Can’t wait to listen to this, but I’m going to subtract one point here. Brandon actually recorded and released this song previously as “Cosmicide”, his short-lived and little known project after Secret Machines broke up/went on hiatus. I liked it back then, and Cosmicide released a couple of other really strong tracks…

Yeah’ it’s really not hard to do this in an animated show. Have him be hit by lightning, or have a piano fall on him. He goes into a coma, and awakes with a new voice. 10 minutes of a single episode can explain the whole thing, and everyone moves on.

It’s a nice thought, but I’m doubtful there’s any way to make a tour “beneficial” to the planet. I would guess that you could only strive to make it “less bad”. 

That’s an interesting idea, except I wouldn’t be able to buy that anyone could prove, or be convinced by one nut job on the edge of the solar system that aliens don’t exist. It’s also not really suggested by anything in the film itself.

I couldn’t get past some of the really goofy science in this. Including: (SPOILERS)

Oh yeah. I saw AotC at a midnight showing, opening night. The audience should have been the most gung-ho SW loyalists to fill a theater. And there was laughter throughout the film, particularly the Anakin/Padme scenes, like we were watching some terrible cult sci-fi movie. It was a strange feeling walking out of the…

No mention that the time demons are Blue Meanies from Yellow Submarine? This season seems to be heavily inspired by YS...check the font of the opening credits. I’m expecting the end of the show to be accompanied by a YS cover.

I think an HBO series like Game of Thrones might work best, maybe punctuated with occasional “event” movies. The X-Men always worked as a comic book soap opera, and a single movie every few years can’t build the relationships that made the comics work.

Jaimie just fought by their side, though, and Bran has basically given his forgiveness for crippling him. Not saying it’s impossible, but I don’t see Arya just killing him now that the White Walkers are gone.

Now that Arya had her moment, I’m afraid there’s no way she lives through the end of the season. Jon being useless here (and Danny not much better) means their big moments are still to come.

First one that came to my head was from The The:

I do A.V. work for a pretty big law firm. I can confirm there have been trainings on-site that featured clips from the movie.

I thought the exact same thing. I like the guy’s standup and podcast, but think he came off pretty decidedly as a dick with that recent rant.

I stand by the idea that the book is to blame for a lot of the issues with the movie. It’s tonally inconsistent with LOTR. Making it a prequel to those movies is almost an impossible needle to thread. See: singing dwarves, singing elves, etc. The book itself doesn’t quite know what it wants to be: a whimsical children’…

Maybe AV Club is in an eternal time loop of its own?

Yep. The big “game changing” acts over the years only ever changed the game for the younger audience that was listening to them—the older crowd always resists and claims the big act just borrowed stuff that was already there, and that they really weren’t as clever as people thought. Happens every generation. Rinse and…

Exit Music was great, no question--complete with Jonny making spooky sounds on guitar during the second verse. Maybe it was my first time seeing it? I’ll need to check. And yeah, that whole segment is amazing.

Nope.  That was ALSO the first show.  In fairness, we did get Bodysnatchers and Exit Music.  But Spectre, Feral, You And Whose Army, and Where You End and I Begin are all lesser Radiohead songs, IMO.

I don’t know about BORING, but I was in the 200 level with a perfect vantage point, and nice, cushy seats. There were two poor souls who really wanted to stand up for the show, but were quickly instructed otherwise—the entire section was seated for the duration. I’ve recently been involved in a “is sitting at rock…

I saw the second Chicago show, and I’m very much in agreement that the first setlist was miles better.  Paranoid Android and There There ALONE would seem to be required for every show, and then they got Let Down and Blow Out on top of that?  Sure, I got to see the band debut of Spectre, but....eh.  And playing Feral…