Yes, but only because John Connor is a secondary character in these stories so how good the actor playing him has never been the point. Dekker's the only one of the three who got an interesting version of the character to play, and he did a good job with it.

I liked Barb and I think the show's failure to grasp how the audience would respond to her ending - not just that she dies, but that the people who claim to care about her and who should be worried about her basically forget she exists - was an early sign of a certain hollowness at its core. But the nomination for…

It's been getting a lot of critical attention, particularly after episode 8. And the two week break might have given people time to catch up.

Nope. You're talking about Okorafor's tweet. She's referring to the tweet from Vice, which doesn't mention her name, and crops it out of the book cover even when you expand the image:

"Objective" doesn't mean giving the same credence to both sides. In fact it means the exact opposite. There is an objective truth in this situation, and that is that the US elected a corrupt, idiotic man-child who is hopelessly unfit for the presidency and largely uninterested in actually doing it, and who almost…

If a silly CW show like No Tomorrow can figure out the right answer to that question, what excuse does a supposedly dramatic show have?

Weekend watching report:

It's not new, though. Whenever Republicans try to get rid of something that helps people and even saves their lives - workplace protections, environmental regulations, school funding - it's always under the guise of "freedom". I don't know what it is about the American mentality that makes this a plausible argument,…

Yeah, I had issues with how the Daxam storyline played out in its various tendrils, but Rhea was absolutely not one of them. I particularly liked her bond with Lena.

I was concerned she was going to be Jeremiah Danvers's new love interest. He's a sufficiently lousy father that you can totally imagine him turning up, girlfriend in tow, and expecting Kara and Alex to call her "mom".

Not to run down Ahmad, who I'm sure is very good at her job, but the formulation of "she must be tough! She's never lost a terrorism case!" had me scratching my head a few days ago when it kept popping up. Is it actually difficult to lose a terrorism case in the US? Doesn't the Patriot act give the government wide…

Why is it that the people who scream loudest about "protecting Western values" also seem to be the ones who respect those values - democracy, the rule of law, civil rights, equality - the least?

Part of the issue is that the show leaves out all these complications in an attempt to tell a very romantic story. Which is clearly intentional, but again doesn't really suit the tone of this show, which has always been about digging past the dramatic surface of familiar stories and finding the mundane, funny, but…

Watched the back half of the second season of Master of None last night. The first three episodes are brilliant, each in their own way - I don't know what I love better, the random stories in "New York , I Love You", Brian's player dad who loves his girlfriends' cooking and dog in "Door #3", or every single moment…

You're talking about two incurious, moronic psychopaths who haven't heard the word "no" nearly enough in their lives. They'd either hate each other for taking up too much oxygen, or talk past each other without ever noticing the other is in the room.

One of the things that's really striking about his comments is how completely he elides the fact that the victims of Auschwitz were killed by the government. They weren't victims of terrorism, but of institutionalized and even legalized oppression and genocide. It's amazing how people can stand right there and not…

Considering that most US embassies hold receptions on the 4th of July, you could certainly argue that working on the holiday is a requirement for most career diplomats, and that Haley has nothing to complain about.

Eh, I'm not inclined to blame Major's screw-ups on the world. He makes his own decisions, just like everyone else around him, and yet he's the guy who manages to be the most destructive.

With the TV season over and several other commitments I had finally put to bed, I'm starting to catch up on all the Netflix shows I planned to watch this spring. First up: Master of None. I had planned to watch one or two episodes last night, and ended up watching half a season. It's just so sweet and well done. I…

One of the things I like about Evelyn is that she's an objectively awful person whose actions are, if not entirely sympathetic, then at least understandable from her point of view - while at the same time being completely inexcusable. I'd like more female characters like that - not misunderstood villains who just…