It’s true! I used to go New York Liberty games, and the first thing that struck me was how much more interesting the game was from a technical standpoint. You could actually see the plays develop. You kind of got an idea what each player is supposed to be doing on offense, especially without the ball. Fascinating.

Another daily reminder that even the most average of average men can be more successful than the most hardworking women by default due to sexism.

despite my issues with Scientology and the man personally, i think ‘Magnolia’ should’ve really dismissed the idea that he plays one role

As a massive fan of the books (I’ve read the entire series over a dozen times at this point in my life) I simply do not see any way that they can work anything even slightly like the second foundation from the books into the show at this point. Literally the entire driving force behind third book, and a major player…

Unreliable narrators! Implanted memories! Weaponized science! Comedy, like yelling at a guy until he dies! Deep dive slow burn personal history of a robot! You basically don't need to watch any of it to get any of it!

This comment says a lot more about you than it does about Goyer. Yikes. Leave the basement. Go outside. Get some perspective.

I liked Dune. All of ‘em. Even Sci-Fi channel Dune.

I’m saying “really” to the headline because Mother is one of those films that likes to pretend it has some sort of deep meaning when really it’s pretty transparent.  

Really? Because the whole thing that makes “Mother” so obnoxious is how boilerplate the allegory in it is. I’d rather watch someone produce a high budget Lord of the Rings style version of Pilgrim’s Progress than watch that movie again.

You might like it, some people did.  I wasn’t a fan, both from the digression from the original premise as well as numerous plot elements, worldbuilding details and pieces of characterization that were quite dumb.  There were certainly some neat ideas and beautifully realized science fantasy images, but I found the…

It’s not Foundation. But it is good sci-fi.

Season One had the emergence of mystic powers. And - spoiler alert - the premise of ‘future history can be roughly predicted using large-scale human dynamics, and in doing so we will set up an institute (a foundation, if you will) to preserve human knowledge and help reduce the millennia of violence and regression…

That’s not what he’s saying at all. He’s saying at the time they weren’t able to get the vocal quality they desired from the demo recording so George didn’t want to go forward. But with AI, they can isolate Lennon’s vocals and reinterpret it to sound like he was recorded in a studio.  If George could have gotten the…

Dr. Lizardo, I must entreat you for help. I have been here since the beginning. I was at bar events with Meredith, Annalee and Charlie Jane back in the way back in the day. I had Meredith sign her vampire book at Brownies in the East Village. But the madness of the sale and kinja (and the death of Iain M. Banks, long…

Blame the consumer for not supporting overprice capitalism. good on gen z for not blowing their money on overpriced poison.

I’m kinda proud of Gen Z for this one. I don’t want live performance venues to suffer, but I also want people to make healthy choices.

...and considering how FREAKING GOOD Across the Spider-Verse is, I anticipate Beyond the Spider-Verse to straight-up shatter box office records next year due to the same dynamic.

If you want to see what “everyone didn’t go see the first movie on the first weekend, but whenever they got around to it, they loved it like the rest of us” looks like, it took ITSV three weeks what ATSV did in three days at the US box office ($120 million). 

So this means we are obviously and collectively over our “superhero fatigue.” Although we might all obviously, collectively, and very rapidly, develop both Superhero and Pixar fatigue on June 16th. Maybe Wes Anderson fatigue too. I'm so very, very tired.

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