Isn’t that like saying steampunk should start using solar panels? It just wouldn’t be steampunk anymore, it’d be something else. Which is fine, but we’d probably use a different term to refer to it.

I have never yelled at a trailer like this.

The criticism here seems warranted, and I hope Kotaku can figure out whether alt-right recruitment is taking place at a scale that justifies the NPR headline.

I’m watching it on my own pace. It’s ok. Not scary, just a little boring.

I caught on to what was going on, and it IS very impressive. But I felt like it didn’t really add anything.

It’s Friday, it’s been a long week, and I had to do a double take because I read that as “Seed Beaver”.

The sequel to Blade Runner was made over 35 years after the original, and it was crap.

(the same way J. K. Rowling never admitted ripping off Earthsea to create Harry Potter).

I mean, he’s told some great stories in the past, but Avatar was not one of them

The real question: does she remember the plot of Domino? Does anyone? Was that movie even real?

TROLLS: “Feed me.”

I love this kind of io9 post, halfway between a service piece and an eccentric deep-dive. And I will have to put this novel on the teetering pile.

I don’t know. Deadpool 2 had its moments, but his sounds like some bullshit. The ratings system deserves our mockery, but perhaps not in the form of a PG-13 movie that panders to our awareness of the ratings system.

Trevor and Alucard cussing each other out was another scene that only an authentic surly Brit could have gotten right. I hesitate to badmouth my countrymen, but an American would have overdone it.

Who else would have a secular, anti-clerical Dracula brooding over the fact that his mystical vampire generals might botch the war on humanity because they underestimate our capacity for moral self-determination?

The Viking line cracked me up. One of many Warren Ellis moments in the dialogue.

I’m looking forward to this. Meanwhile, can a show written by Warren Ellis be “surprisingly” slow-burning? His sense of pace seems to get more stately by the year, although in a non-boring slow-is-the-new-fast kinda way.

From the sounds of it, McCloud’s story is very dramatic and realistic, but just so happens to have a supernatural starting off point.

How strongly a symbol is held on an individual basis correlates directly with how widespread the symbol is held.

If they are symbols that are generally held, then they are held strongly. If they are held lightly, then they are applicable only to the viewers as individuals, not as a general audience, and they are certainly not definitively written as symbols with authorial intent.