It’s hilarious seeing the hypocrisy from everyone rising up to champion this film. Well, they aren’t exactly championing this film or FFC, they are just taking a contrarian opinion. These are people who didn’t see any of FFC’s last films, and wouldn’t sit all the way through them even if forced. And not ONE of them,…

Calling it: Toranaga is the heir’s true father. The show has gone to great lengths to explain how the Taiko couldn’t father a child with any of the other wives. It wasn’t them, it was him. Lady Ochiba knew she only had one chance to produce an heir and turned to the man who put Taiko on the throne, or straw mat, or…

you were the only one able to get out of the way of the ship falling forward.

I remain baffled at anyone who supports the storytelling decisions the Star Wars franchise has made for the past 40 years, and yes, I’m going all the way back to Empire Strikes Back. Yes, the story of Star Wars has been a cobbled together MESS from day one. DAY ONE. I give the Original Trilogy a pass because they did…

You have to put yourself in Kennedy and Iger’s position in 2012 and honestly evaluate the state of Star Wars at that moment. I can’t fault them for the overall direction they decided to take. They HAD to do a soft reset. They had to shutter the old Expanded Universe. It was just too bloated and restrictive for telling…

That’s true. It’s just exhausting having to mentally jump through all the retcon hoops just to get to a state of not despising the story we were initially given. The Clone Wars has barely, BARELY, made the Prequels tolerable. Even so, I can’t engage with a Prequel without the crushing knowledge of how it made every…

This is what I find truly annoying about modern criticism. There’s only ONE reason why the New Republic is as messed up as it is. JJ Abrams. He and his creative team made the incredibly lazy decision to just undo all the progress made from defeating the Empire and descended right back into the good guys being a…

Herbert's Dune ironically turned into Jodowrosky's Dune by book four. 

I suppose, but Louis CK is definitely not known for any particular comedy album enough to be on a top 20 or even top 50 list. He’s a TV comedy special guy. But Cosby? Contrary to Sam01415's incorrect subjective opinion, Bill Cosby was brilliant and hilarious. Cosby’s albums were in every family’s homes in the 60s and…

So what you’re saying is that Bill Cosby “Himself” would be on this list if not for Bill Cosby himself.  

This is a cowardly list, keeping Bill Cosby off of it. Say what you will about his crimes, but his place as the pre-eminent comedian of several generations cannot be erased. I don’t know that Louis CK ever had an actual comedy album, so his not being on this list isn’t as egregious, but you don’t have comedy as it is…

As with all music lists, it should be titled “My personal top 30 favorite Police songs made up of at least a dozen that no one else in the world listens to except me to make me look like I’m a true aficionado, not like the rest of you poseurs.”

There are too many contradictory or hypocritical arguments going on in the AI space that too easily get conflated and cross-pollinated in discussions like this.

All snarking aside, this show is actually really good. I don’t understand why the CW is crossing over to airing it, but it’s a legit prestige TV series. First couple of episodes it is a bit wobbly, but by episode 3, it gets its footing and becomes something that is at least shooting for something special. Regardless…

The only way a continuation/spinoff could work is if the show abandons the “everyone and everything must be about niceness” mandate it too slavishly stuck to in season three. Everyone had already completed their journeys to niceness, so any future stories would have to be allowed to be about other things. I truly…

Personally, I’ve lost all confidence in this creative team to narratively pull the trigger.  They totally chickened out of this season’s main storylines, so I think it’s best to just move on to something they feel they are willing to explore in full detail.

That’s true, but I’m 100% a proponent of taking the shot, rather than shrinking from taking the shot. If it’s terrible, then no one will remember or care. Who is still anywhere whining about AfterMASH or Joey or Caprica? No one cares about the failed or meh spinoffs. None of the original shows were damaged by the…

I remember now! Not sure if it's returning in June, but Winning Time season 2 is the imminent show I'm most excited about. 

True, but that’s never stopped a TV series from creating new problems for a character. You can have him dealing with massive fame. American fans are just as toxic as the worst European soccer has to offer. How would Ted fare outside of his safe Richmond bubble? How does he win his wife back? How does he motivate the…

The Boys? Black Mirror? True Detective? There's stunting else starting in June that's slipping my mind.