I think Charlie should have been the POV character. Think about it, a small-town sheriff finds out his best friend is a werewolf and the town doctor is a vampire? I’d read the hell out of that.

The problem was that they didn’t want to shut down in the first place and then got mad and have been running a constant “Recall Newsom” campaign since... the day he was elected. (The reason they lean so hard on the tool is that it worked for removing Davis)

Yep, and just a reminder that anything from the OC health board director about restrictions is usually bullshit since this is the 3rd or 4th person they have had since this started. Each one was run off with death threats.

The baseball scene is evidence that Twilight would have been a fun series if you got rid of Bella and Edward.

I watched it religiously until the end of the ‘90s, though I stuck around for another two or three years after that. At some point it stopped being a big deal if I missed an episode.

I remember watching it on Tracy Ullman.

I think that Natalie stands by her work

Just starring this for the continued use of that Jake Peralta gif. The content was good too, BUT THAT GIF IS MY JAM.

Exactly this. Stop blaming the government for keeping you shut down. If people behaved better and didn’t act like spreading disease was a right guaranteed by the constitution, things would be open now.  Almost every other country on earth has done it.

Dude, tell me about it. I currently live in Costa Mesa, but I’m from Huntington Beach and I’m just disgusted by how pathetic the people in my hometown are. Anti-mask protests, hardcore Trumpers trying to fight protestors, it’s terrible.

I don’t want Disney opening and Newsom is right to keep it closed.

“...and I’m the only one who knows/that Disneyland’s about to close...”

Good for you. I grew up in a family of readers and have read an uncountable number of books, and the first time I tried Dune I 100% struggled with it.

Ondaatje or Rushdie would probably be easier for non-SF readers to wrap their heads around because they tend to deal with real world settings and issues. Rushdie, admittedly, does this in a more fantastical style (Midnight’s Children, in fact, has a shout-out to Dune in the form of the hero’s evil Aunt Alia), but…

The source material? The source material means jack shit.

You’re the second person (at least!) ‘round these parts to critique Rebecca Ferguson’s opinion on Dune, the novel, and I say this without trying to sound critical: I think maybe you should give her some slack.

No, she’s part of the great tradition of actors - Connery with Bond, Duchovny with X-Files and even Ford with Han to an extent - who like franchise money but want to shit on the franchises as beneath them.

Anyone else got a blinking red light on their control panel after reading that Natalie Portman interview? Like she doesn’t really care about the source material and she’s planning to just show up, read the lines and go home?

Why would you say such a thing. 

*Zack, goddamnit.

Agreed. And Michael Ansara (Kang, ftw) voicing Freeze was spot-on perfect casting. RIP.