Forgive me if this is a naive question, but if Beric Dondarrion is a wight whose heart isn’t beating and whose blood isn’t flowing, does that mean that Jon Snow also is a wight?

I watched every episode of this show from the first one to the mid-season break in season 6 before I gave up. In no way was season 2 the worst. It was slow moving (like the walkers), but it had plenty of drama, good acting and a through line that I, at least, found compelling (the evolution of Rick’s worldview from…

As Mrs. Whatsit, yes!

You referred to “the good seasons,” plural, of Sleepy Hollow. Don’t take this the wrong way, but ... are you mad? Sleepy Hollow had one great season (the first), one not-good season that did have a decent few moments toward the end (the second), one season that was so disappointing that I gave up on it halfway through…

It never occurred to me to wonder before, but now you’ve got me thinking ...

mmmmm ... maybe? I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt to a movie I haven’t seen made by talented, serious people. You might turn out to be right, it may be a totally unnecessary thing. Or it might be great. Or something else. We’ll see.

I love the velour and stretch pants uniforms. In terms of comfort and easy on-off, you can’t beat it. Screw continuity, pick something that makes sense to wear in a spaceship. Zippers? Please!

Again, you have no information that would allow you to make that assumption. Check your own psyche.

Two things: First, I cannot parse your comment logically. My point was that Evan’s post raised some interesting issues about race-blind casting. Do you disagree that those issues are interesting? Or do you disagree that race-blind casting is an issue raised by Evan’s post? Or do you disagree about something else? (You…

This raises some interesting questions regarding the appropriateness of race-blind casting, a subject much discussed at io9 (see, e.g., Iron Fist). You could take the position that casting actresses of color in this show is a positive development because it opens up meaty roles for those who might not get considered…

Well, okay, if an actor wants to treat acting as a job rather than an art or a craft, that’s fine. But if the actor acts in shitty movies or gives bad performances, that actor can’t expect the same kind of respect as would accrue if the actor chose roles for reasons of art or craft. Johnny Depp had a reputation as a…

Putting aside whether or not Natalie Portman gave an invested performance in the role in Thor: The Dark World, the role as written was exceedingly passive, which didn’t help how her character was perceived by the audience. Knowing nothing else about Jenkins’s treatment other than what this post says, it sounds as…

Pedantry alert!

Indeed. Imagine. It might have happened!

I think you should share with us the source of your information on this future event that only happened in an alternate universe. Crystal ball? Back-channel to the Kremlin? Psychotic delusion?

This discussion shows how futile it is to try to draw conclusions about how people will react to further developments from small sample sizes like a group of friends or co-workers. Some folks in this thread have friends/co-workers who voted for Trump and are abandoning him, while others have friends/co-workers who are…

Funny, I was really absorbed and moved by the Gamora/Nebula strand (though it certainly got the least screen time of the 3 strands). I really liked how Gunn inverted their relationship during the course of the movie: Gamora comes into the movie as a hero and Nebula, at least at the outset, is a clear villain. We are…

I have remarked several times since first seeing the movie that Quill’s father is a psychopath who murdered Quill’s mother. His “dad” has also murdered lots of people (in Vol. 2 alone), but at least he loves Quill.

How do you reason that Hernandez was an innocent man? Wasn’t he convicted of first-degree murder of Odin Lloyd? Isn’t that the entire premise of the vacatur of his conviction? Wasn’t he acquitted of a different pair of murders entirely?

During the primary, I thought that Cruz would be a worse president than Trump because Trump was kind of a dope who wouldn’t be able to accomplish much of his looney agenda. By contrast, Cruz was smart and he understood government, so he was more likely to be able to do harm with his equally looney agenda. And I still…