Indeed. As we stand, the only drawbacks are the inability to have children, the halting of the aging process (both of which would certainly be considered advantages to certain segments of the population) and the craving for brains — and while Fillmore-Graves proved capable of enough innovation to introduce the brain…

The one piece of illogic that continues to nag away at me like a rock in my shoe is the medical establishment’s relatively blasé attitude about a communicable condition that is literally a cure for every disease and most kinds of trauma. All you really need is a mass-producible substitute for brains (research on which…

I was wondering “Why does the anthropologist AI have synth-detector-fooling capabilities and the hunter doesn’t?” And then I realized that an anthropologist AI is the perfect person to have synth-detector-fooling capabilities.

This one reminded me of one of my favorite Farscape episodes, “Scratch ‘N Sniff”, from the 3rd season (a time when that show was at the peak of its powers and not afraid to go completely off-format — six episodes earlier they did a super-creepy horror episode called “Eat Me”) and while I agree it’s kind of early in…

I don’t disagree that it was kind of jarring. But when Stranger Things came out I compared its music to Tangerine Dream, so how contemporary are we really talking, ultimately? “Remember the ‘10s, when everybody was nostalgic for the ‘80s nostalgia for the ‘60s?”

It’s kind of a marriage between a spy drama and a Bill Lawrence hangout show, a bit like the perenially low-rated show that made Zachary Levi a household “Who’s that guy, is that Jim? Kinda looks like Jim, are you sure it’s not Jim?” ...that went by the similarly vague name Chuck (but survived* for 90 episodes**).

The…

Great interview, and I think mission accomplished regarding episode 7's moments of grace between Jim and Matt. I’m also someone who loathes mawkish sentimentality being presented as if it’s a realistic way for grown-ups to behave toward each other — and especially the presumption that if you don’t fall head over heels…

To an extent that’s kind of the BBC Factor, though, no? There are 22 MCU movies with four or five times as many bankable stars, so out of sheer volume you’re gonna see them paired up fairly often.

(By the “BBC Factor” I mean that every UK actor you love is in everything, because their shows only shoot 6 episodes at a…

At least he had some daddy issues to help bridge the gap.

I prefer to rank him among the various Lexes Luthor as portrayed on screen rather than stacking the deck for him by comparing him to the various low-wattage villains we’ve had on Supergirl (Witwer’s Ben Lockwood was the standout of this season -- maybe the series so far --and it wasn’t even close), and by that standard…

T.S. Eliot.

Moreover, why is Hitler?

Yeah, well, that was a lot of railroad tracks ago. I’m in Chicago, which since the Louisiana Purchase has always been Mid-something. To my way of thinking every state that touches Missouri, Illinois, or Indiana (excluding the OK/AR/TN belt, but I’ve heard it argued the other way) is a Midwestern state.

Let’s not ignore the effects of tone (3-camera, laugh track) and pacing (simple jokes without many layers thoroughly set up and pitched right over the plate before moving on to the next one) on older folks’ enthusiasm for comedies.

I have tried and tried to get my retirement-aged dad (who loves classic subversive-ish…

I’m voting for b) myself. Let’s have two 8-episode arcs and six episodes for crossovers or one-shots or whatever else they want to do rather than trying to stretch 10 episodes’ worth of plot into 22.

Yes! Those act breaks definitely triggered my reflex memory and it never let up, not through all 10 episodes!

Definitely agree that the show tightened up just about everything in this season. It’s the kind of improvement many shows make in their third/fourth seasons, I find. The cast and writers are firing on all cylinders and understand what kind of show they’re making and trust each other. Really, the only thing missing…

As a Midwesterner (the reigning champion of Poorly-Defined American Regions) I am compelled to ask — why does Idaho get to be in Pacific Northwest when ZERO percent of it touches the Pacific? That’s just madness.

Washington.  Oregon.  The part of California north of the pointy bit of Nevada.  That’s your Pacific…

Usually a spouse or romantic interest fills that role in the comics. That might be a good business opportunity, in fact — a network of contractors who show up to cook, do some light first aid, ask open-ended questions to prompt exposition dumps, and make excuses/cover for various unattached heroes in need. :)

The second-person narrative in the early going was hard for me to get a handle on at first, too, but a) there is a reason for it and b) that reason is pretty satisfying if you stick with it long enough for it to be revealed. (It didn’t hurt that I knew going in that all three books of the trilogy won the Hugo, an…