jamesderiven
James DeRiven
jamesderiven

Man. Who knew 1997 was the last year we’d get a watchable Batman movie.

“You see that in the HBO Chernobyl show.”

My dude, if you watched the HBO Chernobyl and walked away thinking “people seem very much in control” I don’t know what show you were watching but it wasn’t the show HBO just aired, in which every moment of ‘control’ is shown again and again to be illusory, a phantom generated

Boy did I misunderstand the title and assume a 20 year old game was about to get a patch to remove something because of an inane copyright claim that’s about 18 years too late for anyone to give a damn.

What is this nonsense? Jude Law’s character doesn’t have a name. Nobody walked out of that theatre calling him anything other than Jude Law or You Know The Bad Guy. (Or, for the deep cutters, Space Captain)

So I’m not in danger of having my Library erased or anything? Most of it isn’t iTunes music, but a few things are.

In my day “app” meant something for a cellphone, while something for a computer was still called either a “program’ or an “application.”

So for someone not up on branding lingo who uses a desktop and down’t want to touch a fucking cellphone app ever if he can avoid it, what does this mean for me?

Think how many more scene of women stripping we could have had, and characters introduced to immediately die to show that this movies has Stakes. Gee, what a loss to cinema history.

Sort of. There’s a lot in there that’s great.

As an adult, though, it is very clear that Kira does all the fucking work, Jen does nothing, but still gets to be regarded as the hero because he’s the designated protagonist. A stronger film would either have given him something positive to do once in the entire movie, or

I want to think so but Discovery still exists.

Given that his scene in Star Trek is the NuTrek franchise’s high water mark (and god is that a sobering thought) I’m not shocked he took a look at the script and said ‘this is the best you can do? Nah.”

Okay, now - much more importantly - name the eleven episodes that made even us massive Archer fans just kind of stop giving a shit and forget the show was even on anymore.

(Extra Difficulty Challenge: none of them can be a Barry episode from season 3 on)

It can clear whole rooms of skin under the right circumstances.

How Jon Snow’s Story Came Full Circle To Form A Zero

It’s a mediocre film.

Not a bad film. Not a horrible film. Not an offensive film. Not a garbage film, or a trash fire, or a dumpster fire, or an unmitigated disasters.

It’s just... there. It exists. It’s not great.

Not because of Brie Larson, or Annette Benning, or the transcendent Lashana Lynch - who did their best with

Not available in my country. Wow CBS, you never fail to find new ways to make me fucking hate you with every fibre of my being. The fact that the rights to Star Trek are held so clench-fistedly by a company that in every way works counter to the philosophies of Star Trek disgusts me.

Once more, sweet CBS, fuck you.

This show is still on?

I walked away during Archer Dreamland and found to my crushing regret that I don’t miss it.

Can I still fault him for being able to create great dialogue and well-crafted prose but being utterly incapable of harnessing those talents to create good books? Now or ever?

Women getting violently raped on camera as a form of character growth and then hacking their rapists to pieces in an orgy of blood because that’s a character arc.

Yes, I would agree that the writing of True Blood and Westworld is exactly at parity with that of Game of Thrones.

I would reverse-recommend Westworld. Veep is great. I don’t know what kind of back-catalogue is available on the service but if they’re around Dead like Me is one of the greats (Dead Like Me is one of the greats but shockingly it was a Showtime show, not HBO.) Carnivàle is something of a mess but it’s so committed to

I am in the same boat. ‘Oh yeah I stopped caring about those bloated doorstoppers for a reason.”