It’s fucking depressing.

Old AvClub had its problems (And the old AVClub comment system wasn’t better so much as different) but some people act like debating movies is offensive on here now - the movie is either good or it is bad and you cannot say something bad about a good movie without being a bad person.

Not all the…

Hey if MASH can run ten seasons...

(Seriously, though, the Star Wars timeline never makes sense out. Yeah 19 years between Revenge fo the Sith and A New Hope seems like a long time, but the more you look at things like Rebels and go back and watch how people talk in A New Hope about the past - 19 years never seems long…

Season 1 starts rough. Not quite Clone Wars rough - which is to say ‘I am embarrassed to be over the age of three and watching something this cloying and obnoxious’ - but nearly as rough: the pilot is, ummm... boring. It’s boring. And not very good.

The rest of season one follows a sort of ‘two steps forward one back’…

Clone Wars also contains some of the abject worst material in all of Star Wars.

There are very few shows I can think of that have such wildly divergent levels of quality.

... oh, right. This isn’t that follow-up to Rebels I keep thinking it is - it’s just... the unmade season six of Clone Wars. Which is fine and everything but at this point it’s a midquel: its past and future already known.

Hey, did Resistance ever not-suck?

I feel like this would be better on Dark Souls for... some reason...

“Feel free to give Ant-Man a miss, though” Joe says with a chuckle, “Especially if you’ve just re-watched Iron Man - no point in repeating yourself.”

“Joe didn’t even see the second one,” Anthony adds with a grin. “And I rushed out to pee at the sixty minute mark and realized I had no motivation to go back in the…

Was anyone else super disappointed in Battle Chef Brigade once you realized that: A) despite being a story about chefs who wander the world battling one-another you were on a rigid story-track with no freedom of movement or even exploration and B) nothing you put in your dish mattered? The only thing that changed the…

Me too. TLJ had some serious issues (a dreadful second act, especially), but its messaging mattered so much: you can be a hero regardless of your past. Being born a nobody doesn’t mean you must live like one. And maybe putting all our hopes and dreams on a single genetic line was a big god-damn mistake.

Also: the war…

Tragedy Struck Space Today As The Crew of the International Space Station Were Killed During A Sudden Depressirazation Event Preliminary Reports Are Saying Occurred After US Astronaut Spooooon Allegedly ‘Punched’ A Window Out Of Its Frame During An Uncontrolled Acceleration While Shouting “Suuuupermaaannnnn” Very…

Because Interstellar was a movie and didn’t shoot on location.

There. Short and sweet.

Being really good in a field does tend to create arrogance - I think that culturally we reinforce this by making things like post-nominals and titles like “doctor” badges of honour and distinction, when they should also be reminders that specificity cuts both ways: yes, you have focussed very hard to perfect this one…

I realized a long time ago that the only way change is going to happen at the scale a lot of countries need is to elect a “class” of representative - be they senators, MPS, congresspeople, MLAs, MPPS, what-have-you - willing, as a group, to lose the next election before they’re elected to this one.

Because the sticking…

Every Republican President since Nixon has had a criminal conspiracy occur on their watch and under their supervision.

Not one of them has so much as endured a disapproving letter in their file.

you want to start pursuing people, you’re going to have to be away at what a massive and far-reaching project that’s going to…

Ben Carson has long been proof of the lie of STEM mythos- which is that being good in a STEM field makes you some kind of genius.

Instead of just, you know, really good at a thing you’re good at.

Ben Carson is a brilliant neurosurgeon.

He’s also an idiot.

This guy graduated from MIT - oh let’s say in Space Robotics…

In the Gorgeous New Lion King Trailer, the Circle of Life Has Never Looked So Good

Uh... yes. Yes it has.

In 1994 there was a movie called The Lion King that did all this shit already..

No.

These are not ‘delightful.’ They are weird and off-putting.

I don’t... love it.

Charlize Theron is great but that brief clip of her talking was a... lacklustre performance. Uncle Fester sounds like one sentence is all you ever want to hear out of his mouth. The designs are off-puttig - and not in a “spooky” way just in a“lousy character design” way.

There’s two ways to go with…

Maybe Felicity Huffman will play herself, a la Oliver Thomas in Treme.

Thank you. More than anything I’m just tired of grim and gritty.