How else do you think you become the World’s Greatest Detective? Unsolved Mysteries, Forensic Files and a metric shit ton of true-crime podcasts, that’s how.

The Earth of 2024 was in incredibly dire straits in the Star Trek timeline. Many countries faced violent conflict and civil unrest, but America in particular took a turn towards a totalitarian decline in the period, wracked with severe economic crises, homelessness, and rapidly rising unemployment levels. 

Ok, but what if you dump too much seasoning on that nice cut of meat? Like to the point you can’t taste anything else?

Which I might have known had I ever read the books. Thanks for filling me in.

I have not read a single book or seen a single episode, but the anthology approach already makes more sense to me than this.

Hmmm, does this mean Star Wars once got some Foundation mixed into it then...?

I realize this is something of a self-fulfilling prophecy, but I’m tired of getting into these shows that just get canceled and leave a ton of stuff dangling (see: Debris, etc.). I’d rather wait until I know it’s going to stick around and be able to tell its story, but if everyone does that it won’t get more seasons.…

Agreed. This is the first Marvel movie I did not see on opening weekend since, well, ever. But as much as I love these and going to movies in general, I’m not risking my family’s health (we’re not all old enough to be vaccinated) just for some entertainment.

It’s not from one of the Borderlands game is it?

Either way, I’m going to call it here and now: despite the leeway science fiction usually gets, I predict Moonfall will be the most scientifically inaccurate movie ever made.

Rob, minor correction: Larry Elmore did that original cover.

Still my favorite D&D books, this stirs all kinds of feelings. Looks like I’ll have to go back and re-read them. Thanks, Rob!

Quoting the always relevant Robocop:

Yeah, lot of people struggling with the premise but it’s not that hard to envision how they got where they were. The audience simply didn’t see it and if they had, they’d bitch how it over explained anyway.

Well, I see everyone else here is dunking on it, so I’ll come out and say I really enjoyed it. I appreciated the story he was telling and thought the good parts far outweighed any nitpicks. But that’s just me.

yeah, but now they’ll go too far the other way and you won’t really see “Snake Eyes” as the audience is going to be expecting until the final frame of the movie, in an overly dramatic shot in the rain as he finally puts on the mask.

Needing a 2:1 majority approval sounds like a goddamn bullshit filibuster rule to me.

Question: Are Jander and Jasper one and the same? Has anyone ever seen them together? Does Jasper just wear a pair of glasses?

+1 for Elmore. Still love his work. 

Well, clearly Mithral is spelled completely differently than Mithril, so I don’t know how anyone could confuse the two. Also, this gives me confidence in my own planned story that is definitely NOT just Hamlet but with elves. For one, the skull will belong to Yorrack, so right there, completely different.