Prinze did a great job bringing to life exactly the useless, cliche-ridden heap that Bioware created. He gets props; Bioware does not.

Bioware absolutely leans on cliches. They write pulpy stories, for the most part. Pulp lives or dies based upon the emotional investment it receives from its audience. If it fails to connect, it's wide open to critique from any number of angles, and they're entirely legitimate.

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Mordin was indeed tops. For all the crap in ME3, they did him justice. I have a feeling he was somebody's labor of love.

I rather thought that the McGuffInception of The Crucible and The Catalyst driving the whole third game was a hint of terrible things to come. The game had too much fan service and not enough narrative risk OR cohesion (which is strange, because wouldn't you think the former would get sacrificed for the latter?)

Fuck it; kill Juliette, send Hank to the farm, kill Nick and make Monroe an honorary Grimm. I'm sick of this shit.

@avclub-fbca7c48c185890bd31f538b91ba5fbb:disqus My theory would be that for TMBG, people respond to the almost suffocating levels melancholy contained within their songs. I know I do! Also, their references tend to be more obscure and cerebral, which would seem to be a good fit around these parts.
Weird Al, well, I…

I find it a nominally clever running theme that Sally sucks at being a ghost. Obviously it still begs the question of how, exactly, the other ghosts are figuring out how to suck so much less. I enjoyed Danny's "I became a ghost in prison, bitch!" because it reminded me of Chappelle v. Godzilla, but yeah, the show…

And yet, they've even attempted to bridge the gap between pseudo-science and straight-up "a wizard did it" magic with this very idea: wolfy explained to cop-boy that even when Wessen go native, the overwhelming majority of humans can't process the experience. They easily could have massaged this into an entirely…

Magic coins? Really? Hitler's a creature? Really?

And it all went according to plan. It's amazing how calm people will be, as long as everything is going according to plan.

Wolverine Origins was totally awesome… for the entirety of the opening credits where nobody talked. After that, it took a turn.

Well I'm glad you didn't say it just because of the pedo/ginger/scot fetish factor, even though we're all thinking it.

Dear Kurt,

While it's certainly unscientific to give advice and to use words like "better," the data collection methods and the trends observed fall squarely within the realm of scientific inquiry.

Science suggests that while there is beauty without strangeness, it's a generic, second-tier form of beauty that doesn't get the best results (at least as far as people-seeking-women is concerned.) It's better in the long run to be regarded as both a 1 and a 10 (just for example) depending on who's looking, than it is…

Originally they were death rays, but the budget was cut.

Yeah, having it be Winona would be terrible.

Attempts to idiot-proof society will simply result in better idiots, but I do share your frustration with the current crop.

Lucifer - or rather, Halucifernation (Hal for short!) - might not be the greatest idea the show's ever had, but casting Mark Pellegrino is rarely a bad one. The guy regularly does good work with material that doesn't deserve him.