I’m totally feeling a “creator of worlds” thing for Flint — anyone else? The rocks coming together to crush Grill looked an awful lot like a small-scale planet reformation.

People go on and on about Hillary not campaigning enough in the right states but the fact remains that there is a deep seated hatred of her for so many people that no amount of anything could have dislodged.

Trump could be everything said about him and worse, but to these people at least he wasn’t Hillary Clinton. Or,…

No conversation about how each of these stories is the precursor to another Dark Mirror episode? That was the most enjoyable part for me. St. Juniper’s Hospital leading to the San Junipero episode for example, etc.

Oh my god, did NOBODY else notice the references to earlier Black Mirror episodes planted among the exhibits at the museum and during the stories??

My issue with season 4 is that they went to the “Person’s Consciousness Uploaded to...” well a few too many times. U.S.S. Callister, most of Black Museum, and even Hang the DJ (in a much more pleasant way) centered on people (or copies of people) trapped outside of their bodies, at the complete mercy of others,…

Also it seems like the current technology we have in the real world (phone GPS, car GPS, the fact that she talked to other people about where she was headed which isn’t even technology it would just be interviewing) would solve this crime in short enough order. The pet could be totally cut out of the plot and I still…

Yeah, it does feel like there’s something missing between “they were allowed to sit in the back” and “they were ultimately not allowed in”.

At last we have proof that Men’s Rights Activists are lower than Ilza Shlesinger on the AV Club’s hierarchy of outrage.

You keep bringing up the Wonder Woman screening without disclosing how it actually concluded. Two official complaints were made to Austin’s Equal Employment/Fair Housing Office, and Alamo Draft House admitted that its advertising violated Austin’s antidiscrimination laws. It settled one of the complaints in part by…

He might also be declared a saint, in which case his name will be St. George St. George.

... he probably hasn’t.

I thought the removal of Nanette’s face was a direct homage to the film version of “It’s a Good Life”.

I’m so glad you remembered that TNG episode too! It came to mind when he started using Jimmi Simpson’s character as a footstool and definitely when he started going Vader on him.

You know what came to my mind as well? That Futurama episode where the man-child alien/god had the cast of TOS captive.

Two parallels come to mind. The classic Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life” with the omnipotent child, and the Star Trek: TNG episode Hollow Pursuits where Barclay creates Holodeck fantasies involving his fellow crew.

It’s made 423 million dollars (and another 420 international). I think Disney is probably ok with that so far.

My main concern is Han’s lone gunslinger archetype kind of fundamentally eschews backstory. He won his ship gambling? Cool! That’s what kind of guy he is. I don’t actually need to see it. Nor do I need to see the gold dice Luke grabbed in LAst Jedi that he’ll invariably hang in the cockpit.

people having emotional responses to art? why, I never!

That’s not really fair.