...given that this thing has raked in more than a million signatures in about a week, it’s clear others feel much the same way about the show’s narrative arc as Dylan.

This is a charming video, but it also shows why the movie works so well. The style of the animation is fresh - both for its unusually sharp character movements and its emulation of dot-printed color fields - but that only gets you so far. The character detail in the body language gives the movie staying power beyond…

If they recast Affleck as Alfred I will buy a ticket today.

I don’t hate this choice. You have to respect a guy who jumps directly from Twilight to directors like Cronenberg and Denis. His career may well have pulled a good number of teen vampire fans into the weird, wild world of cinephilia.

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

Hey, thanks.

Against all odds, I am excited about this. Grant Morrison’s X-Men was one of the books that brought be back into superhero comics after the gimmicky 90s sent me running to Vertigo and the indies. But then House of M seemed to set the whole line back to square one in the most abrupt way conceivable.

I think that the real problem with this storyline is that this final season isn’t a story about Dany any more.

This game kept me hooked because it’s willing to be what it is without over-extending. The mechanics are a refinement rather than a bold reinvention. The story balances critique with down-the-center genre storytelling. And the pacing lets you savor the atmosphere a bit more than the previous entries, with their more…

I really, REALLY need everyone to stop with this. Having a different opinion on what constitutes good foreshadowing is not “not paying attention.”

I honestly feel that the people who hated Evangelion’s ending didn’t understand what the show was actually about.The tone shifted but it felt satisfying. The amended ending just made it feel like just another shounen mecha anime

It’s not exactly that anything in the episode feels like it couldn’t have happened, just that it got there way too fast.

The scale might be surprising, but once she accepted killing a single innocent, killing hundreds and then thousands was no big deal to her.

Well yeah but when you name a character after finished book characters you know they’re not going to turn out to be monsters.

A key theme in the books at least is that, while the politicians “play the game or throne,” it’s the small folk who suffer the most.

Lost had a thematic goal and a plot goal from episode 1. That plot goal evolved slightly in Season 4 (it changed for some characters and remained the same for others) and evolved slightly in Season 6 (same as Season 4). The finale wrapped up the thematic goal and all of the plot goals. The show had a real direction…

So...is this how Lost fans felt?

All those poor people who named their kids Daenerys or Khaleesi.

This episode was a mixed bag. It moved all the pieces in a basically sensible way, but it failed to show how that character arcs add up. Dany just makes a WWE-style heel turn, inflicting far more damage that her goals would seem to dictate. Is Missandei enough for what she does here? Is Rhaegal? Is anything?

And Battlestar Galactica fans, and X-Files fans, and Mass Effect fans, and Evangelion fans, and...