Wow, soo much Kool Aid consumption, or at least expectation thereof, in the Star Wars community. These plastic toys are horrendously overpriced. Most components canbe farmed up and assembled for half these prices, and you have a real reproduction prop, not a half-assed lump of PVA with the official Disney Seal of…

Zomg nooo! Competent people have an advantage over the technologically clueless! This has never happened before; clearly, we need to look to examples such as Harrison Burgeron for guidance out of yet another trap Technology has led us into.

It looks, at first pass, beautiful. (So did Interstellar, though, and that one was more nonsensical than the Abrams remake of Star Trek II.) Practical FX when done right still has an edge over what CGI can do in smaller scenes. Here’s to hoping Approaching the Unknown is worth a second watch (nevermind keeping.)

Watchmen do not belong in any continuity than their own. Sure, if Dr. Manhattan decided to unwind what is, to him, a separate quantum reality, sure, but...oh, why am I bothering. This is just part of the whole “Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” that pervades the world....

The writing uninspired, the acting wooden, and there’s a general lack of creativity. LeBlanc is not exactly comfortable on camera, but he’s shining next to Simon Pegg’s graceless cousin Chad Brett Chris. But hell, there are how many presenters for this show now, and we saw only two of them awkwardly doing things in…

And yet more time lost to Wikipedia and potentially endless cross linked pages. Thanks, Phineas Gage...

I was looking at the hi rez version, and remembered a throw-away line from one of Larry Niven’s Known Space books, wherein a character (don’t remember which) mentioned having an apartment in the side of the Grand Canyon. Couldn’t help myself but to wonder how Niven would frame the, “Hey, I can see my house from here”…

Amazing. Torchinsky’s first involvement—apparently—with Jalopnik is a result of him being weird. Who woulda thunk it?

They have presence, get decent mileage, come with a V8, comfortable, and Jermey Clarckson didn’t like them. What’s not to appreciate?

Sold for $8500 (included here for random posterity.)

“Kvyated” is a perfectly cromulent word.

Those two could have pulled this routine off, but they’d only practiced with a 2CV.

I’m curious as to what exactly is a bona fide spoken language, an emergent one or otherwise. Klingon, Quena/Sindarin, etc., are all languages with proper spelling, syntax, dictionaries, and more importantly, people speaking them, writing in them, and creating new words as needed for the language to be used in…

PLEASE Mr. Dean! Can we get a Monocular Group special edition trailer for Independence Day 2? It just isn’t an explody summer schlockfest movie without one from you.

Ah, the miseries of middle school come flooding back, gentle as the wavefront of a nuclear firestorm...

(sigh) Because you are in the bloody Twilight Zone. Look at your mom, she probably looks like Hillary Clinton and your dad now resembles Donald Trump. Just get done with whatever existential crisis or make reparations for the misused parking spot that got you there, and you’ll be fine.

where dozens of (white, male) scientists crunched data

Sooo, a Star Destroyer and the Engineers AlienDeviantSexToy starship from Prometheus & Alien had a drunken weekend in Vegas with combat drugs, and now we got....the “Sith Interdictor”. Mmmmkay.

And boy howdy wasn’t the Eclipse well worth...wait, no, it was shredded 2.5 pages after it was introduced when Someone had a Force Tantrum. Cool ship, though.

James, I think you’ve been a little unhappy after the whole Captain Hydra thing, and then drunk listacle-ing. Time to put the keyboard down and step away, because no one in their right mind could complain about the design of the World Devastators, while not saying a thing about those idiotic Nebulon-B frigates, is clea…