I had mixed feelings about Cochran last time he was on. He was still a bit too awkward, but I am glad to see how much the guy has matured. He's the one I am rooting for.

I can't really agree on Reynold as marginally competent. Granted, finding the idol was a good move, but outside of challenges, he has done EVERYTHING wrong. He openly formed an alliance with a minority of the tribe. To compound that, the tribe reads as two couple to everyone else. He made no moves to get any influence…

@avclub-a1967e6de4ca99fb2635d94b99453928:disqus I think that Dawn's  emotional instability will make it harder for her to get credit, even if she does deserve it. Cochran can come off as flakey, but he doesn't go off on crying jags.

Actually, Malcolm's episodes hadn't aired when this was made, so he has the singular advantage of being on a tribe here he knows all about everyone and they don't know him.

Money aside, do you think any of the cool kids want the indignity of losing a popularity contest.

You have no idea why Francesca was perceived as a threat? She immediately set herself up as the one who decides who stays and who goes for one thing. That put her in the firing line. Then having set herself as a leader and target, she melted down in front of her allies, worrying about imaginary idols and so on. The…

Malcolm was definitely hanging back, but I think that was even more heavily emphasized by the edit. He was on the right side of the vote, which they concealed to maintain the surprise. This means any strategy sessions he sat in on ended up being cut.

@avclub-2bae64ccc29ba96c677016f9588ff66e:disqus Then again, Dawn didn't really trust Cochran last time. Cochran was for jumping tribes and Dawn was afraid to make the jump. Probst painted it as a massive betrayal by Cochran, but Cochran did make the offer

To be fair to Brandon, this time he did actually target someone who was a traitor to his alliance. I realize that is probably just a coincidence, but I'll cut him a little slack for now, even if her doesn't really deserve it.

Am I the only one that suspects the genuineness of the some of the "cool kids" alleged coolness. All that talk from Reynold, the leader of the cool kid, about how they were the kids at the cool table smacked of the kinds of things that people watching the cool kids say. Real cool kids just take that shit for granted.…

I love that nine hours later, nobody seems to even know.

Why stop there? This poster for Star Wars has some flare action going on the lightsaber.
http://www.benzilla.com/upl…

@WrongSirWrong:disqus That might have been interesting to see. Pity he took on old, obscure sci-fi franchise that nobody cared about.

@GospelX:disqus @avclub-b12ed894105b79c6ae4494fcbe06bddb:disqus  I realized we had a big Catan thread and nobody had brought it up, so I had to be that guy. The fact that it came up organically helped. Yep. Communuty reference. I'm getting this AV club thing down!

I feel the same. Maybe the later variants are more fun, but I played the original version, but aside from the humor, there was nothing to it.

I think a lot of people aren't really scared of the luck in Catan, They are scared of the negotiating and haggling. Losing because of a bad roll is one thing, but they can't take losing because nobody would give them wood.

Arkham is as good as Todd makes it sound. It has the advantage of being really hard to win, but still a fun experience if you lose. It also ramps up the chaos slowly, so new players can get a feel for how the game works before the board becomes a complex maze of madness and death.

It helped too, that a lot of it was adaptations of short stories too. Only some of it holds up for me today, but I was about 12 when if first aired, so it was perfect TV at the time. It also served as a gateway to reading classic science-fiction, as opposed to reading Robotech novelizations, so I can thank it for that.

It helped too, that a lot of it was adaptations of short stories too. Only some of it holds up for me today, but I was about 12 when if first aired, so it was perfect TV at the time. It also served as a gateway to reading classic science-fiction, as opposed to reading Robotech novelizations, so I can thank it for that.

At least with Grodin, you can still take consolation in the fact that he would still hate you if he knew who you were.