This looks terrible. Why can't they introduce new Borg instead of re-using Darth Vader? And isn't that whole scene with Vader a violation of the Prime Directive? Besides, I'm pretty sure it's established lore that Jedi only get 12 regenerations.

I think it helps a lot with the teenagers' high school arc that i grew up on the films that they're referencing in that material. Yes, Nancy and her friends are taken straight from the John Hughes films and the clones they spawned. But the show immediately sets about subverting the expectations that those films set…

As someone who was around (albeit young - '78 kid) in the 80s, did anyone else think it was a little lazy that the five 80s bands the brother mentions or listens to in the first few episodes (David Bowie, the Clash, the Smiths, Joy Division and Television) are the same ones that are thought of as legendary today? For…

In fairness, this story (which is making the rounds of the western press - I'm not blaming AV Club exclusively, though I don't think it's asking to much for them to at least speak to the Chinese press, if not the Chinese outlets themselves; it's particularly ironic, given the furore about diversity regarding this…

Yeah, I agree with the reviewer all the way. It's bad that the show didn't make Bayley a vicious psycho who I can easily dissociate myself from. Don't they know how important it is that white audiences are reassured that, so long as they aren't a frothing eye-patched moustache-twirling EEEVVVILL villain, they aren't…

Don't spread lies about lesser-known Jake Gyllenhal characters!

Given the advanced medical technology of the series, how do you know that they aren't ALL already trans?

Sulu being gay? Yawn (not a disapproving yawn, just a disinterested one).

Any time someone tries to tell you that there's hope for humanity, remind them that it took 6 seasons of Game of Thrones before someone got round to thinking up that joke.

Exactly, it CAN still die, it just isn't breaking any rules if it chooses not to. [sheds a tear for Stannis' epic grammar pedantry]

[Richard Dawkins takes the bait and responds] THIS SHOW WAS MADE BY RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISTS TO TURN OUR KIDS AWAY FROM SCIENCE!!!

Given that he'd traded the booze for bottled water back in the late 90s, and that he was clearly suffering from a genuine and long term mental illness, i'd suspect it's less 'alcoholism induced weight gain' and more 'seroquel or other antispychotic medicine induced weight gain'. That stuff makes you pile on weight,…

Funny, it might be cultural (half Italian but from a very southern Italian family) but I get it. He's a decent guy with lifelong ties that he can't break. He's been with cersei ever since the womb, she's fundamental to who he is - he couldn't choose to be disloyal to her (and in the lannister family, that means…

Hey, Arya has to travel close to there if she's heading back to the main action. And they've made a point of her finally acknowledging that the Hound wasn't like the others on her list and that she owes him. Her time with the faceless men might also have given her some perspective on being the lackey stuck obeying…

Am I the only one who, despite wanting the Hound to come back, feels that Cleganebowl would be a really depressing betrayal of the character. The guy deserves some peace. Having him make that character arc during his time with Arya, and then returning him straight to his old ways, would imply that he's forever trapped…

It's sort of acknowledged in the book that he's nowhere near as good a jouster as a fighter, for that reason. In terms of jousting ability, Jamie is presented as the perennial favourite to win, with the Mountain being not really any more favoured than, say, the Hound, Renly, and Loras - and behind guys like Jorah…

It found a thrift shop, bought some clothes and decided to put them on some of the people in front of the camera occasionally?

I googled that, and it gave me some kind of Canadian ice-hockey site.

Pick the American. OK, that's mean given that I don't disagree with the main thrust of the article, only the historical claim that the show is implausibly brutal compared to the history that inspired it.

Anyone made a study of whether Michelle Fairley is getting enough work at the moment? Surely that's got to be the major limit on whether that particular truthcorner pays dividends?