An interesting episode that I admired more for the way it tied everything together than for what actually happened. It seems a waste to bring back both Jonas and the Blue Morpho, then get rid of them almost immediately. There might not have been anywhere else to go with the pair of them — well, the Blue Morpho /…

The Monarch’s dream with Rusty is probably a buried memory from when they were young. He remembers the conversation but is inserting their present day selves into the scene.

Oooooooh, I hates that hijacker!

Speaking for myself: In mountainous regions, like where I live, antennas are not be a viable option, or it might require a really good antenna to pull in the station that airs Jeopardy! Also, given that it’s the only show that I would watch over the air and I already have Hulu, when I cancel DirecTV, it would be nice…

I only keep trying The Three-Body Problem because everyone (except you) says it’s so good.

I am finally finishing up the slate of Hugo / Nebula nominees; I just finished Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 (and hated all 613 pages of it), and I’ll start Ann Leckie’s Provenance tonight. I’m looking forward to it ...

If you have trouble getting into The Three-Body Problem, I’d just let it go; the first 75 or so pages, in the Cultural Revolution, were the most fascinating to me. Later on, the story follows the viewpoint character as he infiltrates the most porous clandestine organization in the world; his main path into this…

A great start to the season, and I’m sad I’ll have to wait for the conclusion. (At least I hope that’s what I’m sad about.)

I wonder how many of them could be convinced to launch a bombing campaign against the religious fundamentalists in that noted terrorist haven, al-Abama.

Well, doesn’t MAGA stand for “Make America Gutless Again”?

My guess would be that Swihart knew it was a fake and saw that Diaz didn’t have the ball, but he thought they were trying to deke him for a different reason — trying to keep him from going from first to third on a base hit, maybe. He knew he wasn’t out, and he started looking for the ball only once he was around…

In case you were worried the show might be taking itself too seriously, tonight’s episode finds Sam and Eddie on the trail of a missing DJ.

“There are many people throughout the world who are proud to call Pope County home.”

Afghanistan: The Graveyard of Prime-Time Animation Empires.

Liefeld became big when he took over on New Mutants. I think we have the previous artist on New Mutants, Bret Blevins, to blame for Liefeld’s popularity; Blevins, by editorial direction, drew the New Mutants — a bunch of teenage protagonists, some of them at the older end of their teenage years— to look like tweens.…

I saw By Night #3 in the Boom! solicitations that just came out, and after making a note to look for the collected edition, I wondered why I hadn’t heard anything about this series, especially given that I read Bad Machinery every day and get Giant Days in trades. It wasn’t until I read this article that I realized…

I’m close to finishing reading all the Nebula best-novel nominees. I’m working through Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly, which is set in a secondary world that tries to capture the louche world of Weimar Germany through a combination of John le Carre and Cabaret. The latter comes through pretty well, but the…

The second book in the trilogy is very much a middle — moving pieces around in anticipation of the ending. There is a payoff at the end of The Obelisk Gate, if you’re willing to stick around for it, but from what you’ve said, I’m not sure you should. I’ve read the entire trilogy, and it feels like it could’ve been…

I mean, sure: they not only elected Sam Brownback to the Senate and governor’s mansion, they re-elected him to both positions despite the fact — and this is literally true — that he is Sam Brownback. But maybe Kansans just have a Brownback fetish.

According to Baseball Reference, Colón is 44, not 43. He turns 45 on May 24.