Look, I’m a big Ghostbusters 2 fan. Big Vigo fan. I defend that movie against its detractors and I do so proudly. I like it a lot and think it’s unfairly maligned. Peter MacNicol just makes me laugh with his odd speech and accent and mannerisms.

I enjoyed the movie thoroughly. I feel like this talk of “fan service” from some commenters (and other io9 writers) is conflating “fan service” with “easter eggs.” Finding a Twinkie in the glove box or a Crunch bar in Egon’s jumpsuit are easter eggs. Arguably, the end when the Ghostbusters show up to help our new…

This network of sites excels at simply being contrarian.

The problem, as I understand it, has to do with how the visual effects were rendered originally. Or at least that’s what was tough about the TNG remaster. The person-to-person scenes on the ship or planetside, whatever, were done on film, but visual effects were done digitally and that means the effects need to be…

The fact that the AV Club rated Ghostbusters 2016 a B and this a C tells you everything you need to know about this review.

You’re reading io9. It’s intersectionality all day every day around here.

If Carter chided Conan for anything, it was not being more judicious in his contracting. His contract did not have time-based language stating, in effect, hosting the Tonight Show at 11:35 PM EST. Apparently, Jay’s contract did have that. It seemed like, if there was any criticism of Conan, it was that his team was…

Unlike Jimmy Fallon.

Not at all. This is how The Walking Dead lost me over time. It’s created an inconsistent fiction.

If you’re going to reference it in your review, particularly with the emphasis you put on it, you should describe it. Writing 101.

The greatest sin behind Glenn’s demise was the poor writing that put it into motion.  

I was waiting to see how fast the comments would devolve into a Roddenberry hate train and, well, “immediately” is certainly a unit of time we could use.

Given that Marvel is doing the "What If?" series and Star Wars already has the "Forces of Destiny" vignettes, why doesn't Star Wars look at something akin to an anthology format to tell stories like this? To Germain's point, the Bad Batch were kind of shoehorned into this. Why not embrace the idea of telling stories…

I have loved Michael Emerson in everything I’ve seen him in (The Practice, Lost, Person of Interest). But in all of those roles, he’s been fairly ambiguous characters. Maybe seeming “evil” or “bad” at first blush, but then playing a richly layered person. Evil was the first instance where I felt like he was playing…

If it was cut because, creatively, it didn’t serve the story like they originally thought then, OK. But cut for “time?” What does that even mean? It’s streaming! Plus, it's Marvel. I'm pretty sure they could say, "All right. Each episode is 2 and a half hours and people would sign up to watch." 

This is a “Lifehacker” article?

Once upon a time, when someone we knew and liked read things with which we didn’t agree or watched something we didn’t enjoy, we... well, we didn’t do anything. Usually, we didn’t notice.

Yes, that’s how I feel, too. Mac & Me was a really solid episode with riffing that mostly felt more in line with the rest of the series. The “Gauntlet” season overall was a better run.

I don’t think those guys wish ill of Joel or the new guys. But there certainly seems to be some kind of gulf.

I continually wonder about this, too. Mike, Trace, and Frank never really say anything publicly about it. Bill, Kevin, Josh, and Mary Jo, obviously, were involved in the 1st season back and even did some writing. Mary Jo and Josh will write for the new season, too. But the absence of the others just stands out to me.…