He planned for it, but he did not program her to do it. The point is that she formed her own identity and made the choice to start the killing.

Same! I thought, "Ah-ha! Ford's programmed Maeve to go out and kill the Abernathy data mule!" Must not be.

He could be a robot! Maeve would be programmed to see him as human!

I imagine Dolores will want to keep him alive, for interrogation or torture or what-have-you. They have to keep him alive until Maeve joins the rest of the uprising and can confront him.

He 'confronts' Ford with Dolores. Whatever robot feelings he might have had were probably supplanted by curiosity over Dolores and the maze.

I think the point is that Maeve also has a genuine moment of consciousness, going off book to find her "child." The question now is whether the writers will make it clear that this was all Ford's doing as well, and whether they want to say Felix (and Sylvester?) were recruited by Ford to push this forward. It would…

He's so obviously not gay here. His character's plane is about to crash, and he spends his last few seconds feeling up his supermodel coworker. Attaboy!

So… is Tom Cruise the mummy? Or, another mummy, at least?

God damn, people, take a breath. This was a horrible thing for Bertolucci to spring on a young actress, but there was no rape. Stop saying there was a rape on screen.

Cool.

And says "Sorry" to everyone he nearly tramples.

I'm very nervous about the critical response to The Last Guardian… give us a win, 2016.

Ten year production cycles aren't cheap.

Everyone in FF has been tropey and hypersexualized. It is an odd choice that they center it around 4 characters, all of them men, but that also separates it from the rest of the series.

The standard autopsy starts to go awry as they discover that while she’s perfectly preserved on the outside, Jane Doe’s body contains gruesome clues as to what happened to her.

The online games are mostly about magical girls, too. ETA: Which, to be clear, is not meant in a dismissive way. The protagonist of every expansion in FFXI is a woman, each awesome in their own way, some of them the most memorable in the franchise. They naturally need the player's help, but they all work on their own…

Thanks to FlimFlam, I got all excited for one of the New 3DS consoles at $99 last weekend. Amazon started sales two days early, pissing off a lot of folks. Other stores started selling on Thanksgiving, and I wasn't gonna try anything that day. Fortunately, there's a small Gamestop around the corner from me, in the…

Indeed. I can see why this kind of thing annoys others, but to me it's just more Japanese aesthetic-silliness. Like a group of guys wearing leather to fight monsters in the desert. As long as the characters don't ogle her as the camera zooms into her cleavage, it's less jarring to me than some of the pandering in…

FFIX starts off with you trying to get tickets to a play, and it's one of the best openings to an FF game out there.

The baby winked at you!?