Brilliant insight!! 100% agree. They just need to be reined in. 

“Even in the apocalypse, Tom finds a way to keep his edge-up fresh as he tries to saves all the white people from racism.”

THIS. And the fact that his name was Tom. These two things won me over to taking your reading seriously, even if there’s a comedic, absurdist tone to it (i.e. “For some reason, the only thing…

I was definitely moved

Hellooooo???? I'd say that the Battlestar Galactica reboot DESTROYS the original....not even a serious question/debate in my opinion. So I cannot agree more with this article, and I do think that remakes CAN be far superior than the original. But it isn't easy to do.

I **highly** recommend reading the novel An Honorable German by Charles McCain for more insight into perhaps what it was like to be a German soldier during WWII - lots of U-boat action here, written in first person. I think it'd make a great movie, actually...I'm as anti-Nazi as anyone, and this book did a good job of…