I've had the feeling for a while that Melanie is a kind of Moira MacTaggart character, created because Bryan Singer screwed up Moira so badly in the movies. And Summerland in this season was a rough analogy for Muir Isle in the X-Men comics when the main team disbanded, Legion got possessed by the Shadow King, and…

I agree wildly. Honestly, I wouldn't mind if they did a hard reset back to the end of the Claremont/Simonson age. (Kind of like what they were doing with the Forever titles, but for realsies in the 616 or whatever it's called these days.) Consistent, understandable (though still complicated) continuity was what made…

Not in your own country, for alleged crimes against your own country.

If you get immunity and they catch you lying, though, immunity's off. He's probably going to be honest.

I was saying BOO-urns.

Meh, Wolves isn't my favorite but it's still the Dark Tower. Honestly, the one change I would have made would have been to excise 90% of the Callahan stuff, just because devoting so much material to a new character never seemed like a wise choice to me. But it was still a fun read.

The last three are fine, I think, even if I doubt they are anyone's favorite. From among the last three, Song of Susannah was a surprisingly light, nimble read that also ended on some good cliff hangers. I liked it.

I love The Wastelands too, abrupt ending at all. Drawing of the Three is probably second. The other ones are fairly far behind those, though I like them all in their own way.

Lucky you. I read that entire turd of a novel and it only got worse. It was clearly a draft of a better idea that King just stopped working on and decided to publish.

The one that has stuck in my head is "Thinking Out Loud," where he is doing a shitty impression of Marvin Gaye in what is allegedly a love song to his beautiful girlfriend. He proclaims her beauty is "evergreen," and, in what is either (1) a ill-informed attempt to sort-of rhyme words or (2) an indication that…

It should not get made. The anime is fine. Hollywood needs to leave it alone.

Lisa Kudrow is pretty amazing, actually. Watch The Opposite of Sex and Web Therapy and marvel at her timing and physical comedy skills. She's a delight.

On the upside: my five year old decided last weekend that he wanted to watch the Supergirl TV show on Netflix, and based on what I knew, I figured it was pretty harmless and it was something we could at least do together. And it turns out that it's a pretty great show. (And, as a bonus, it finally got my son — who is…

This sounds exquisitely stupid.

The text of the review makes it sound a bit better than a C+. I've never seen one of this guy's films, though, so I'm probably lacking the context here.

Hopefully we are all in a better place now than then!

I guess that's as good an interpretation as any. I didn't see the question of Kanji's sexuality as being definitively resolved by the end of the game, and the Naoto thing kind of put him at a weird resting place. They are just teenagers after all. I suppose I am what the kids today would call a cis gay man (sort of…

I don't know the song, but the artist is terrible. Do not listen because he will infect your mind and you will never be the same. Stay away from terrestrial radio just to be safe.

You didn't think Kanji was a progressive gay character, particularly for a Japanese game? His whole arc, IMHO, was about confronting the pernicious myths about gay people and figuring out his path for himself independent of those ideas. Frankly, I thought it was progressive by any standard.

I would be surprised if they didn't have the original Japanese voice track. Most of the recent games are offering that option.