Dear io9,

Plus:

I know, it’s:

“Oh, hey, now that we can raise people from the dead, let’s get some of our beloved friends back... also, hey, while we’re at it, let’s also get some of the people who killed those beloved friends back? Wouldn’t that be nice? Yeah, that would be nice.”

...and the innocent people at the U.N. bombing (delegates, secretaries, janitors, people on the street)? The psychiatrist? 

Hell, Police officers shoot other police officers with sometimes stray, sometimes not-so-stray bullets and don’t wind up in jail. 

And in non-X news, Arrow Guy first showed up as a baddie, just like the Punisher, Venom, Vision, etc., etc., etc.

I see what you did there.

Claudia Doumit seems like she’s gonna kill it as next season’s Big Bad, but I’m particularly excited because—being real here—those eyebrows.... that... nose.... she has my heart.

Oh. Sorry I gave the wrong impression here. Yes, I’ve read it and know the whole deal—I’m just surprised by how much they’re sticking to that and, particularly, how much they’d show in a mass-release preview. 

I’m a little surprised, however, that the teaser doesn’t lean into the fact the show is going to be full-on R-rated, much more like The Boys or The Walking Dead than most other animated superhero shows. There is some blood there and Kirkman did confirm that the show will not hold back.

Yes! True! But you know what—and I bet you agree—that’s okay! Some texts offer one thing, some another. If you’re opening up Red Planet looking for poetry, you need to readjust. If you’re opening up Midnight’s Children to find cool space-travel shit, again, you’re doing it wrong.

Also, if you remove “he/she thought”…

Look, Dune really, super, actually can be dry, dense, and dead to one person and a masterpiece to another. It’s always been divisive and FH’s prose really can be tedious at times even if the ideas are fantastic. Smart people think this!

I loved Dune, but I wouldn’t expect everyone else to, and I certainly wouldn’t…

Frankly, I think all I us should all take a moment out and realize that we could have easily predicted this. Anyone—anyone—who reads io9 on a semi-regular basis could have pitched this to Warner Bros. YEARS ago and be currently enjoying quarantine from inside a Malibu safehouse of moderate size with a heated pool.…

Not that I care about a reboot of a franchise I didn’t care about in the first place, but the Kaya Scodelario news reminds me to remind you all that Crawl — despite being wantonly absurd — is damn good and damn good fun and she’s a part of the reason why. She deserves good things and more franchise money.

Nope - Jai is the canary in the coal mine: If he’s in something, then there’s a better than 90% chance it’s bad no matter how much money the studio has pumped into it, who the director is, or whether it’s a part of an otherwise interesting franchise. It’s not that he’s bad himself, it’s that badness precedes and…

And he will be deeply aggrieved if you have any questions or comments.

Look, RZ has an amazing back catalog of work. But his work lately—with again the exception of Flight which was a character portrait punctuated by a great action sequence (good work on that!)—has been weak and creaky. It’s not a knock on his technical talents, but these are just bad movies. 

Here’s Zemeckis’ heavily CGI-ed record since 2000:

The Polar Express
Beowulf
A Christmas Carol
Flight
The Walk
Allied
Welcome to Marwen

It’s all schlock with the possible exception of Flight. Not excited.

Welsh is pretty awesome to listen to, though!

Yes, as an editor or advisor you should get your writers behind the idea that “killing” is the legally/journalistically appropriate wordage within the context of straight, just-the-facts reports on the situation. HOW you get your writers behind that is a different story and, from what it sounds like, where this…