“I feel like Game of Thrones suffers too much from comparisons to itself, and even when it’s not at its best, we need to step back and remember how incredibly lucky we are that this series exists.”

Here’s the thing about The Wire: I wouldn’t show a child The Wire. Ever. I’d absolutely show a kid plenty of Doctor Who episodes (within reason - not even I’M going to watch Midnight again). And Moffat kills it on that point - it can be such an aspirational show that displays the best of humanity. And not just for…

Before anybody makes a movie, ponders a thought, they all should look up Nebezial’s work on She-Ra.

So, basically it’s these three:

The other postings for this (and any zombie related thing in general) seem to be chalk full of ‘wont the zombie genre just die already (Ha ha!)‘, but i think as long as there are movies that change up what the genre is, i think it’ll keep going (and should). Shaun of the Dead, The Girl with all the Gifts, etc, keep…

Once was the untrustworthy b in apartment 23.

“...what about when we believed we’d soon be in a full-scale nuclear war?”

And the really horrifying part? The Day After was the one that soft-peddled the apocalypse for American prime-time TV viewing. BBC’s Threads... [shudder]. Did not pull punches. Did not airbrush, whitewash, or sugarcoat.

I wonder how many people realize that as children of the late 1970's and early 1980's we were... inured to death. We knew we could die. I lived in an area surrounded by primary targets. I asked our bus driver after a drill once: “Where could we go, we’re surrounded?”

I<m still going with my theory that Marvel is only doing this thing because they legally have to.

I gotta go with Sheriff Jack Carter from Eureka. I always thought he was one of the most realistic depictions of parenting on TV, not only with Zoe, but also with his surrogate/step kids in Kevin and Jenna. Dude had to grapple with divorce, rebelliousness, special needs, knowing when to hold on and when to let go, and…

That looks great.

If you’d like to know more about the Shakespearean Star Wars books, the excellent Kyle Kallgren has a great video about them:

Granted, this has nothing to do with the movie itself. But since I have kids who are just getting out of the “only watch animated movies” phase:

IF [bunch of dudes show up to “fix” your planet]

“...she was brought to life by Zeus.”

I’m most excited about his daughters who languished in D.C. limbo for entirely too long. I honestly thought I’d never seen them written anywhere ever again so this show has me pumped to see them on screen.

By skewering the characters until they are unrecognizable from what people know about them.

The fact that all friends that are girls need to become girl friends in Marvel/Netflix shows is the thing that kills me most. Colleen didn’t need to be his girlfriend, they had a great budding friendship and most the plot points could have still existed without them fucking. Claire and Luke had a great friendship and…

Okay, let’s get into it…