One weird realization that I had after episode 1 is that the Billy Zane adaptation probably killed off the proper opening to the show, which is part of the reason why the first three episodes don’t work as well as they should (along with some strange writing decisions.)

It’s been a while since I read New Spring but I think you’re probably right on the opening scene reflecting the Vileness.

I agree.

The best films are driven by the characters

I’m about 1 1/2 episodes behind here since I’m watching this only when I a. have got nothing else to watch and b. don’t mind turning my brain and suspension of disbelief off, but I’ll take it a bit further.

There’s a full breakdown of the trailer by the showrunner here.

Matt Colville mentioned he got this in the theater when seeing Dune as a 13 year old and wished he’d kept it - Ebay listings for it were like $110 yesterday!

I’m still not visiting theaters in my region of the world, but watched it at home and - so far - it’s by far the best of the three adaptations visually. It’s one of the tiny handful of ‘splosion and ‘everyone-is-a-kick-ass martial artist/swordfighter’ movies of the last 20 years that effectively fits the VFX and…

Yay mutiny!

Well, the kids have to learn about Tek War sooner or later...

I watched the first two episodes of Foundation last night and unfortunately Rob Bricken’s scathing reviews over on io9 are closer to the mark than Wanserski’s.

You’d almost assume that everyone mourned [MLK’s] loss

If you think back through the various guest stars on SG-1, there really were very few who completely dominated their episodes. That’s exactly what he did in 200.

This decisive victory for The Crown speaks (to) its great fourth season...

Yeah, there were a lot of people just shocked at how well Rita Wilson did her Naughty by Nature bit.

Yep. On the one hand I sympathize with Lewinsky given she went through an unbalanced amount of sheer hell afterwards and am glad she’s finally getting a chance to (mis)represent her perspective, but on the other as you mention there’s a substantial amount of evidence she went into the internship with the direct intent…

The fact that he has somehow outlived Macdonald and is tweeting about is sort of the absurdity that the latter probably would have appreciated.  Those were great skits.

Got forced into this for a month by the fine people at one division of the forever bankrupt car rental company. Few subtleties.

‘Manager’s special’ for me - and they pushed really hard on a (non-discounted) upgrade, which would have more than doubled the price of the rental.

When forced into one of these as a rental, after about 5 minutes of searching to see if there was some option I’d missed, I finally gave up and googled ‘How to open hatch Ecosport’ and felt far better that I wasn’t the only idiot out there.