What is the point of an SF work in this day and age arguing for the importance of emotions? This is not a society that suppresses emotions; this is a society awash in them. Everywhere you turn, people are expressing their feelings , or indulging in their feelings , or using their feelings as a defense, or hoping to…

She’s perfectly fine for about 75% of Snow White and the Huntsman, if you interpret her woodenness as PTSD from being locked up in a dark dank dungeon for a decade. It’s only in the climax when she’s all of a sudden busting out an“inspirational” speech that it falls apart.

So I recently read Furies: War in Europe 1450-1700, a social history of European warfare in the Late Medieval/Early Modern periods. And it’s dire. Westeros now feels like Disneyland to me. Because however dark and grim and depressing GRRM gets, our own reality was far worse. Even Martin won’t linger on famine and…

Tolkien himself said as much:

I remember when the only ladies of action who actually got as bad as they gave were Cynthia Rothrock and the actresses in Hong Kong martial arts films. Here’s to those trailblazers!

Your book could be outdated before it was even published...But I think that’s not a problem, it’s an opportunity, if you’re willing to play chicken. The ambiguity between “now” and “five minutes from now” is just super exciting and lets you comment on all the anxieties and insecurities of our hyper-technological,…

KHAAAAN!

That show was so cheap, they only had one sound effect for every monster! The chimera, the minotaur, the hydra, the medusa—all had the exact same roar!

The songs were the best part of the show. I wouldn’t be surprised if they greenlit the series based just on those.

I have seen advocates for BDSM and other sexual kinks in the evangelical community. The theological argument seems to hinge on: whatever happens in the bedroom between a consenting Christian married couple that isn’t specifically forbidden by Scripture is A-OK.

Can you imagine being a jock and a nerd? It boggles the mind! That’s practically unpossible! One of the foundational texts of our culture told me so!

Star Trek is about meddling about in other people’s business. Star Wars is stopping people from meddling with yours.

Sure it could. King Arthur’s Camelot is practically the proto-Federation. A righteous order of do-gooders criss-crossing the land, righting wrongs and upholding a benevolent nation of order and justice. Knights of the Round Table have ethical codes based on Christian temperance or a more secularized version of…

“John fights the war differently than it was foretold. Here, on the battlefield of the Senate, his weapons are common sense and hope.”

We can only hope. I hear Disney’s execs are literal predators.

Chinese audiences probably care about it more than Star Wars.

Looks like they’re planning to!

For some reason, I can totally buy a tech-billionaire getting a Generation Z kid to work for product over a talented Millennial or Gen Xer who’d demand a salary and benefits.