Yeah, though I don't think it's a masterpiece of television or anything, I for one really appreciate the shades of gray. In a world as awful as this, the saints and heroes are already dead, and there are no perfect choices, only lesser bad ones. If it's a clear-cut Good vs. Evil story you want, almost every other…

They make sure to indicate his service was in the Pacific, so it's not as though he was personally fighting the Nazis, I'm sure the thinking goes. And we don't yet know what he did after DC was nuked.

Re: Ed being a Kempeitai spy, I think the narrative is just too compressed for that to come into play and matter, though it isn't quite forgotten, either.

C'mon, Scott, there's nothing "somewhat" justifiable about Juliana's sympathy for Thomas - he's a child who's been brainwashed since birth, for Pete's sake! If a show set in the present day showed, say, a Japanese woman feeling sorry for a North Korean 14-year-old who loved his regime but could be executed at any…

I wondered that too, but his assistant knows he dimension-hopped, so I assume he's claiming he's been violently ill…

According to TV Tropes, the show's writers have suggested that inter-dimensional travel is only possible for those whose counterparts have already died in their own world. I haven't verified the source, but it's an interesting idea.

I offered a theme in my comment above: how in a totalitarian world devoid of liberty and justice, there are no clear correct paths or even actions. Everyone's just fumbling around. We Americans (or at the very least our leaders) like to wax rhapsodic about how wonderfully virtuous and righteous we are; this series…

I know some have been complaining about it, but I really like the fact that most of the Resistance members come across as quasi-psychotic. They're risking not only their own lives but those of their families (via reprisals) on a daily basis for the American ideal of "liberty or death", and for what? A mostly servile…

Hm, a gated community of government workers? I'll buy that. Okay.

Pedantic note: biological father ≠ "real" father. Trudy had a real father, even if it wasn't her biological one.

"She is rescued, sort of, by the timely arrival of John Smith, who has
decided to handle her case personally. In a flash they’re back in New
York…"

Hey, I get it - I never need to see that movie again. But as ill-conceived and muddled as it was, at least Orci/Kurtzman made some effort to say something meaningful. Did they succeed? Oh, hell, no. But all Beyond had to say was "Whee! Friendship and cooperation is super fun when you're fighting some random psychotic…

Ah, Deadpool: in a superhero universe created entirely to avoid the need for tiresome origin stories, this groundbreaking entry in the X-Men franchise gave us… a mildly lively origin story.

As a guy who considers Star Trek (albeit the TNG variety) something of a childhood best friend, I freaking hated Star Trek Beyond, and am mystified by its hearty reception in online circles. It had zero plot to speak of, featured the fifth or sixth straight generic growling vengeance-obsessed villain, and the actors…

Upvoted for the Douglas Adams reference.

"I think most of the cast was actually British, so let them use their own accents." Yeah, but they have lots of very different natural British accents, which wouldn't have made sense for characters of the same class/city of origin. There were accents used on Rome, to mark when non-native Romans were speaking Latin.

"So here’s hoping for a future high fantasy series that gives an elf a Cockney accent for once."

The Eagle, with Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell. Damn good movie, actually.

Man, The Internship franchise has taken a moody turn.

For those wanting to actually read a book about Hughes' movies, Susannah Gora's "You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation" is a pretty legit book with lots of good interview material from the casts of the movies, including Molly Ringwald acknowledging Hughes…