It's not profitable in any context to just talk about pop culture within its own sphere. On either the left or the right, you only really get anywhere if you link a character's arc and decision on some CW show to a larger point about race relations or gender studies, because you're either attracting the people who…

Holy crap, I hadn't thought of that book in over a decade, probably more.

Rabin got too expensive I guess.

Yeah, it was painfully obvious that the kids worshiped the 80s because Cline worships the 80s, right down to the painfully rote evil corporation bad guys who just want to game a frankly absurd system in order to "earn" the rights to a corporation they already legally own anyways.

I'm really curious who, assuming they put him in the movie, they cast as Heinz Guderian.

I tried to get excited when they all got giant robots to fight at the end, I really did. One of them was even the RX-78, the all time most balling mobile suit of all time…and it did nothing for me. The book expects me to view nostalgia as a renewable resource that will overtake fossil fuels as our future power source,…

Well it does make you look like you have something interesting to say, right?

Yeah, inevitably it would turn into a big polemic about how the Jedi were betrayed by the ignorant masses and how they should just rule the galaxy for its own good.

Right now, probably Beneath the Mask, or even the tune that plays in the safe rooms.

In fairness to the show I suppose I didn't give it time to answer the charge itself, but it felt like a serious logical leap from "these guys just dropped a nuclear weapon in anger" to "oh well, that's life I guess, let's just go on with Mr. Terrific character building bottle episodes."

I actually totally dropped this show and Flash because of that plot point. Regardless of the heightened reality of the superhero setting, if nukes from Vladimir Putin's Russia fell onto US soil for any reason, including a totally provable accident, that's a fucking World War, not a pat on Felicity's shoulder and a…

Well, can't unsee that ever….

I think it's a specific story choice this time around. In previous games the nature of the other world was always opaque, in P3 you get weapons from the cops because Tartarus and the shadows are a known problem caused by adults who are trying to be responsible for it by sending their kids to clean it up (maybe…

Yeah…there's litterally mountains of character motivation that are simply not discussed in much of the Yates-era films. The Half-Blood prince is by far the most egregious, and this is from someone who hasn't really considered himself a fan of the books since I finished them in 2007. Like…who the fuck is Regulus Black…

Yeah, the first thing I thought when I read that was that Iwai sells *plastic model* guns to kids…not actual swords and shit like you buy from the police in P3. The game goes out of its way to state that cognition is what makes that junk actually hurt in the palaces.

Man, your list is just…terrible…

I think the crappiest part about it was that they were even talking about bringing back Michael Biehn too. I know we humans jones a little too hard on the Nostalgia these days but it had to be a better idea than another plastic Michael Fassbender vehicle.

He would have to work pretty strenuously to undo all of Cameron's goodwill in Hollywood, a tall order considering Cameron is also trying to undo his own goodwill, to little apparent success.

It should nevertheless speak to the issues with this that people were still more excited to see a film from someone with Blomkamp's spotty track record over another film from Scott.

A friend and I were just talking about how much Scott must have leveraged his personal influence to crush the project once he saw how comparatively excited people were about some other guy doing something in his playhouse while his own previous film in the franchise was met with largely tepid reception.