Yeah… they handled it pretty well, but it was a pretty big about face. Ted and Robin were the same way in HIMYM…. they spent so much time trying to desexualize the friendship that it felt like a waste of time when they finally got together.

It was the same with HIMYM too. The show's creative team really ran out of steam, and it showed.

The only issue I had with Eliliot is that she ended up with JD, when her character's arc had really left him behind, and their chemistry was pretty weak. I would have much preferred an ending where she and JD are friends and colleagues.

This movie looks like such a weird combination of Evangelion's action style and a giant weird looking rubber monster.

The Islamaphobia didn't stand out as much for me, not having heard about his blog posts about that stuff till much later. He definitely seemed to throw radical Islamist villains and super heroic Jewish characters a lot in various books, but they always seemed like small bits in most stories so I usually shrugged it…

You laugh, but that's kind of the ending to the book….

Basically, The Terror is a good ending point for the works of Dan Simmons, but a lot of his previous stuff is quite good. Hyperion is a great series, and Carrion Comfort, Children of Night, and some of his other stand alone books were pretty good. But the 2000s weren't a really great decade for him.

To be fair, the guy that did the head exploding was himself a Palestinian Muslim.

I took it that way at first too… but the constant hammering of it started to get on my nerves. After a while past that, it just started to seem like some brutal nihilism for guys who just can't be bothered to car about anything but themselves, and call everyone else an asshole.

The point was "we like using this word, we're not going to stop, please stop trying to make us feel bad."

I have to applaud South Park, for all the other things I don't like about them, they are probably the only show that has contributed so much to the decline of a semi-major religion.

And the Prius episode, where being an environmentalist was just 'gay', and makes you like smelling your own farts.

So, if it's following the Sons of Anarchy model, season 3 will go to Ireland for some inexplicable reason?

Hollywood clearly read all those posts people made to the effect of "I could literally watch Actor X do anything" or "I wish I could just relax and watch Actor X have a good time"

Didn't one of them come out? I wonder if she's willing to make an exception for the Guyver.

I hope that the Harleys hold out for Nicholson or Ledger Joker.

The deluxe version comes with a cocktail mixer.

I enjoyed Home Improvement as a kid, but I think today it resembles those shows on the Disney Channel like Jesse or Good Luck Charlie in it's relentless cheer and formula. You don't need to binge watch it because every episode is the same… and even more, we've just moved on culturally.

It's tough to say whether Carl Sagan would have annoyed people if he was using today's media too. We just had less of science popularizers in the 80s and 90s, and that may have been for the best.

He got into some feuds with Richard Dawkins a few years ago, I'm sure that pissed of a certain set of grumpy internet atheists. I'm honestly a little annoyed that he's generally anti-religious but doesn't want to be called an atheist for some random reason or another.