He’s not saying that Darth Maul is stupid. He’s saying that Darth Maul is always fated to lose because the Force demands balance, I guess? He’s basically talking about predestination. 

A minor nitpick is that Rucka wrote Kate to be a “lipstick lesbian” (ie, not just traditionally feminine but classily feminine, as befits a socialite) not a butch lesbian, as he wanted to avoid playing into stereotypes, and create more contrast between Kate and Batwoman. I’m not sure if this is acutally a big deal,…

I think they gave some of fAegon’s plot to Cersei, not to Dany. My prediction is that fAegon’s forces are going to take King’s Landing, and it will be him in control of the city when Dany torches the place (if it goes down like that - no guarantee it will). This is fAegon’s function in the plot, and why GRRM went out…

FAREWELL, THUNDERCHILD!

I kind of thought the show might actually go here before the season started. That the twist would be that this is all some kind of set-up and the key players are under constant surveillance.

I don’t know why it just hit me, but Laurie never even wore a mask!! So her insight into this would only come from her interactions with others.

Wait, Laurie is going on about how vigilantes are motivated by trauma and some injustice they’ve suffered, and wear a mask to hide the pain? While that’s true in wider comics, wasn’t that laughably not true in Watchmen? At least, not all the time? In some instances, maybe, but it always seemed like they were masking…

Yeah, I don’t understand why someone would decide to make a Watchmen sequel, exploring that world after the events of the original story, in the first place. But I’m especially baffled why you would take that idea, and then choose to focus the story on Oklahoma police officers.

I’d think that the show would, while…

Were-worms!!

What? Firefly failed because of Fox’s mismanagement of it. Shuffling around the schedule, putting it in a dead slot, pre-empting it for sports games... it was very much seen as a marketing and ratings failure, *not* a creative failure. I’ve never heard anyone make this analysis of it before.

I don’t think this is necessarily true either though. The Han Solo archetype has been used as the lead in several other series, such as Firefly and Cowboy Bebop, not to mention similar characters outside of fantasy. He wasn’t grating or gimmicky like Jack Sparrow - he was a likable guy with a chip on his shoulder and…

I mean, to be fair, it was a show that dealt directly with core Disney brand characters - the evil queens and villains of their fairy tale princess movies.
I think they’re probably more protective of the tone of that brand.

The Mandalorian trailer implied that someone gets cut in half by a doorway, so I don’t think we…

I don’t totally understand this. I get the wanting to see Ewan McGregor aspect, but Han Solo is a character who, on the surface, had way more storytelling potential than Obi-Wan Kenobi during his hermit years. Han Solo has a built-in mythos - he’s a smuggler with a fast ship and a co-pilot - who was flying around the…

No Samsung Smart TVs?? What the hell?

It was also produced before Disney bought Star Wars, and thus doesn’t refute his (edgy contrarian) point.

Maybe that’s why he tried to reason with the bear first. Or maybe he just didn’t want to have to hurt the bear
“In an interview with the BBC, Dowler recalled trying to negotiate with the bear before the attack. ‘I know this is your territory, I’m just passing through - we don’t have to do this,’ he said he told the…

This article has some great stuff in it, like - “Colin Dowler was mountain biking on a remote logging road on Mount Doogie Dowler – named after his grandfather” nice random aside, and also the name Doogie Dowler

Tom Shippey didn’t say anything about that. That’s Sam Barsanti trying to be snarky and getting stuff hilariously wrong. Like, Robin Williams’ character in One Hour Photo talking about Evangelion wrong.

Sauron doesn’t try to reform anything in a nice way. He teaches the Elves how to make magic rings, tricks them into…

Frank Sobotka would have totally voted for Trump, had he lived to see 2016.