How the hell were they spending $110m on that film and couldn’t come up with a way to hide a helmet under an approximation of Beetz’ afro? It wasn’t exactly small.

On Æ, if you accept that it’s pronounced “ai” (I don’t know my “elven” well enough to dispute this, but I suspect they’re mistaken), then:

Yeah, but it’s tough to blame anyone for that.

Hell, just reprinting the original would be a start. An oversized hardcover would sit very nicely on the shelf next to my Busiek & Pérez Avengers omnibuses, but I’m not shelling out... (checks)... £400+ for a second hand copy.

The longer cut is 3 hours, it was edited to be a two-part TV miniseries. It’s very poorly paced and has a bunch of voiceover narration that’s basically Dune-for-dummies, but doing such a poor job (what is and isn’t explained is pretty random) that it probably leaves you more confused.

Not to give anyone else a free pass, but Valve is in a unique situation where the money’s rolling in through Steam without them releasing anything. Valve’s management are no better at scheduling (they might even be worse), they just don’t have the time pressure everyone else is struggling with, because they’re not…

Bong Joon-ho’s whole filmography is impressive, but, yeah, Memories of Murder is particularly incredible and still my favourite.

Regardless of how you feel about the film, the list of recent things that happened to Star Wars and were better than The Last Jedi is surprisingly extensive. It’s all subjective of course (and I’m not suggesting any of the following are perfect — many of them I like far less than the zeitgeist), but in no particular…

Oh god yes. Through no fault of his own, I found Jon Stewart’s Daily Show almost unwatchable. And while it took a few attempts for them to get used to not pausing for incessant whooping at anything resembling a joke, watching Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers’ monologues under lockdown is actually a big improvement.

Spec Ops: The Line is probably the best and most interesting single-player campaign in the genre. It’s a pity they gave it one of the most generic titles in history and that it looks and plays pretty much the same as every other military shooter, because it deserves all the attention.

It struck me that this particular “friend” probably wanted to be more than friends and thought telling her that no other guy would give her the time of day would make him look like the only option.

The pandemic might be over (or at least under control) by then, but you have to factor in reduced work product in the meantime. Even assuming everything was set up so that the entire staff of these upcoming games already had the ability to work from home, there are inevitably going to be a ton of issues when suddenly e…

We also know that, as of very recently, they hadn’t figured out how to make a human mind last more than a handful of days in a physical host. And it’s been stated (off-screen) that the William host we saw at the end of last season is in the “far future”.

Yeah, the only one that felt anime to me was Geralt with his sword at Renfri’s throat — I can almost see the animation on that one (y’know, the bulging eye thing they often do to indicate intense emotion).

The struggle would be remarked upon because pretending to be someone you’re not is drama. They seem to be playing with the idea of whoever it is “going native”, and while that would surely be more effective if we knew the character well in the first place, many undercover stories have successfully opened with the…

There’s not too many options with Teddy, Bernard, Stubbs, and Maeve seemingly off the table — I mean, I guess there’s no technical reason why hosts couldn’t be replicated, but they’ve wisely stayed away from addressing that complication so far.

But she had a replacement Martin on hand, so you have to assume the encryption was intentionally crackable.

Already been done. Dead Set had the UK version of Big Brother become the last refuge from a zombie apocalypse. It was written by Charlie Brooker of Black Mirror fame.

I found it pretty straightforward on my (also just finished) second viewing. It almost felt like we were overcomplicating it as an audience the first time around, because our expectations had been set based on season 1. I don’t think it was necessarily the right choice to structure it the way they did, but in truth…

Well sure, but I was really just disputing your suggestion that inventing this implies that they thought the Holocaust wasn’t bad enough already. It’s visual storytelling shorthand that may or may not have been misconceived and/or poorly executed, but I’m unconvinced that it’s trying to outdo the reality of the…