From what I remember, Jericho's show-runners and NBC had some kind of spat up-front about how the show should work, which ended up with NBC using their own writers to drive the show for the first 1/3-ish of season 1, which was by far the worst, slowest, and most melodramatic part of the show. After they went on their…

Yeah, I get why people don't like STID, but I think they're wrong. Outside of the opening sequence and everything from "KHAAAAAN" through the end, it was actually a pretty interesting take on the original story. The militarization of Starfleet in the wake of the near-destruction of one of the oldest races in the…

Until Bran wargs into the dragons and takes Westeros back for Winterfell.

There has never been another show that has forced me to pause it so I can physically pace around the room and calm down. The Shield is just so incredible and tense and unrelenting. And man... fuck Shane.

The only think I've been able to come up with for the Magneto point is that they *knew* Magneto would be a dick and ruin everything, but that was what was needed to make Mystique realize she was wrong. It's absolutely asinine if that's true, but nothing else really makes sense.

I think one of the problems is that they used this movie to set up a very, very large part of the MCU, which relegates a lot of what happens to magical exposition. I think (hope) a lot of it will make more cohesive sense in the coming years.

New Saga is out today, actually!

Oh, gotcha. I think I read your statement as meaning more along the lines of "he'd only have to do a little mocap work" period, instead of considering that you meant they'd only done a little bit thus far, so he'd only have a little bit to redo. My bad!

The thing Naughty Dog has done with their games since the start of the Uncharted series is to basically marry the voice acting and mocap work so that the performances they get are more "realistic" and natural. If they recast a character, they'd have to redo all the scenes.

Pretty much this. The protagonists of the game were downright awful and unlikable in every way and I had no reason to care about anything that happened to anyone. In fact, I was reaaaaally hoping for Luc to win and erase the entirety of the Grasslands into oblivion. It's such a shame because the villains and their…

Definitely agree there.

If one guy on the team sucking costs them a playoff spot and his resurgence nets them one, doesn't that literally mean he is the most valuable player on his team? What am I missing? They have a dozen other guys who could've made up for his lapse who didn't. When a team lives or dies by one player, that seems to…

100% agree on all counts. Crosby is far and away the better player and you could pair him with anyone and they'd end up amazing, most likely. Ovi shouldn't be Captain at all. He's a bit player. An incredibly important bit player, but nonetheless. He's not a leader and he's really never even acted the part.

Oh don't get me wrong. No one can ever call Crosby a bad player. He's going to go down as one of the top 5 or 10 best to ever play, probably. That doesn't mean he doesn't make *bad plays*. That Ovi gif is just pure bullshit, though, because it wasn't his play to make and he was in position. It's annoying that it still…

Yeah, along with this guy.

You realize it wasn't an 82-game season last year, right? And his last half of the season was absolutely insane. 23 goals and 13 assists in 23 games. He more or less single-handedly willed his team into the playoffs when they were dead in the water. I think that's kind of the definition of the Hart?

Iain De Caestecker is probably my favorite actor on the show. He's been progressively better and better in every episode, and he absolutely killed it in this one. The moments where he was refusing to open the door because May shot at him and when he told Garrett off and the subsequent fight afterwards were all…

Why not? Hand has been incredibly heavy-handed in every scene we see her in. Hell, she starts off by assuming EVERYONE is in Hydra and planning on killing ALL of them, Garrett first and foremost with the drones. What would stop her from offing a top Hydra agent who she is also might suspect is the Clairvoyant? With…

Kiera has always been the true villain of the story. Just look at the future she comes from that she's trying to protect and what means she'll use to that end.

'Dark' is not really the right word at all. If anything, Cap is just conflicted. Extremely conflicted. As a soldier, his life was built around trusting your comrades and believing in your superiors, and everything that happens in this movie forces him to face all of that blind trust head on. It forces him to make some…