Anytime someone gets really famous fast, there will always be a group declaring loudly that they’re not jumping on the bandwagon - as they ride a different wagon, they apparently don’t see, down the road...

I am mystified by people’s need to declare how over Benedict Cumberbatch they are, how they just don’t get it, etc.

Arrow season 1. Take a shot every time he says “you’ve failed this city.” Congrats, you’ve got alcohol poisoning.

I don’t watch any of the DC shows, so I’m the wrong person to ask. I tried with Legends of Tomorrow, but only made it through the first half of the series premier.

Falcone, recovering from injuries he received at the hands of Batman, doesn’t mince words and says that he, Thomas Wayne, and Mayor Hamilton Hill used their individual influence in the criminal, business and political realms to ascend to power in Gotham City.

So it was moral outrage rather than quality outrage.

I tried, but as soon as “Sokovia Accords” came out out of someone’s mouth I had to shut it off because this “same universe” stuff is bullshit because you know the movies give two shits about the show and the latter just hangs by the table waiting for scraps pretending they’re actually part of the dinner.

I think Agents of Shield is exactly what Ghost Rider needed.

Ghost Rider was amazingly well done. I loved it.

I love the “clomping foot of nerdism” quote. I’ve often felt that Tolkien had a much larger impact than he should on fantasy, to the point where 99.9999% percent of the material out there is in some way imitating either Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, or frequently both at once. The better ones engage in a dialogue with…

I never read Robert Jordan, and likely never will — life is just too short — but it seems like the same thing happened to him. He became so fixated on the world, its history, cosmology, etc. that it became the whole focus of his project, to the point where he was writing thousand-page novels in which literally nothing…

I think the main reason Martin is taking so long is because he’s so caught up in worldbuilding that he’s forgotten to finish the story that the world is set in. It happens to me all the time when I try coming up with story ideas. You get so caught up in figuring out how your world works that you forget to tell the…

Just remember that the inverse of that is just as true, and the show is actually more appalling than bad. “Atrocious” would also be an acceptable description.

Clara always gets a star. Or is that Oswin?

‘Loves his junk’

Why are you here? Why are you so proud of your lack of responsible thought processes on the topic?

I agree but it still doesn’t change the fact that they never really used the idea of a divided crew, constantly used the Reset Button to never deal with long-term consequences, and the nascence that was Neelix, who was the Star Trek equivalent of Jar Jar.

The thing is, with Lucas running the show, he was free to rip off whatever he wanted. But from here on out Star Wars is just going to imitate itself, or at least the parts everybody likes.

Yeah, but Star Wars ripped off everything. Shamelessly. Old serials, B-movies, classic movies, Depression era comic strips, Silver Age comic books, Golden Age science fiction stories. Back in the ‘70s and ‘80s, everyone assumed that Lucas was coming up with this crazy space wizard stuff on his own because they didn’t…