Ah yes, the final refuge of the social/cultural appeaser whose worthless, haphazard posturing gets pushback: “actually, never mind, you shouldn’t care about this! It’s also not about anything real! If you keep discussing it, that means you care too much about stupid not-real bullshit and that means nobody should take…

With Zelda, you basically start at 10/10 release reviews as your baseline. That’s half a dig at established reviewers, and half a concession that the overall quality of the franchise has indeed remained quite high (at least when Nintendo is at the helm.)

I’m not sure we get to the point where Dan (or us) concedes that maybe this guy isn’t a cruel psycho without some kind of a lie in the mix. No offense to this letter-writer, but she’s not a “no closure needed” type of person, and this whole cluster was far away from the ideal “no closure required” scenario.

The season’s script definitely had a few variants lying around that didn’t get completely pruned. If you want to talk about ballsy, think about a season of Loki that intentionally did that and made it pay off to the audience. That’s not this one, obviously, but man would that have been cool.

These Dig guest spots have been the essence of cruel teasing. Last I checked, the actor has been super coy about what they’re actually leading up to, but frankly the guest appearances aren’t doing the work they need to do on their own. They’re also throwing the “please remember and/or ignore Crisis per this episode’s…

I’m exhausted just thinking about all the lazy writing devices and tropes we’re getting tossed now. I’ve said it before, but it really bears repeating tonight: The Flash’s tail is wagging its dog. Even if behind-the-scenes drama isn’t actually motivating half the stuff we’re seeing onscreen, the clumsy writing still…

You’re more rephrasing than disagreeing. The laundry list of complaints you’ve got about the script run the gamut from “tried to be clever and failed” to “outright inexplicably bad.” Everywhere you look, laziness reigns. The only question is whether or not it’s combined with the aforementioned contempt for Episode…

So, remind me... does Zari 1.0 have the memories of what Zari 2.0's life was like? Because if not, then she’s now in a weird situation where she’s learning all about a brother that for her never even existed.

I don’t blame any of you for not sticking around for the post-show interview snippets, but uh... wow. Everybody knew this was a bad episode. Everybody.

Technically we already did, for like five seconds. When Allison broke the glass in her hand and started bleeding, the kitchen switched to Allison’s world, and Kevin was right there. His one line, IIRC, was “geez, Allison, are you all right?”

Well, if you can figure out a way to eliminate executive discretion, you’d certainly win some kind of top academic prize in the field of political science.

You think that’s bad? My shitty younger brother got rezzed by one!

Seinfeld’s crew didn’t go to jail. They went to purgatory.

It’s a truism that you pay a premium for an inferior product when it comes to video games, but it’s remarkable in how many different ways the publishers endeavor to make it true.

That’s about one step away from my tongue-in-cheek suggestion that the best DRM is making a shitty, broken game that requires a year’s worth of patches (small and often!) before it’s barely up to snuff.

The “subversive” meme for TLJ is an invention of critics that doesn’t withstand any scrutiny at all. The movie’s just a mess, because Johnson hated TFA and didn’t give a fuck about Star Wars generally. And frankly, I have no idea how to explain the whole Rose/Finn/power of love bullshit. Even for the disaster that was…

It hearkened to what Genshin Impact’s combat could be with a bit more sophistication and a lot less gacha bullshit, but I actually found the movesets on the chick maddeningly slow. You basically couldn’t do anything without leaving yourself wide open, which disrupted the flow of the combat. I was fighting against the…

Hydra’s too extra. She should just be a run-of-the-mill capitalist-imperialist with no illusions about grasping for any of the mustache-twirling versions of world domination.

He might not get killed off, but he’s most definitely going to get effectively replaced very soon (well, ‘soon’ in the grand MCU scheme.)

While it’s a bit of an unfair exaggeration - though only a bit - doesn’t it seem like any given episode of The Flash is now just a coat of veneer slapped on top of behind-the-scenes show-related drama?