Hated that the writers kept re-doing the “no one has memories, let’s tell the story backwards” trope that apparently they are using for this reboot as well. It was interesting once, then just lazy.

Not quite on topic, but this list omits the best, completely insane OUAT re-write: Rumple was Cinderella’s fairy godmother.

That was the best thing about it! It completely bought into it, and you were willing to go along for the ride. Essentially “put it all in a blender” and see what pops out.

Let’s see how it goes. If a comparison between Ready Player One and Armada has shown us anything, it’s that there’s a line between a heartfelt “I love nostalgia” that is wrapped around a plot, and a retread that shoehorns in some characters. So far, I’ll put this closer to the former than the latter, but it’s a pretty…

I see that GKids has the Norh American release rights. Does anyone know if it will be released dubbed? My daughter loves anime, but isn’t a strong enough reader yet to do subtitles.

But we’ve always been at war with Eurasia

But we’ve always been at war with Eurasia

All things considered, I think the transit of Earth and the moon from Mars in 2084 will be the show to see. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Earth_from_Mars

Pierson’s Puppeteers!?

Actually, that would probably teach us very little. Things that are as robust as tardigrades tend not to change very quickly evolutionary. Given that the research I think I recall has shown that they also are adept at repairing DNA damage, in a sense, they’re probably an evolutionary dead end. (Corroborated by the…

Forget Trump for a minute and just remember what a national treasure Buzz is

Sometimes, you need to give up. Especially for the conspiracy-minded, this comes into play:

Yeah, but remember, in the wrong hands, this method just makes you look like an ass. I had a supervisor who clearly felt that he was using the Socratic method, but in essence he followed the pattern of: ask why the think or feel like they do; keep asking the questions until they run out of answers and feel badgered;…

Where are my Lorentz attractor pasta noodles? And if you can make them in the shape of Klein Bottles, can they really hold infinite sauce?

Since I’m never going to become a comic book author, I will offer up this unused plot idea for a Batman arc: Batman is faced with the work of a serial killer, but cannot figure out the common theme between the victims. Ultimately, he discerns that all the victims have names that the killer believes presage their…

I have to say...I think your grandmother and people like her are able to have a level of equanimity because when their time came, they fought like (fill in metaphor here) and didn’t give up. I don’t take your grandmother’s story as an indication that I can sit back, any more than I take my father-in-law’s experience…

“But Senator Cruz: I am not left-handed either”

Ted Cruz: The semi-sentient blobfish who wished to be a real boy, and probably still mentions that he went to Harvard Law in every conversation.

Please read (everyone) the book series The Last Policeman. Brilliant, devastating, the Platonic ideal of what a “asteroid is coming to destroy the earth” story should be. Like all the best SF, it is about humanity at its both best and worst. I can’t even see this trope anymore without this coming to mind.

Makes sense to me. In high school, during our Shakespeare unit, our teacher constantly referred to the plays as Henry the iv (prounounced “ivvvv”), parts ih and ih ih.