The processing necessary to vacuum the room is not the processing necessary for profound artificial intelligence. Nor does it contain all the information needed to feed that AI. Which is why Google Assistant, Alexa, Siri and the like aren’t self-contained in your phone. That and the commercial and advertising…

That’s not the Walter line, that’s the Jesse line. Easy mistake to make, though, because still have the same god-damned face for some reason.

“We are Walter.”

Yeah. The imagery is scary, but the entire way in which its crafted creates this incredible, palpable unease. As a viewer, I really do believe they are creating a sense of mental disturbance in me. And because of that, and especially given how depressing life is for so many, I can understand that it might not be what…

My personal fanboy lurved on The Rainbow Connection big time. Yeah, you’re right...White Room would have been super appropriate. But that was some chilling television.

I don’t know that it’s a conspiracy or anything, but it does amaze me that Legion is a truly brilliant show that does it all: acting, design, direction, AND SMART WRITING and it seems to get less coverage than Powerless here. It has real drama because it’s not contrived emotional and anti-logic stupidity over and over…

Yeah, I’m surprised there’s been no thread here on just that. That was one of the wildest episodes of television I’ve ever seen.

Way too much forehead for my comfort zone.

I prefer the original series so much more than the remake they did. It has much deeper character development and exploration of important relationships like the brothers with their sensei.

Flash, Batgirl, Hulk.

It’s a beautiful and incredibly human film, but I feel it pushes so far into sadness it’s like a form of despair-porn. I mean it’s not...it’s unbelievably real, but to choose to watch/live this scenario that no one could ever want to live is something extreme. I watched it once when it was first available in the late…

(Yes, I know he’s technically the Grandmaster, but are you actually going to see anything but a planet ruled by Jeff Goldblum? I don’t think so.)

I feel like I should clarify, by repulsive I don’t mean physically ugly. I just mean I couldn’t stand her/the Bride in the film.

I just want to say that I think Kill Bill is a horrible, horribly derivative film (it’s not an homage, it’s a Frankenstein’s monster of a theft of many better films) and Uma Thurman is both repulsive and unconvincing as a martial artist. That said, Lucy Liu and Darryl Hannah were worth the rental.

He lived for 15 years in K’un Lun, in a warrior-monk training regimen. Which characters in the New York setting had more experience than him with that? And, given that you’re right and neither of us have watched the series, how do you know that he’s better at every Asian cultural practice? Other than martial arts and…

Okay, sure, but my point was that if Asians don’t dominate or own “Martial Arts” (using MMA competitions as the most honest appraisal hand-to-hand fighting prowess we’ve got to work with) then perhaps having a non-East Asian character in a tv show be the dominant martial artist isn’t inherently racist.

Fair enough. But—and again, I haven’t seen the scene, so this is all wild speculation—could that be written off as more a facet of Danny’s fish-out-water-and-in-”regular”-civilization character? Meaning that he’s completely ignorant of the power-differential issues going on in people’s heads in 21st Century New York…

As someone who has studied in traditional dojos and zendos and experienced less traditional ones as well, I can say for damn sure that having your own school doesn’t mean shit about whether you are a good teacher/practitioner or not.

Right, but that’s my point. Martial arts are not inherently ethnicity-based. There is some semi-convincing (or at least interesting) historical work suggesting that Greek wrestling/boxing/pankration filtered early on to the Indian subcontinent, and the Shaolin myth is that Bodhidharma came from the West (a part of…

Is he telling her that she’s living her life wrong or is he schooling her on particular things that he knows better? As someone else in thread pointed out, it’s very possible to come genetically from a culture and know way less about it than someone who is unrelated by blood but who actually immersed themselves in it.…