A Sean O’Neal article about anime? Have I died and gone to heaven?

Glad you gave it the old college try Sean! Here’s a few more recommendations based on the Akira and Paprika love - Paranoia Agent, Tekkon Kinkreet, Psycho-Pass, and Serial Experiments Lain.

I was avoiding this because “CBS Sitcom” usually means “avoid at all costs” but the first two reviews have been pretty decent. Might check this one out eventually.

I normally watch anything with Amy Acker in it because she is one of my favorite actors. When I heard she was going to be in an X-men show I was excited. When I heard she was just going to be a boring human mom I was devastated.

I hope this show dies a quick death so she can be in cool things again.

Oh, I’m not saying organic propulsion isn’t viable. Plenty of science fiction has explored that idea.

I just didn’t follow why these spores (that they were growing in their own little garden) allowed them to access the “veins and muscle” of the universe as they said. Technobabble doesn’t have to make sense, but if the…

Nah. Section 31 operates in complete secret, they wouldn’t just be part of a Starfleet ship’s security (even one engaged in top secret research).

I don’t think there’s ever been a firm date for when MACO disbanded. We just know they merge into Starfleet after the Federation forms. I was thinking the black badges were…

I don’t quite get why the spores are organic? The inspiration for this propulsion technology seems to be our current theories on dark energy. It feels like they’re veering a bit too far into fantasy if they’re thinking about the universe as an organic entity.

Anyways, I’m really digging the show. It looks like they…

Comfortable but stale seems a very appropriate description. The nostalgia is working for me so far though.

I don’t know if I audibly laughed at any of the jokes, but I certainly had a smile on for most of them. (Also nice to see Kate Micucci as an exasperated White House aide)  

So James Cameron watched Stranger Things and It and realized kids = success

Does Flatliners really have “fans”

I didn’t catch on to the metaphorical language at first so I thought they literally murdered the character on the show and there was going to be some joke about her corpse being under the floorboards.

I think the implication was that females are born far more often, but it’s such a taboo that no one talks about it and gets the surgery in secret

What parts do you think were tone deaf/offensive?

I thought they handled fgm and cultural/moral relativity in a pretty deft (and funny) way. And I’m a cultural anthropologist who has to teach these topics to university kids all the time.

I think they’ll still get to it. The whole show is still about ethics in a lot of ways. It seems pretty clear that most bad place inhabitants aren’t really deserving of an eternity of torture, so I think the show is heading towards a “prison break” scenario, where Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason will make their way…

I forking love this show.

Gilbert Gottfried

At what point do we rename the CW to Greg Berlanti’s TV Wonderland?

I can’t whittle it down to just one, so I’ll give you my top 3

Pan’s Labyrinth, because it’s beautiful and dark and gut wrenching and just everything fantasy should be.

West Side Story, because aside from Disney movies as a kid, I think it was the first real musical I saw. I loved the music and dancing and the romance…

I liked Accountant a lot, but man I laughed hard at the whole brothers reveal. Almost ruined it for me.

I’m...fine with this?

So long as they get a better script. If they have to set this in America, it should either be set in Neo-San Francisco or Neo-Detroit. Those are the only acceptable stand-ins for Neo-Tokyo.

I don’t know what she’s been saying on Fox News, but I kind of liked her back when she co-hosted TakePart Live on Pivot.