The fact that this was somehow a passion project for him had me poised to see my first Channing Tatum flick.

Agreed and well said. Tatum annoyed the hell out of me in his early days. But over time, seeing him present as so unassuming and so good-natured about his acting limitations, and seeing that he has really good comedic timing, has turned my opinion on its head.

They probably told him that they were rewriting the script to squeeze in Mystique and Wolverine because it ain’t an X-Men movie without them.

I was sort of looking forward to this based solely on his inexplicable boundless enthusiasm.

Lots of naysayers, but I’m going to call this bad news. Channing Tatum has been SUPER excited about this forever. That kind of enthusiasm gets transferred into the quality of a project more often than not. Makes it even weirder (and a little concerning) that he’s seriously considering walking away though.

So... Taylor Kitsch? (It worked for Deadpool)

He is supposed to be pretty good in Foxcatcher or so I’ve read. And of course, 21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street are both surprisingly entertaining, though they are comedies.

Dragoncon. You need to go to Dragoncon.

One time at Dragon*Con Annalee and I went to a panel about Pern that was just “Dragonriders of Pern” fans all talking about what it would be like to live on Pern.

I’m with you on this. I also won’t eat chicken that has bones and/or skin attached. I won’t do bone-in ribs though oddly enough, t-bone steaks are fine. And lobster is just gross.

my sister has this problem. she likes to buy boneless, pre marinated cuts of meat with no indication of what part of the animal they are. i, however, will wrestle an asian grandmother for a 79 cents a pound chicken carcasses to make stock out of (the asian grocery store runs out of leftover chicken parts fast, you…

Fully willing to admit same.

My wife refuses to eat anything off the bone. It that reminds her it was an animal while she’s eating it (other than BBQ ribs, because that flavor trumps her aversion).

Okay. This might be the most evil thing I ever did in my life. I had a friend who was a pilot for Dash Air. Mostly just freight, occasional passengers, that flew between Northern and Southern California. He would sometimes drop in for a visit when in Los Angeles. On one visit, he complained that his copilot was a big…

I worked at a subway. They actually took away our employee discounts when the usage reports said we were putting on too many veggies. There were other factors, but you bet your ass we were being stingy with the olives that month.

I understood that reference. X-Wing ftw.

Probably covered by someone else, but the X-Wing novels made it clear that pretty much everyone in the crowd was slaughtered seconds after the statues fell.

Wedge seems to be (one of) the main protagonist, which makes me happy. Rogue Squadron for the new alternate timeline.

It’s hard to suppress a smile at the X-Wing reference.