I applaud the show finally shining a spotlight on its Canadianness by making the fact that at least two of the actors are bilingual in French a plot point.

Honestly, the fact that AI Sarah may not be identical to original Sarah is kind of meaningless, since Three doesn't remember the real Sarah except for the last day of her life. Which is honestly another argument against them getting together. When she was alive I bought his feeling a connection to her because there…

I spent the weekend catching up on the new season of Dark Matter, which continues to better than it has any business being. As in S2, there's a lot of upheaval in the early parts of the season: Four is a full-on villain, Six has moved on, and Three is a robosexual. But overall it's still a show with a surprisingly…

I've seen people say that the end result of passing this bill would be a potential Democratic wave in 2018. I haven't seen anyone say that therefore, passing this bill would be OK.

I give the show some credit for introducing a survivor from the town in S5 and having him and Felicity hash it out. But yeah, that is still incredibly weak sauce compared to the enormity of what happened.

Good stuff this week:

This was my reaction too, and agreed on the problems with validating anti-public health, anti-vaccination thinking with this kind of storytelling. I'm also not sure how a whole city full of zombies sustains itself. Taking brains from the corpses of people who die natural deaths is only workable on a very small scale.

The thing that gets me is that if you put Chris Lowell in any other room, he's the funny, sexy, surprisingly ripped guy. But stand him next to Logan and all of a sudden he's the boring, safe choice.

On his website and on twitter, John Scalzi was talking about something that rarely comes up in these conversations: most of the people who are going to get a tax break don't need it. Even leaving aside that the average saving per family will be something like $500, most people who do well enough to be taxed in the…

Exactly. I can't believe this was even brought up for discussion. Why in god's name should Democrats consider ousting an extremely effective leader - the person who engineered their main legislative victory in the Trump presidency so far, no less - just because Republicans want her out? I'm used to seeing people on…

Refrigeration was nonexistent until about a hundred years ago. That's why we invented all the many methods we know to preserve meat. Keeping an animal alive while you chop bits off of them is not one of those methods.

Well, you'd have to do it surgically, which is already going to a lot of trouble when you could have just killed the person and then cut them out. And then, of course, your victim is dying anyway, and once again probably spoiling their meat. Not to mention the risk of infection.

Starvation has been a fact of human existence for most of history. That's why we've developed so many methods to preserve meat, or make it palatable when it's started to go off. The idea that there was significant periods where post people had so much food that they didn't have to bother keeping it, before the 20th…

Ah, comics.

Didn't Hannibal fall into this trap as well? There's at least one victim that Hannibal keeps alive while chopping off his limbs, even feeding him to himself at one point. Which makes even less sense for a gourmand like Hannibal. Any serious meat-eater knows that without good butchery, no amount of preparation will…

That part isn't true, though. What bankrupted Gawker was that the award ruled against them was so steep, and that the judge refused to allow them to post a bond pending appeal. There's absolutely no question that the award was unreasonable high and would have been knocked down on appeal, but Gawker wasn't able to…

Yeah, you can feel that Thiel is a loathsome creep whose growing influence should be very scary to anyone who cares about democracy, and even that the overall effect of the verdict has been a negative one, without supporting Gawker or seeing them as anything but what they were. Gawker's entire business model was…

The trope of "keep a victim alive as you chop off their limbs one by one for your cannibalistic delectation" keeps turning up (American Horror Story did it last season), and it really pisses me off from a butchery angle. Do we keep cows or sheep alive as we chop them up for food? No, because adrenalin spoils the…

He's not an idiot - or, at least, he's not saying these things because he's an idiot. He's saying them because he's bought and paid for.

There's been a pretty obvious ceiling for superhero show ratings on broadcast TV. I suppose it wouldn't be surprising if the streaming shows experienced the same effect.