You have to remember that the book came out in 2001, so they have some latitude to reinterpret things in a more 2018/9 context when it comes to technology and media. I suspect it might get a bit hand-wavey, but I could imagine New Media as covering old Media + some new concepts like video/streaming content on new…

This was as much of a ride as the book, only the book tok place over several months, close to a year or so. And the film over 4-5 days.

Also Dwight could easily have shot Simon in the back...

Absolutely. There’s some appalling shit in the original X-Files that I certainly didn’t notice at the time, and a lot of bad episodes. But I don’t know if there were lows in the originals that were even on the same planet as the lows in these revival seasons.

Yeah, and that “Next episode will start in 5 seconds” timer is just insidious.

Speaking of kids on your lawn and annoying clouds, I miss the days when you didnt get a brand new season all in one helping (thanks Netflix), which kind of forces you to watch it all in one sitting so you dont have to tiptoe around spoilers on the net all the next week.

I so badly want that helmet to come off to reveal Rosenbaum.

Kind of reminds me of Caprica. But better.

I feel like it’s a more general “get zombie bodily fluids (maybe bacteria?) in your system and you speed up the infection-to-death” process. You get bitten and there’s a transmission that occurs from the stuff in their mouth getting into your bloodstream...? It makes me think of the “tainted meat” moment however many…

The movie missed a great opportunity to bridge the two movies and appease the (male audience) haters at the same time...

Yeah, but I think most of the world literally disagrees with you about it not being great. The $1.1 Billion and most critic and viewer ratings pretty are on the side of it being phenomenal.

Those different views of morality and how they shift are the more interesting parts, even if they don’t evolve in any kind of consistent or rational way.

Thats really the worst thing about it. Its just very...bland? I’m not sure if thats the right word but...

While people sometimes give Marvel a bit too much credit in the sense that this whole shared universe thing was not exactly planned from the get-go, but rather developed gradually after their early success with Iron Man, there is not getting around the fact that DC’s lack of a clue of what they were going to do has…

These people are not smart enough to come up with this stuff on their own. They aren’t even smart enough to ask “what kind of knowledge are you talking about” before agreeing to trade their precious food for it. “Oh, you have knowledge? Well, whatever it is we need some of it, please take our food even though we’re…

My WTF moment: Rick has an automatic rifle with two clips. Negan has a bat. Rick proceeds to waste one clip firing at an overturned car, and the other more or less blindly shooting at walls.

The first thing I thought about the book was “To Serve Man”. Then I thought, after all of these towns they go thru, grabbing food, weapons, medicine, clothing, no one got a ton of books already on what Georgie, Hilda and Midge was offering? This is getting tired.

Shit. I knew it.

Agents of SHIELD just did that yesterday to me.

Jeez, if only we cared this much about destroying that other planet! you know, the one that supports all human life that ever has and ever will exist?