I feel bad about saying this, but the Mummy ride > the King Kong ride.

Emergo or GTFO.

And she was also really good when Pearl had that meltdown last week. Max is pretentious, sure, but she's also able to empathize with other human beings.

The Vikings are to football what Wisconsin is to politics: Even in a dirty, dirty game, they manage to be exceptionally awful.

Does Sherlock have loftier ambitions, though? It's much flashier, but Elementary is more substantial. That's not even necessary consequence of their formats—procedurals aren't often meaty. But Sherlock almost seems like it's willfully avoiding giving its characters any depth, and its last season was terribly plotted.…

Wasn't Raja a professional makeup artist, though? So she's got Miss Fame coming and going.

I suspect that this might've also been the case if had been an original property rather than an Alien movie. It would've just joined the pile of meh science fiction films without much gnashing of teeth.

I think "any bad blockbuster" is a good summation. Jesse's right that
Prometheus is better than its reputation, but that's because its reputation is THE WORST THING EVAR. It's bad, but not singularly bad.

I want somebody to go full-on fungus. Mossy green dress with mushrooms for tits or something. Fuck Michelle's opinions.

I graduated high school like 6 years ago and I read both those books for class, plus Animal Farm in junior high. But I did go to a private school, so…maybe that makes a difference?

My local library made the baffling decision to split pretty much all those authors' stuff between YA and SF/F, apparently arbitrarily. As a young teen too cool to use the OPAC, I couldn't figure out why the third Earthsea book was never on the shelf. It turns out that it was on the SF/F shelf, while the rest of the…

I've read both Twilight and The Fault in Our Stars, and if I was forced to read one again, it'd be Twilight. They're both shittily written, but Twilight is shitty like bad romance fiction is shitty, and The Fault in Our Stars is shitty like the douchiest English majors are shitty. I just prefer the former, I guess.

Fhqwhgads?

Am I misremembering that there was a lot of the same sort of debate over Maul's saber? I can't tell if everyone forgot how stupid they thought it was when Phantom Menace came out, or if I just thought it was dumb and am projecting onto the world at large.

Are you thinking of Carrie Underwood? Clarkson was never identified as a country artist. Wikipedia says she didn't even do any country songs when she was on Idol, and I thought that was a requirement.

That MAX miniseries Greg Pak did a few years ago was explicit about ol' buckethead's Jewishness, and Claremont pretty clearly intended it, though he never said it outright. The (alleged) Doylist reason it was changed is because someone at Marvel in the early 90s thought it was racist to have a Jewish supervillain.…

Upvoted because fuck AXIS.

It can be two things!

"OMG, did they really do something as shitty as Onslaught/Heroes Reborn?!" is probably not the reaction they were going for, though. If they do like 5 shitty events a year (Hi, AXIS!) then they all sort of blend together and no one remembers them being as individually shitty.

It was the '80s, though, so that sort of thing happened all the time.