Fallen Empires has a lot of good ideas, and executes them all terribly. Things like giving each color a tribe of creatures, and giving the tribes mechanical themes like making lots of tokens or sacrificing things for effects were great ideas. On the other hand, implementing them with a bunch of underpowered effects…

One of the masters edition sets (sets that were trying to get all the
really old cards onto magic online) was basically legends and portal 3
kingdoms mashed together, and basically all of the good top end
creatures were the bad gold legends like Riven Turnbull. Drafting it was surprisingly fun.

You are forgetting about Licids!

I love Ray McKinnon! His dialogue is beautifully sparse, and is lyrical and art-y without being pretentious or annoying (mostly).

Apparently at some point in development, the Modern Family documentary was being made by an guy who had lived with them as an exchange student and was making the documentary because he had a crush on Claire (and Mitchell had a crush on him), which sounds like something that would have been gloriously terrible.

I can't imagine that Forrest being suspected of arson, and then basically committing arson won't have some terrible long term consequences for him.

The nightly show pretty much is The Daily Show part 2 now isn't it? The first act is headlines, the second act is Larry interviewing a correspondent in front of a green screen or a field piece and the third act is the panel (as opposed to the interview). The panel still has problems (it seems like they've…

What was applying to college like for doctor doom? Was his admissions essay about his desire to go to college in order to use science and magic to talk to the dead or did he mostly talk about how the devil murdering his mother inspired his love of science? Which of the magic romani who raised him wrote his recs? Did…

I hope marvel starts making movies about the fantastic four when the team was like Ant Man and Medusa or something just to fuck with fox.

Why do people still call it Evil Corp in the scenes that aren't from Elliot's perspective (his friend and her boyfriend, evil german Elliot)?

Between Showalter as Reagan and Will Ferrell as J Edgar Hoover, this has been a great summer for terrible impressions.

Ellie Kemper? Academy Award nominee Steve Carell?

The evil camp across the lake being cartoonishly WASP-y is so perfect.

It's going to be pretty tough for Shane Black to find an excuse to set every episode of a TV show during Christmas.

For every good FNM, it feels like there are 5 that are either badly run, in a terrible venue or full of obnoxious regulars. The community as a whole feels like it's gotten a lot better than it was in the late 90s/early 2000s (it has also gotten significantly older, which is probably one of the biggest reasons its…

Have you listened to Serial, the original podcast?

Spoilers (I guess)

Watching the Your Month of Zen stream reminded me just how many "look, we found this weird, mildly crazy guy, now we are going to shit on him for collecting cans or something for five minutes" field pieces the show used to have. I think it was partially a result of not really having the technology to put together two…

I hope the Inhumans movie opens with like a star wars style text crawl explaining the incomprehensible inhuman royal family backstory and then is just a Kamala Khan movie that has nothing to do with any inhuman stuff.

The show dragged it out for soooooo long too. Like I could have seen the it being a reveal that surprised people in the first 2 or 3 episodes who hadn't yet figured out why Dexter's voiceover kept explaining how serial killers talk to jokes, or why there were all these random scenes of Colin Hanks and Eddie Jimmy…