I do my best to scroll past all walking dead articles because I’m a season behind. But when you put major spoilers about a person leaving the show right there in the headline, it’s impossible to avoid. Can you please rethink how you write your headlines for people like me who don’t have time to catch up on every show?…

This was probably the moment I realised I was watching something a bit special.

Pournelle’s great stroke of luck was to hook up with Niven, but for Niven, not so much. They produced one good work together, The Mote in God’s Eye (1974), but even that was stained by Pournelle’s politics. Even when I read the book as a kid I was taken aback by the opening, where the first thing we see the “hero” do…

I’m not sure that training a dragon to accept a rider is that difficult a thing. The first time Drogon did it was in the fighting pits of Mereen and he’d never been trained before. Maybe it’s like dogs and playing fetch: 90% of the time they just know how to play instinctively.*

Musk may have made his initial public comments because the Dailymail was running a story that their relationship ending due to her poor character: “he’d heard certain things about her behavior that didn’t sit well with him. Amber can be very manipulative and selfish.” A lot of people inexplicably hate Amber Heard, and…

Yes, I’m referring to the show’s history as the source material, and in the entire run of the franchise the character has always been male. For some people gender can be a defining characteristic of a fictional character, doesn’t mean they’re against female leads or that they’re misogynistic.

The same point could be…

Nova Corps also called Quill “Space-Lord” in his rap sheet, so it could be an in-universe goof.

Going faster to Mars reduces the problem a lot. Which is why SpaceX is planning on 80-120 day trips.

The Doctor did just a short while earlier convince the local heads of the militaries to promise not to fight each other even if ordered to by their superiors. Having primed them to ignore their own presidents, they simply went one step further than the Doctor intended and they ignored him as yet another president. …

That’s the problem with most superhero shows on tv nowadays. 22 episodes they need to write, but the writers also want the focus to be on a specific villain. Prometheus, Savitar, Reverse Flash. The only way for them to drag the show along for a full season with a single villain is for the heroes to lose time and time…

I agree. I wouldn’t be surprised if all of them (including Merlyn) survived. The cut away from the guy trapped on the land mine explosion basically guarantees he somehow escaped.. I was expecting him to show up during the Thea is sad about her evil dead Dad scene after seeing that she really did care.

Individually, the scenes are excellent, and there’s always a lot going on, but without a clear goal or main villain, the film seems to be missing a sense of purpose. Everything in the center of the movie feels like its meandering, like they’re all waiting for something to bring them all back together.

Once again, I respectfully disagree about the Grimes Gang’s murky morality, and I especially refute the awfulness of the attack on the Savior’s satellite station. Reasons below.

Thank you for that wonderful reply. I still think on my personal balance that Pappagallo is perhaps the worse of the two, but you make excellent points, particularly about the “relationship between the rules of our civilizations and brutality that seems external, but just might be intertwined with them”. Well said!

Overall a good list, but there is one point where I’d say you definitely picked the wrong terrible person: Lord Humongous. He’s not the worst person in the Mad Max universe (That’s clearly warlord, cult figure, and serial rapist Immortan Joe). What most people miss is that Lord Humongous isn’t even the worst person in…

Honestly, I think we have a studio to blame for Donnie Darko being good. Southland Tales was Richard Kelly without a leash. It has the smell of hot garbage, but the texture of frozen trash.

Negan may end up a la “Hannibal Lecter,” as an adviser of sorts to Rick & crew, but one who will turn on you when you ain’t looking and least expect it.

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.

She’s fucking dreadful.

I thought the characters have ended up exactly where they were supposed to and it was the great ending of their arcs this season.