Luz Long was more than kind to Owens. In defiance of other Nazi athletes routinely ignoring or belittling their non-Aryan competitors, Long hugged Owens after Owens beat his mark to win Gold, locked arms with Owens to walk him to the locker room, and held his shoulder congratulating him in front of the international…

As a 40-something white guy, can I look down with disgust on said 20 something white guys? Maybe make a snide Gen-X comment that shows my ennui and negativity?

Spending the months leading up to Joker’s release anticipating how bad it will be and then putting it on the worst of the year list for not living down to your expectations is pretty much Peak 2019 AV Club.

It was an episode with many lovely scenes but, as I feared when he showed up, Dr. Manhattan is almost impossible to write. The logic becomes completely garbled and it’s hard for me to enjoy. Alan Moore just *barely* managed it with the tachyons: making his vision “muddy” and then having him simply not care enough to…

I would like to put in my suggestion for Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance on this list. It’s a technical marvel, but that was almost a given. It also tells an engaging story with plenty fully realized characters. They’re not all winners, but most of actor/puppeteer pairings were excellent. I mean, I get the sense after…

Also, the dragon hotboxing zoo animals is the funniest small thing I have seen in a while.

I find that line of reasoning pretty unpersuasive.

The sheer degree of Watchman knob-polishing on avclub is unreal, given how uninspired and hacky it all really is.

The hot air balloon was not necessarily ahistorical. While manned balloon flight would not come for a very long time after, the Chinese had hot air balloons similar, but smaller, to the one we saw before 300CE. A few centuries later, along the silk trail, seeing a larger version doesn’t exactly beggar the imagination.

The Tralfamadorians of Slaughter-House Five seem like the closest to Dr. Manhattan and somehow I can’t believe I missed that for the last 25 years. I have never read Dune, but it does pre-date Slaughter-House Five by a few years. I wonder if there was an idea of time as being frozen and unchangeable going in the…

I’be said this before but the scene in Season Two of The Tick where Superian does a riff on the “Can You Read My Mind?” soliloquy from the 1971 Superman movie as he abducts his critic is far more disturbing than anything The Boys did in its First Season.

It’s a classic plot structure for a reason, it freakin’ works. It’s silly to expect every show to reinvent the wheel with every plotline and episode. Yeah, it’s an A-Team plot in the Star Wars universe, but that's freakin’ awesome.

What "more" do you expect? Trade federations? Midichlorians? B,c and d story threads that slow everything down?

I’m the exact opposite, Mando + Baby Yoda is a well that I don’t think can ever run dry. I’m actually stressed that the finale sets something up for the movie involving Teen Yoda, and that it’s going to foreclose a second season of the adventures of Mando & Baby Yoda. They will be tugging Baby Yoda away from me like…

I don’t think Jurassic World had any scenes that conveyed the menace of dinosaurs as convincingly as the red eyed AT-ST stomping towards us from behind the tree line. Maybe they should have let her direct that movie.

I gather that “One for the Ladies” is supposed to evoke “goop,” but it’s worth noting that this episode seems to pass the Bechdel Test, too.

“ I didn’t want this entire season to be Mando juggling a baby while fighting off baddies and marauders.”

I’m very please with them making the AT-ST seem like a proper and visceral threat. For all its war machines Star Wars often has issues making them feel like they’re just another obstacle and not a real and present threat. This episode definitely works better at that than a lot of things have. 

Ike dumping out the chip bag and putting it over his head in the grocery store when Sheila was loudly talking about her fecal transplant was worth the price of admission.

The oversaturation of Frozen works for people who really like it and want more of it. I thought it was good, but I dunno, I’m just tired of it. I went to Disney World for the first time this summer and “Let It Go” was part of the Frozen Epcot ride, one of the Magic Kingdom live shows, and it was sung not once, but…