They have their uses. I mean, only one of you actually needs to make it to the safe room to advance. Everyone else can just chill in a closet for a while.

Seriously, I've said this a bunch, but I thought they were going the "child soldier" direction with Carl a few seasons back, and I was really bummed to learn it was just bad writing. Either that, or there was turnover, and that thread was forgotten.

Or maybe fashion some rudimentary armor, which would make you almost completely impervious to zombies, and carry some shields and medium length stabby tools. Get twenty or thirty able-bodied adults together in that condition and you could probably take out a couple hundred zombies without too much danger or…

Amen. The Walking Dead does kill a lot of black characters, and has now killed at least one gay character. This is possible because The Walking Dead features way more black characters than most major American dramas (or comedies, or any other genre) and a non-trivial number of gay characters (by my count there are…

You handwave the gunpowder more convincingly than a lot of stuff in the show. Sulfur, charcoal and saltpeter, ground and mixed. Sure, that stuff hasn't been used in guns since like the Spanish American War, but it would maybe work if you spent some time figuring out which guns could take it with doable modifications…

I agree on the speech, but I think it was the writing. She had some good scenes earlier in the season, so I don't think you can chalk it up to talent or screen presence. She just had a thankless role to fill in this episode: the idiot who dies.

I don't see how you square that with the character of the Green Arrow in TDKR, who is clearly both an admirable and heroic figure and a leftist. You can page through that book and pick out other implicit moral judgments that line him up with what you might call a law and order Democrat—which was not an uncommon…

Oh, that's even. Uh. Different. God Zack Snyder is a talentless buffoon.

He's always been libertarian, and as that cohort has drifted towards Ayn Rand and away from Emma Goldman (or pick your left-libertarian anarchist of choice), they've all picked up the baggage associated with the right wing of American politics. It really is a shame.

So Batman is Lex Luthor. In a movie that also has Lex Luthor in it, filling the exact same role.

Again for the unfamiliar, Morgenthau was the Manhattan DA (New York County—there is no "New York City DA") from 1974 to 2009, and prior to that had been the U.S. Attorney (basically the federal DA) for the Southern District of New York since 1962, with a few years off here and there, at which time he was already in…

Most of Mr. Peanutbutter's dialogue in Bojack Horseman is actually just transcripts of Jimmy Fallon out of context. That's why the character sometimes seems not to notice how mean Bojack is being to him, or other obvious things in the scene. Also because Fallon has the brain of a moderately above-average golden…

Agree to disagree, I guess. The mod-approved commenters seem no smarter than the grey commenters, and as far as I can tell the system does nothing to prevent really obvious and stupid trolls from being seen and dominating conversations and threads. It's just a knee-jerk embrace of censorship for censorship's sake. …

It was an interesting illustration of Frank's line drawing. In some earlier iterations of the Punisher, he would literally kill anyone for breaking the law. Like, litterers and jaywalkers. By contrast, some versions are almost eye-for-an-eye: no murder except for murder or being Italian (I kid, I kid). This Frank…

I agree with the grade. I watched this episode last week and, even with the review as a refresher, I can remember like three or four things from it. The Punisher scene is important, though kind of weirdly handled. The main plot takeaways are the cliffhanger and Reyes using Grotto as bait (which is dumb). The scene…

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I actually just checked Jalopnik for the first time in a long time to see what they had to say about the new Navigator concept. I was reminded of a couple things. First, their reactions to cars are so inconsistent they could be used as the world's first truly random number generator, and this isn't just because I…

I got actual anxiety watching these guys be completely unprepared for a trial happening literally the next day. You can't prep for a trial in 24 hours—and I mean that literally. It takes more than 24 hours (or 72 billable hours, spread across three persons) to prepare for even a pretty small trial, let alone a…

Insurers generally won't cover things in the control of the insured, and this was ruled to be intentional misconduct. Even if the insurance were available, it'd be a strange publication that would invest in it, given the strength of the first amendment.

Come on now, all modern commenting systems are horrible. Disqus has made the (conscious?) design decision to allow you to "see context" for posts, but not see posts that follow that context, even though you can see all other posts in the thread.