I genuinely didn’t intend to come across as mean and apologise for doing so. I wasn’t trying to imply that the command of the language was bad. There’s just a quality that I have seen in ESL writers before; the best way I can describe it is of sentences being assembled piece by piece rather than naturally formed. But…

I wonder if English isn’t this reviewer’s first language? There’s a certain clunkiness to the writing that could suggest that. Or they might just not be very good.

It sounds like something a punk teenager in the 50s would say to you: “Ah, go ride sand, ya palooka!”

I never know if my standards for critical writing are unreasonably high, but it really puts my teeth on edge when a review doesn’t have a proper closing statement. I think you should be able to read the last line in isolation and know what the review as a whole was going for.

In conclusion, Dune is a land of contrasts.

“Welcome to Trailer House, how may I help you?”

This is aping ‘Suicide Squad’ aping ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’. It’s like someone doing an Orson Welles impression after listening to Maurice LaMarche do his.

Just have his off-screen death referenced in a line of dialogue: “Did you hear Kang actually shit himself to death? He finally just fell off the toilet, face-down into a cream pie.”

That’s still better than “edgelord hacker who gloms on to Reed’s science project for ill-defined reasons”.

I don’t know if this is a good idea, but I kind of imagine him as the Tony Stark of magic (which I guess some would say they already kind of did with Doctor Strange): he’s an innovator, studying sorcery with a mix of wild creativity and scientific rigour, combining it with technology to create the ultimate in weaponry…

If Marvel is able to keep a character like Paste-Pot Pete going, they can throw this dude a little love.

We have to get Jon Hamm as Doom.

That’s what most of us call an upgrade.

I don’t revisit ‘The Office’ (UK) these days due to the Ricky Gervais of it all, but that performance review scene with Keith remains a classic. The bit of them going through the multiple choice responses over and over again should get old fast but it doesn’t.

“For the last time, we are not going to greenlight that Kitt Fisto origin story, please stop asking!”

*Jek Porkins goes up to Imperial immigration*

“Oh, that’s the trapped consciousness of a droid whose entire motivating belief was that droids should be free beings rather than property. That strange dialect is probably her unending screams of torment as she contemplates her living hell.”

Alfred’s complete refusal to take Bruce seriously is one of the best running gags of the series. I love his response when Bruce says he was bitten by a dog, and Bruce’s follow up: “It was a big dog.”

I like the fact that the Joker is a really funny guy, provided you’re a sociopath. Like when he responds to Batman telling him to let Rachael go by saying, “Very poor choice of words” and dropping her out a window. The wit is there; he just also ... tried to kill a human being.

Turner D. Century, armed with the power of heteronormativity!