You know, they do this to me all the time, I don't know what the hell they do it for…

I think I've spent two posts now connecting the dots pretty clearly, but I'll do it once more and then I'm off to bed in Dimension XB. Stewart et al. represented a sea-change in liberal attitudes in the space journalism used to occupy, replacing a longstanding commitment to objectivity with insults, straw men,…

> "You must be an idiot… Enjoy Dimension XB, deep thinker."

You must be joking. This was awful.

I love the way Colbert makes Tyson laugh at the 6:45 mark: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I was on Reddit not too long ago reading a post on /r/movies from someone who had just watched Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey". The post went something like:

I wrote a response to another comment (http://www.avclub.com/artic… ) that deals with some of what you say. I don't think Snyder ever intended people to assume the sort of massive casualties in the Metropolis battle that the internet ultimately did, but once the internet hung that albatross around his neck, he glibly…

I think there are both Dead Author and Author Intent arguments to be made in favor of "Man of Steel, but it's tricky to unentangle them when you're talking about a work with so much history and so many parents.

Making connections is what art is all about. The aims of the artist don't constrain what you ultimately see in their art, since artists are vehicles for forces larger than they are, especially commercial artists.

After "Man of Steel" came out, the internet began cooking up thinkpieces with ludicrously inflated casualty numbers, and then using those to utterly reject the entire film. Which is a shame. There's a lot more going on thematically in MoS than just a superhero story — it uses Superman as a metaphorical stand-in for…

Should've been Tom Mischke. I'm not saying he would've done it, just that it should've been him.

http://www.avclub.com/revie…

Before HaCF was announced, I was hoping for a drama based on the indie Atari 2600 developers of the early 1980s like Imagic and Activision:

I just watched that doc, and there's a moment when Lucas is taking his (adopted) son Jett to see Ewan MacGregor getting his hair cut to play Obi-wan. You can watch it here:

Honestly, if you can't write a review of "Maron" without comparing it to "Louie", you ought to just pass and let someone else who can do the job. (And why is AV Club reviewing the entire second season after 4 episodes?)

Can you expand on this? I'm intrigued.

I have a lot of sympathy for folks who feel like they lost a friend when they saw "Man of Steel". Superman has been a comforting embodiment of benevolent justice for generations, his fictional nature allowing him a perfection that no real human being can match. But big budget superhero movies are a dime a dozen, and…

millions of nameless civilians

> contributing to casualties comparable to a medium-sized war.

I think the point is that neither of Clark's dads actually give him good advice, and that Clark becomes not who either of them wanted him to be be, but who he discovers himself to be.