I vacillate wildly on him, but he was kinda exhausting in S2BY for me. I, however, love LaKeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson so it killed me to not love the movie.

You’re probably not wrong about them cannibalizing each other, but I feel like they’re different enough they shouldn’t be. I vastly prefered BLINDSPOTTING myself. I wanted to love S2BY, but it just never congealed into anything but a smattering of neat ideas executed to varying degrees. Also I’m sick of Arnie Hammer.

I’m going to stump for BLINDSPOTTING. It’s a pretty great film, with a final, climactic scene that is utterly devastating in its power and surprise and has to be one of the best scenes of the year for me.

There’s a specific episode where he quizzes him. Apparently Crawford’s memory is a well-known quirk/ability, so they do a few rounds of random games. I was left impressed. Crawford is also a pretty amiable guy, so he’s a great interview.

I can’t speak on this baseball player, but if you listen to Jamal Crawford (NBA vet of 15 years or so) on the Full 48 podcast, Howard Beck will ask him about any random regular season game from his career and he can recall his entire box score stats off the top of his head. It’s pretty wild. I’m not sure that all…

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I’m a big fan of Steal the Stars and Life.After/The Message. The team behind those 3 are great. These are all full audio dramas.

Hard agree.

That’s cool, but they’re a large part of the podcasting medium (even Marvel got in on them), so to completely exclude them is confusing to me.

Even including something as high profile as the Wolverine podcast would’ve been good (even though I only thought it was average).

I need to relisten to the first season. It was my favorite fiction podcast, but upon trying S2, I realized I didn’t remember a damn thing.

It is killing me that nobody is talking about fiction podcasts. They are a thing. They are wonderful. Why are they never mentioned? Also Actual Plays are pretty big in the podcast world, as well. We really need to diversify podcast coverage to be more than non-fiction.

It had some amazing individual episodes and moments for me. I really thought the trip inside the memories and minds of everyone was particularly great. But it didn’t add up to as much, to say nothing of that terrible final episode, IMO. I thought S1 was genius, S2 just kinda did the Mr. Robot and disappeared up its…

Agreed. It took me a few episodes to get onboard with the animation style (it looks great in action, stuttery in dialogue), but just when it hit its groove it ended. (I also could’ve done without Sokka being in the show. Either have the character type or bring back the voice actor, but don’t do both). 

Oh, totally agree. I’ve been reading the novels since they came out and as they come out, and I’m maybe of the opinion that the TV show is better. They do a lot to streamline things and bring in character stuff way earlier that really benefits the narrative.

Yea that SU wedding was something else. What a beautiful episode.

Right? Cartoons have really grown to be so inclusive, diverse, and feature phenomenal storytelling. Of course there have always been animated shows that did this, but it just seems to be more common all the time. It’s wonderful. 

Pretty sad there is no mention of THE EXPANSE. Best sci-fi show on TV, although this season had one plotline that didn’t really work (looking at you Clarissa Mao), it was still brilliant TV. I’d also throw a bone at a lot of animated series (STEVEN UNIVERSE, ADVENTURE TIME, SHE-RA, VOLTRON, HILDA, STAR VS. THE FORCES…

This year I’ve loved reading DESCENDER as it’s come to its natural end and then was very excited about the jump to a new story. That watercolor artwork is just a joy to behold and the writing has been great. Can’t wait.

Absolutely agree. I was vilified by friends for saying I enjoyed being Ryder more than Shepard, just personality-wise. Word of advice: Make sure you do the memory trigger missions. I hate those collectathon missions, but it actually really adds some depth and texture to the game you’ll otherwise miss (not sure how…