You clearly didn’t watch the Amazon series. In it Sauron is joined by his nerdy younger brother Chad.

I’m glad that a series about how a giant evil corporation with too much power ruins the world is going to get a second season thanks to a giant evil corporation with too much power that is ruining the world.

As someone with cerebral palsy (who walked with two crutches like RJ Mitte,who played Flynn on Breaking Bad, until a decade ago and who still walks with a noticeable limp) , I think this bullshit arguing about terminology is unhelpful. This isn’t arguing about stuff like “disabled” vs. “crippled” — arguing “person…

The thing is, despite particular jobs being eliminated (making buggy whips isn’t really a thing these days, although it was a good career in the 19th century), there is absolutely no evidence that technology eliminates jobs as a whole.  It destroys some jobs, but creates others. Generally better ones.

He literally injects a glowing thing into his neck in episode 2. At least from the viewpoint of the viewer, it is visibly glowing.

It’s a great radio station, I just wish it would play Melanie’s “Brand New Key” more often.

Yeah, the Fallout universe is a lot like the old tabletop “Gamma World” RPG from the 1970s/1980s —giant mutant creatures, mutations that give you powers rather than cancer, etc. Not very realistic, but a bit more fun than playing a hypothetical Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” RPG.

Super Mutants are failed attempts at creating super soldiers with the FEV (Forced Evolutionary Virus). While that was pre-war tech, the games show creation of new super mutants using it, so I suppose it is possible that the quack infected him with FEV.

1. No. People in general in the games live if anything shorter lives than we do. But ghouls can live basically forever (although they eventually lose their minds and become “ferals”; the idea that they can prevent this with drugs is an invention of the show). The other way people from pre-war can survive hundreds of…

Or just hide it in a pen or something. It was tiny. Although carrying around a severed ass is certainly funnier.

Scorcese is complicated. He seems to go back and forth on whether he’s a practicing Catholic, but even when he tries to do something involving his faith he ends up pissing off the religious right. People literally protested The Last Temptation of Christ as blasphemous. I’d predict he’ll say something “wrong” in his…

And it’s not even *modern* European languages. Practically every film set in Ancient Rome, long before there was such a thing as English, has the Romans speaking in English accents (plummy RP for the nobles, Cockney and the like for the lower classes).

Napoleon wasn’t even French! He was a native speaker of Corsican, basically a dialect of Italian, and never really spoke French without an Italian accent (a bit like how Stalin spoke Russian with a Georgian one).

Apparently the really wacky parts of Scientology (Xenu, thetans, and other sci-fi nonsense that Hubbard got from his time as a pulp writer) that have entered pop-culture due to defectors leaking the “sacred texts” are only told to actual Scientologists after they’ve been in for years (and given the “church” tens of…

Old Blue Eyes may have gone to the other place, though.

Pity Leonardo didn’t paint The Last Supper with the historically accurate lasagna.

I mean what little girl doesn’t love dead birds, right?

But this is, once you rub at the veneer a bit, a pretty basic “protagonists come to a creepy little community” story, and the very familiar “are they creepy-nice or creepy-murderers?” tension can only do so much.

Starred because of the Rollerball reference. I love that film. So many people who haven’t seen it dismiss it as “that futuristic roller derby movie” but it is so much more than that.

It wasn’t; Obviously it was in front of him and so we couldn’t see it because the jerk was blocking our view!