“In the end, the saucers were defeated not by guns or bombs, but that most humble of God’s creatures, the Tyrannosaurus Rex.”

I’ve long felt like I’ve been marooned on an island in the Star Wars fandom for not liking the Filoni method of storytelling. For those playing along at home, that’s (1) find something you like that someone else already did, (2) have your own characters repeat it (often while lifting entire lines of dialog verbatim),…

No one in the crowd is booing you, sir. They’re saying “Boo-rsanti! Boo-rsanti!”

the very second it becomes convenient, they became just as evil as the villains they won a war against. See also: the victor of every war ever, in real life and in fiction.

Doing a CTRL F for mythosaur and getting 0 hits is probably a sign somebody else should be doing the star wars content.

(Not to bring up the other show, but this is the second time we’ve seen office life on Coruscant, and Andor’s was much bleaker.)

I think its good and even necessary for the longevity of massive universes like Star Wars to have different flavors and approaches, but this one definitely felt like Favreau got a look at Andor and thought they were stealing his lunch a little

A military force gets built up to defeat a terrible fascist enemy, and the very second it becomes convenient, they became just as evil as the villains they won a war against. See also: the victor of every war ever, in real life and in fiction.

Yeah I’m curious to see if she is or is she just wishes that it goes away and she never hears from the firefiles or about any of it again. And she just wants to be happy. But when she does “find out” that she tears into Joel and wants to leave him.

Humanity, being fucked, had no influence on his decision to murder the Fireflies and get Ellie. He was acting out of his own desires. Marlene even gave him a choice and he doubled down on it. Lying to Ellie, only cements that he knows he’s “wrong” and that he didn’t care. Whether or not the Fireflies would have been…

He did single-handedly kill roughly as many people as cordyceps did.

Joel is The Death of Us

I think the idea was that they were more of a threat twenty years ago. There are still infected out there but they are less common now. Now the problem is society is fucked and other than in minor settlements the only source of authority are military dictatorships or revolutionary ones that seem to be more or less the…

Depends if it was still alive. A cooked mushroom is dead. Still, you might get some of the living fungus on you while you were preparing it, I suppose.

Maybe not if you sautéed them with a nice olive oil and some shallots?

There is a correlation between Republican presidencies and zombie media. http://www.mrscienceshow.com/2009/05/correlation-of-week-zombies-vampires.html

There’s also a lot of scholarship that pegs upticks in zombie narratives in books and films to social anxieties over race and immigration. Take, for example, George Romero’s zombie horror movies. In Dawn of the Dead, at one point the battle between police and zombies moves to a public housing complex. One of the…

I appreciated the shot of the bodies both because of its continuity with that moment in the game, and that it showed the cannibalism was more than just a temporary, oh god we’re desperate thing. Though I do wonder how many people in the town knew they were snacking on people jerky. Plus the scene of the kid taking a…

She was just in that Ryan Reynolds movie, The Adam Project, which she did great in a role that could’ve been pretty thankless. I’m guessing she works when she wants to work, and Capital One was a nice way of just being like “I’ll work these two weeks, make a lot of money and get to spend time with my kids”.