I think we all agree that Chauncey Rapiere would make an excellent presidential candidate.

Well done. You don’t see many interviews with Betan hermaphrodites on this site.

I came out of Ad Astra thinking exactly the same thing I thought coming out of 1997's Contact: all that effort, all those deaths, just to resolve some daddy issues? Except that Contact had better science.

No, he’ll just knock the house to the ground, wrap his legs around it and use it has a shield before shooting it in the head. You know, the usual.

Rogue is like... it’s like you splurge on a Caribbean cruise and have the time of your life, and then next year you take a cruise to Nova Scotia, and it just isn’t the same.

Excalibur’s biggest triumph is at the script level - how it managed to tie all the most important Arthurian tales into a single coherent 2-hour story, with character arcs and all.

As an aside, the Spartacus thing is an interesting coincidence, since for whatever reason, it feels like virtually every surviving cast member of that show has appeared at some point in the Arrowverse.

Also, just because something is useless, that doesn’t mean it isn’t attractive to potential mates. See: peacocks. If humor gets people laid, then it is, by definition, an evolutionary advantage.

Her American accent is also impeccable. I have a good ear for this stuff, and I didn’t notice a thing.

Wassisname is doing a decent job, but Olyphant was always my first choice to play Geralt of Rivia.

The costumes were by far the best part of the woebegone 2000 miniseries. I especially liked how the Sardaukar clothing was clearly based the Michelangelo-designed Swiss Guard’s uniform, big floppy hats and all. 

That doesn’t sound like a fame problem. It sounds like a parent problem.

Blockchain is the new tech shorthand for lazy writers, replacing “hack”.

It’s a work of deranged genius stapled to a bog-standard 1980s prime-time soap. It also features the least convincing “teenagers” ever committed to film.

Treat. Yo. Self.

I always say “please” and “thank you” to Siri. Can’t hurt to hedge my bets for the AI revolution.

Or maybe she’s smart enough to realize that you can either not change the future, or that not NOT change the future - what with the whole butterfly effect and everything. What you choose to do or not do has nothing to do with it; depending on how time travel works you either changed the future irreversibly the moment…

Actually, the show established fairly early on that it was working with a fixed timeline - think the 12 Monkeys - so that no matter what Claire does, she can’t and won’t change the future. Of all the problems with the show, that isn’t one of them.

I found Moffet utterly infuriating - but at least he was never boring.

The thing about the John Wick films is that they’re basically the action version of classic musicals like Singin’ in the Rain or an American in Paris - there’s a plot and there’s dialog, and they’re good and even great at times, but really they’re just an excuse to string together a series of thrilling kinetic…