That's a fair point, though WoW is hardly unique in it. A lot of made-for-franchise fictional universes leverage the fuck out of that model due to a terrifying synergy between its potential for commoditization and the fact that the arcs practically write themselves. It's amazing how these blatantly lazy, bloated…

World of World of Warcraft, screenplay by The Onion and Charlie Kaufman and An Onion.

World of World of Warcraft, screenplay by The Onion and Charlie Kaufman and An Onion.

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I'd suggest her delivery method is more grating now than it has been in the past, too, and that that's partially a consequence of the time-compression inherent in splitting the show up into 2.5 distinct parts. The more wild and crazy and fast the leads are doing stuff, the more agitated/excited everything they say…

Yeah, looks like I read it wrong, and I suppose the fact that Hicks was behind Dani and not Speedy is a non-starter, though it would severely and abruptly break with the show's tradition of having of us privy to every pertinent "Alpha Moment" by the team.

Yeah, looks like I read it wrong, and I suppose the fact that Hicks was behind Dani and not Speedy is a non-starter, though it would severely and abruptly break with the show's tradition of having of us privy to every pertinent "Alpha Moment" by the team.

Love the characters (even Nina is experiencing a beginning-of-season boost, despite her arc essentially just being a second chance to do what should've been done last season) but hate the cop-out; honestly, it doesn't really make sense in-world. A mentally unstable hack doesn't somehow manage to hijack an entire…

Love the characters (even Nina is experiencing a beginning-of-season boost, despite her arc essentially just being a second chance to do what should've been done last season) but hate the cop-out; honestly, it doesn't really make sense in-world. A mentally unstable hack doesn't somehow manage to hijack an entire…

It seemed like they ("they" being the writers/director, I guess) made a pretty big deal out of not showing the tactical team sweeping in and surrounding the Alpha, even though you'd assume that that's what they'd do. Instead, they showed us what seemed like the whole team all just stopping short near the entrance to…

It seemed like they ("they" being the writers/director, I guess) made a pretty big deal out of not showing the tactical team sweeping in and surrounding the Alpha, even though you'd assume that that's what they'd do. Instead, they showed us what seemed like the whole team all just stopping short near the entrance to…

WH13 feels like it's slipping into some weird, 3-tier variation of the Long Kiss Goodnight/Gamer syndrome.

Because the lead singer's voice is so abrasive that it corrupts the goddamn .wav files every time you play a track, in addition to scratching the disc and scraping the foreskin off your grandfather's dick.

Because the lead singer's voice is so abrasive that it corrupts the goddamn .wav files every time you play a track, in addition to scratching the disc and scraping the foreskin off your grandfather's dick.

Eureka was always more about the ensemble than the plots, but over the years, the ensemble sold some stuff that probably would've made me snort in disgust and change channels nine times out of ten. They managed to make most of the whiplash-inducing switches between pathos and silliness seem sincere and earned, and…

Eureka was always more about the ensemble than the plots, but over the years, the ensemble sold some stuff that probably would've made me snort in disgust and change channels nine times out of ten. They managed to make most of the whiplash-inducing switches between pathos and silliness seem sincere and earned, and…

@avclub-1e2184e9a38acddfb65b66905ad70f9a:disqus  Artists actually do this kind of shit all the time; they deliberately screw with unlicensed samples just enough (relative to how popular they think their record is going to be) so that maybe they won't get caught.
 
I read a pretty fascinating interview with Mark De Gli…

@avclub-1e2184e9a38acddfb65b66905ad70f9a:disqus  Artists actually do this kind of shit all the time; they deliberately screw with unlicensed samples just enough (relative to how popular they think their record is going to be) so that maybe they won't get caught.
 
I read a pretty fascinating interview with Mark De Gli…

"Reasonable diligence" sounds like something that would need to be hashed out in court. It's likely the reason the lawsuit specifically mentions that the sample was "hidden," and that the Amazing Technology of 2011 was necessary to confirm its existence within the song.

"Reasonable diligence" sounds like something that would need to be hashed out in court. It's likely the reason the lawsuit specifically mentions that the sample was "hidden," and that the Amazing Technology of 2011 was necessary to confirm its existence within the song.