The books are really good and attempted to cover a lot of the same heady topics (colonialism, genocide, the use of terrorism) in much more mature ways than Hunger Games (which came out around the same time).

A Very Fatal Murder is great but doesn’t hold a candle to Done Disappeared.  Second season just released this Spring.

“or even the fears of our primary David about the violence he’s capable of inflicting (something that wasn’t even introduced until the last couple of episodes)...“

So no one else noticed that future Syd’s left arm had been amputated just above the elbow?

But the crazy people going on bad faith were correct: when the boy was ‘sacrificed’ the Mist almost instantly dissipated.

They were written roughly at the same time, but Abrams did not write Last Jedi, Johnson did. The revised draft of Last Jedi was finished like a few months before TFA came out. They even changed aspects of TFA to go along with Johnson’s story in The Last Jedi.

“disaster to spawn dramatic mysteries obviously brings to mind ABC’s Lost, but it sounds like Manifest will be much more grounded than that show.”

Dark Knight Rises is very good, but has much more in common with Inception and it’s corporate dream logic than the other Batman movies.

Dunno about those blanks, but my theory is that Deckard is human, but had a child with Rachael from the original film. The revelation is that interbreeding with humans and replicants has been going on unnoticed for decades and it isn’t any longer possible to separate the general population outside of relying on social…

How in the world is Fargo not on this list?

Please report more on Destiny leaks. Please. I beg of you.

He wrote From Hell, which is of course the greatest work in the medium possibly ever.

The Chaos Walking trilogy is bar none the best YA books around. They tackle things like gender, refugee crisis, asymmetric war and its consequences, and the dual face of “terrorism” as a desperate act. They are completely what the Hunger Games were trying to be.

I hadn’t even realized Jonathan Strange had been adapted until seeing it on sale at Barnes & Noble. I adored the novel and the mini-series seriously nailed it somehow. They made some changes, sure, but they all worked wonderfully and the casting is just absurdly spot on. My one critique would be I didn’t like how they…

They are without a doubt more “original” than TFA, as TFA is essentially a remake of A New Hope. Whether or not that’s your cup of tea is subjective. Though Lucas saying he dislikes the ‘retro’ thing is sort of funny from the guy who wrote Star Wars (a throwback to Flash Gordon era serials) and Indiana Jones.

Ahh. For some reason I imagine a lot of creepypasta authors as kids.

So did the kid who wrote that creepypasta get paid or are we just mining the internet for years old memes for programming with abandon now?

Anyone know what happened to the supposed Knife of Never Letting Go adaptation being penned by Kaufman?

The book is very very good.

Ah, so it’s the plot twist from The Prestige.