Honest question: what’s so bad about Gladiator? It’s well acted, looks good, has a villain that you grow to hate, and an emotional ending. My biggest issue with it are the icky low framerate bits that get used a few times.

I just went to my first midnight showing of The Room a few weeks ago (I knew a lot about the film but had never actually watched it before) and it was a blast! That said, I don’t need to go see it again.

Get the armor for next time!

The Mythosaur pulling him under was my first thought too, but it seemed like it wasn’t paying any attention to him on the way back up. And that Mythosaur was huge, seems like it wouldn’t have been able to get that close to shore without breaching the surface. I’m sure we’ll find out next week...

A much better episode than week 1! And everything looked pretty great too, especially the flight down to the Mandalore surface and the cyborg eyeball creature.

As far as “zombies” are concerned, I think that a Cordyceps fungus is actually relatively realistic as it’s based on something that actually happens today in other species.

Now you’ve really piqued my curiosity. I only played through the first half or so of the game a few years ago (too stressful) so I don’t know where the story is headed at all anymore. I think the series could have used another episode or two (if nothing else just because I enjoy watching it and want more) and I do…

That’s a good catch. I missed that that “deer” was actually code for people. And that’s probably why David dragged the deer that Ellie killed into the dining area, he wanted to show any skeptical followers that they actually had venison.

I read a game/show comparison article and I agree, I do think the game handled this part of the story better. But I only partly agree that the show needs more infected. On one hand, yes, the lack of infected do allow you to forget why Joel and Ellie are even travelling together. Watching them bond is great, but there…

I think the space alligator scene could have been cool and fun if it was shot better. Instead, what we got was a bunch of Mandalorians basically just standing on the beach ineffectively shooting at the thing. Why were they even fighting it at all when they could have just retreated into the cave behind them? We…

After further review, you are correct.

They did such a good job building a sense of dread in this episode. We already know what’s going to happen so I spent half the episode looking in the background for any sign of movement from that Clicker.

Odenkirk and the Better Call Saul cast get robbed once again. And Stranger Things winning over Andor for Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble, really?

You’re right, my delineation doesn’t hold up for new versus old characters. And I actually like most of the new Earth-based characters, especially Steinfeld as new Hawkeye and Pugh as a new Black Widow. The delineation I was trying to make was more so between the more grounded stories versus these grand cosmic…

Yea and I totally get that. But as someone who never had any interest in comics, who was effectively roped into Marvel by the first Iron Man movie, I’d still be way more interested in seeing more from Tony Stark and Steve Rogers than be introduced to whoever Beta Ray Bill is. 

I’ve certainly become less interested post-Endgame. I agree that there are too many new characters being introduced, but I think that the bigger issue for me is that the new characters and storylines aren’t grounded in reality (which may be a strange nitpick when discussing comic book characters.) Ironman, Cap, Hulk,…

It really was. But the final straw for me with TWD was when Tyreese was killed by a lone zombie. I realized that the zombies were only as dangerous as the plot needed to be when the 250 pound guy, who at any other point in the season could fight off multiple zombies, gets pinned and bitten by a 150 pound decaying…

In a post-apocalyptic USA where there are likely more guns than non-infected humans, it’s strange that the four hooligans didn’t have a single gun between them. I’d expect everyone to be carrying at this point.

One of the things that’s so great about this show is that it doesn’t follow the same “zombie movie” tropes that so many other movies and TV shows do. When Frank shows up at Bill’s compound we’re trained to think he’s just acting nice but will eventually be a bad guy, but he’s not. When Joel and Ellie make it to the…

Yours sounds like an interesting situation. I have Netflix subsidized by T-Mobile and when Netflix raises prices I end up paying the increase because the deal is that T-Mobile pays $9 or whatever towards it. I’d assume in your case that Walmart would have to eat the extra cost (they’re probably not even paying the…