I can't even fully articulate what's wrong with the premise. It's just- such an elaborate contrivance. Who does this? Who would ever do this? WHY would you ever do this? Why would you think this makes good television?

On the other hand, a series going "away from its roots" doesn't always spell disaster. The Mario games gradually became less about getting to the goal in time and more about exploring and finding secrets, building up to Mario 64 which is all about playing around in big open levels- they've done more traditional Mario…

I can see some of the arguments against, but this seems like basic workplace safety to me. You want to keep the chances of workers catching any STDs to an absolute minimum, use condoms. Maybe there are issues with the ballot measure as worded but the industry protests whenever there's any attempt to do this, usually…

If they could have afforded Kevin James I'm sure they would have hired him.

Got to see this live! I mostly agree with your assessment, it started really strong and I really like the potential for Babyface Rollins (God knows we were cheering him on in KC.) Bayley is also hella over. From my vantage point it seemed mostly like a clean finish, and generally speaking you do not want to have the…

I can see what he's saying in the abstract. Every writer's process is different and so it's impossible to say that you need anything at the outset (apart from, well, the ability to put words down somewhere.) There's nothing that's essential, just things that help writers get to the place where they can write.

Part of the problem, though, is that race as a metaphor doesn't really apply here. You're born black, white, etc.- augmentation is sometimes a choice, sometimes forced on you by circumstance, etc., but it's something that happens. There's also the fact that augmentation does in fact make you more powerful than the…

In the sense that they may not be from this planet or plane of existence, sure.

That one stray hair makes him RELATABLE, dammit! We focus-grouped this!

I went and saw Don't Breathe, which is a very well-made intense horror film that I probably will never care to see again. Jane Levy is working quite well as a scream queen, gotta say.

Somehow Flavors is less repulsive.

Just using real life conflict isn't enough, you have to actually have something to say about it. It's a question of doing your homework and actually exploring what your theme is and how it relates to reality. If I'm using "____ Lives Matter" as a slogan, with ____ being some invented minority, I'm naturally drawing…

Another good piece by him is "The Poetry Judge", which we actually had to read at the start of a creative writing poetry class in college just to familiarize ourselves with the worst excesses. He can be quite withering when he wants to.

But then nobody would have written any stories on it. IP equals free publicity.

Well that just ruins the entire plan to have him undermine ISIS from within.

Apparently during the post-show dark match AJ still stayed on the ropes. That's dedication right there.

If nuCountry is allowed, then it's "Don't Take The Girl."

At the time I made that comment the SD review wasn't up.

I know a few film posters on SA who are kind of obsessed with Bee Movie and how little sense it makes.

So did the WWE coverage get abruptly cancelled or what?