It's not stupid, just not profound or novel, but I found Cohle's blunt nihilism to be refreshing when the current general climate of intellectual snobbery seems to lean towards unquestioningly embracing hedonistic, bourgeois optimism as somehow being the mature response to the fact that existence is kind of a load of…

The plagiarism allegations are overblown. It's not like nihilism is a particularly original line of thought.

"The Scooby Doo"

This has been advertised in approximately the same way a studio might advertise a movie about a twerking koala. I can't imagine anyone is going into this with hopes of seeing a faithful adaptation.

Surely them rebelling against the Children gives them an agency of their own? My guess is that the Night's King will turn out to be some force that turned the White Walkers to his own ends, rather than just the random head of the White Walkers.

They already established that the whole series revolves around prophecies, and if that's the case, the concept of past and future being predetermined and known by magical forces isn't a big leap.

THE RED GOD: "THIS ISN'T HEBREW INTERNATIONAL, YOU SECOND RATE SHITOMANCER!"

The presence of prophecies mean time travel has already been in play. There's little difference between Bran affecting the past and Hodor seeing the future. Now, please take a minute to recover from HAVING YOUR MIND BLOWN.

I want them to replace all future Dorne scenes with their fartastical reenactments.

And then Episode 6: "Sansa Marries the Night's King"

To be fair, it remains the definitive work in its genre.

Lionhead's problem was that they had cool ideas but no idea how to make an engaging game, so their products just ended up being digital novelty toys: 15 minutes of fun followed by the rapid onset of buyer's remorse. Black & White was basically a $50 gorilla-slapping simulator and the Fable games felt like being stuck…

Nolan failed to avoid the Schumacher trap of shifting the narrative focus to the villains.

When it first aired, I gave up on the first season as well and finally went back to it after the series ended. Around the second season, it stops being misery porn and becomes a thoroughly amusing caper.

There's always been a fair share of healthy skepticism about Forrest Gump given that the book was more cynical with Gump being more coldly Asperger-y and less of a magical retard.

I can see why kids like it because they accept everything as maximally earnest, but to me, it always reads like someone hastily slapping together a passive-aggressive satire of children's fantasy conventions.

I just watched the first one yesterday with my kids. I saw it when it originally came out and remembered being indifferent, but oh my, how the years have been unkind. Still, I did enjoy how the wildly incongruous soundtrack choices played like they just inserted someone's late 90's mp3 playlist and decided that was…

JD Salinger is a big, fat phony!

This album references David Alan Grier bits? I'm sold!

Yes, yes I do.