquakes and disasters that has hit Japan over centuries. There is, for example, a famous ink drawing from 1847 of a Mongol fleet attacking Japan that was destroyed…

I really like Laura Dern as an actress, but I think I’ve only seen her in contemporary and realistic works. It will be cool to see her in an intergalactic fantasy.

There has to be a resolution. And some of the characters that we love and want to survive have to lose and die. It’s like a game of chess. In the late game, the powerful pieces that are left on the board must also fall.

In the past, some of the writing here has been excellent. Even when popularized, it did not always veer into the glib or the frankly stupid, and the writers often did the right thing by providing links to source publications (as opposed to other news reporting).

I obviously haven’t read ahead, and haven’t looked ahead at any speculative set spoilers, but it is clear that some extremely brutal stuff is going to have to happen to neutralize Daenerys’ advantage. She has superior counsel from her Lannister Hand of the Queen, and she’s got dragons. 

I barely got past the insipid “they’ve got spiky genitals meant to hurt females while boning” nonsense. It’s cool to try to make science more interesting by making it informal, but idiotic and reductive statements about biological processes that imagine sexist attention (male or female oriented) make this kind of…

Much more impressed with The Doctor meeting the Pope in “Extremis.”

It looks like “Mummy: Impossible”

It looks pretty good. For some, however, “Guardians of the Galaxy” and numerous lesser films may have stolen some of the thunder from “Valerian.”

I like the characters in “Game of Thrones.” I am curious about their fates. I want to know what will happen next, and this may include fights or sex or mere survival. The narrative is compelling.

RE: Put all of this together, the good and the bad, and you have the fifth PotC movie.

I thought it was fun, and a great counter to the excessive burden that some supposed fans and critics are heaping on the movie. And I thank Hera that the women didn’t say that all their mothers were named Martha.

I really enjoyed Roger Moore’s Bond and thought that perhaps his best performance was his first in “Live and Let Die.” But I think that he absolutely nailed the role of Simon Templar in “The Saint” tv series, and this also confirmed for me that he was a good actor as well. One of the local stations ran complete…