Alright, I’ll take the hate. Mad Max Fury Road is not that great of a movie. It’s smart for a blockbuster ‘splosion-fest, but it’s not actually all that smart. It HAS an ecological gimmick, but it doesn’t say anything about it. It HAS a sexist main hero and strong women, but it doesn’t really say anything about…

Apparently Rick and Daryl watched Smokey and the Bandit in preparation for this episode, and the crew told them that Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure would be a better fit.

The Jesus Chase scene is the scene that marks the point when TWD characters finally became as dumb as Gotham characters.

Unrelated note: where did they get a computer like this in 1975?

There was a time when that show was pretty good. Then they let girls be on it. Everyone got a girl. Jokes became dumber and seemed to switch from being about nerds to targeting nerd stereo types.

Wait, did the alien stuff ever make sense? It seemed like the show could never make up its mind about what/who the aliens were.

Except that „memetics“ is utter and complete bull and just shows how even supposedly smart and scientific-minded people fall prey to unscientific nonsense. It’s bad enough that people like Dan Dennett peddle this crap, but she’s got to be the worst of the meme-bunch. There’s enough criticism of the concept (I’m not…

I remember not being into the popular ‘80s writers at all — Anthony, Donaldson, Card, McCaffrey, et al. The only one I ever really liked was Douglas Adams, but he was a comedy writer who’d gotten stuck with a space opera gig entirely by accident. I ended up reading a lot of H.P. Lovecraft and Harlan Ellison, because I…

A significant amount of time was spent on the angst of teenage and prepubescent boys with mental issues.

I call bullshit. This was honestly the WORST. EPISODE. EVER. It was also a terrible mid-season finale and a ridiculous place to leave off in the story.

I know! They used to cram the same amount of plot into one episode that other shows would put into an entire season. It didn’t make much sense, but that was part of its charm. They’d think up some goofy plot twist, then have to explain it, and they’d be like “...uhh, druids did it! Obviously!” Season 1 just did not…

I miss the horseman so much. He was so badass before they have him back his head and turned him into whiny Abraham.

I don’t know why they can’t stick to the season 1 formula where the plot is insane and moves at breakneck speed. The story unfolds so much slower now and not nearly enough plot twists per minute.

I just wish they’d get back to season-one level insanity. The Headless Horseman shooting at cops with an AK-47! Ichabod is half-Horseman because their blood mingled! A new ridiculous monster every week with some equally absurd historic explanation! Season 2 had its moments, but really fell short when it came to…

Okay the real question is how is any of this still in effect when Eddie’s death eliminated Reverse Flash from existence? You can’t have him vanish in a paradox when all of his deeds remain. If he never existed then he never changed the past by murdering Barry’s mom and things are back to the way they were before with…

This one. One of the few SF novels that I had to read several times just to get. Mostly because I was 9 at the time and thought it was like the (what I believed was awesome but actually really crappy) mini series that my parents wouldn’t let me watch as it was on past my bedtime.

Was it the tornado, or the way Watney walked around? Or the fact that Martian air isn’t dense enough to cause the kind of destruction needed to initiate the movie in the first place? I am seriously asking, since I loved the book and can’t wait to see the movie.

Yes, about that rifle...you mean to tell me that he went to a big time arms dealer for a sniper rifle, had the opportunity to pick ANYTHING he wanted, and the best he could do was that piece of shit he’s walking around with? That makes NO sense whatsoever.

A thousand times this. I don’t expect GoT to ever be as brilliant as Rome, for example — but if it was half as entertaining as Spartacus was (once it got rolling), it would be a massive improvement.