Even if they'd known the exact distance, would the Romans have thought going halfway round the world was worth doing? That's a real question because I'm pretty foggy on their history, I just had the impression that their standard approach to military/trade expansion tended to be more about moving in on stuff they…

[forget it - waste of time]

Besides what everyone else said about Richard being an asshole, which he is, he's also at least 10-15 years too late with his manifesto. The software industry has lots and lots of athletic bro dudes in it; unless you're in some particularly non-youth-appealing corner like, I don't know, the IT department of John…

Why we're supposed to be interested in a confrontation between Raviga board members when none of them are people we've ever met or have any reason to be interested in, I don't know. It's like this reviewer wants to watch any one of an infinite number of shows that are related to this show, but aren't this show.

Showing us that jail conversation was a really good choice - you can see they're trying to help each other out, but as soon as she says "Yeah, I can wait" you can see it's doomed. Shadow probably thinks she couldn't handle a year and a half in prison, maybe she couldn't, but if he'd seen her like we did in the first…

Good grief, of course Gaiman's fans think he's creative in general. It just sounded like you were saying that the silly name bothered you even more because you thought his fans would think the silly name was awesome. If not, sorry - that's just a kind of logic I see a lot on the Internet, like "I can't stand ____ even…

People have in fact tried to tell me that Moon isn't a surname. There's someone just a couple comments up who clearly has a problem with the last name by itself. But anyone who has to fall back on how they imagine some fans somewhere will be annoying ("made moreso by the fact that the author's fans will praise his…

I do think that's in line with Fuller's sense of humor, and also with Gaiman's— The Sandman was full of sick humor bits involving death, dismemberment, losing one's mind or being transformed into something awful. When I read the book, Laura's deadpan attitude did make me think a little of the undead best friend in An…

Eh, even if it's a nickname, it's one that absolutely everyone knows him by, so I have no problem with the warden being a little informal that way at a moment when he can't think of any other way to be nice to this poor guy.

It depends what she has to work with, doesn't it? I mean, Laura just hanging out at home and being ignored by her cat would be pretty one-note, but when Laura reacts to things, even if her state of mind still isn't good, that's when she comes to life (so to speak) and you can see why she'd be interesting to be around.…

No shit. It's not like it's hard to look up, either. But people who are mad at Gaiman for this don't seem to care, I've mentioned it before and still they're like "So what if it's a real name, I still know that the writer was trying to be pretentious and gothic with it so I don't care."

I slightly disagree, only in that I think the expansion of Laura and other characters on the show is still being done in a very Gaimanesque way— it's a kind of writing he does do, he just tends to do it more with his minor characters and in smaller amounts. Especially in his comics, he got pretty good at getting in…

That's just about the only way I can think of to make this make sense (I mean, besides "for the sake of drama", which I'd be more or less OK with too). The Center has hired random hitmen before, when they'd already made a decision and weren't interested in talking to the target.

She goes through three really different situations in the scene. 1. She thinks she might have a chance— they don't seem to have any real evidence on her, maybe their attitude of certainty is a bluff. 2. She panics when they mention her husband, and gives them a garbled bullshit confession - maybe she's deliberately…

Was posting the same joke half a dozen times your way of daring someone to say "Will you absolutely not stop, ever, until we are dead?"

Oh, shit no, I certainly don't think it's the same. What I was trying to say is that the mere fact of an enforcer saying "Yeah, this thing I just did was bullshit" is not really adequate evidence that the system is about to come crashing down, because people do manage to rationalize it exactly the way that guy did:…

Honestly I think there are probably lots of cops, etc., working in any system, who end up saying things like that. There are always some unjust laws and not everyone enforcing them is going to be a true believer, so there's always the rationalization of: well I know this is stupid, but still, this asshole did know…

The novelization mentions that they find some storage area where the alien has gone to town on the ship's food stocks, but even without that detail… they're on a ginormous ship that's carrying a bunch of industrial materials as well as supplies for human life support. So if the alien can eat Earth-type food (which if…

Naloxone does indeed block opioids from working, but that doesn't mean it would ease withdrawal symptoms. The opposite really, it'd make withdrawal harsher sooner.

It's one thing for her to tell her parents about it, it's another thing for them to look at it directly. She had a really upsetting experience seeing those pages for the first time; her parents only got her summary of it. I think it's natural for her to feel like, if they didn't get why it was so disturbing, maybe…