Has a Henry Darger vibe. Crude/naive, colorful, grotesque.

"Quick, the Pope just said something that reaffirms what the Catholic position has been for some time now! Ride on the coattails of that comment, and seize the next news cycle for us, the Creationists! GO!"

Captain Marvel. Absolutely awesome. Just verifies something we already knew: that there are some very, very smart people currently employed at Marvel. If they handle it right, it could be absolutely dynamite.

In the age of the Internet, I've noticed a kind of meta-difference from when I was a kid in the '70s. In retrospect, I now realize that I was extremely alert to what was going on in various subcultures around me (science fiction and otherwise). Much more so than most of the kids around me. Indeed, I was something…

I always felt that the name of the character "Mouse," one of the crew of Morpheus's ship, was a covert reference to Samuel Delany's novel "Nova." One of the main characters is named Mouse, he's on the crew of a ship with a black captain, and (crucially) everyone on the crew helps pilot the ship by plugging into it…

Fascinating! Love the giant church abacus with the assistants dashing about. Like a more primitive version of Gibson & Sterling's steampunk Difference Engine. Monkpunk.

I don't care about "spot on" adaptations; LOTR wasn't and it's great.
But I don't think there's much enjoyment to be gotten from a *bad* adaptation of a great book.
There actually can be such a thing, you know.

"Would you like a jelly baby?"
(I AM DEAD INSIDE)

I got a bit of a J. G. Ballard vibe from the overgrown London. Reminiscent of his novel The Drowned World."

Ah, the interminable battle sequence we all knew was coming.
Can someone knock *me* out, like Bilbo, and awaken me when it's over?

GRAB

"It's using the air shafts to move around."

Fascinating set of pics. So many interesting details and textures to linger over.

That's great! Very cool experiment in "creative reading" you did there.

The problem of "knowing what's going to happen" isn't an intrinsic weakness of prequels, if they can find sufficiently engaging and interesting stories to tell about *how* they happen. This is true of standalone films as well; think how many film noir narratives begin with a corpse and then flash back to the…

I've seen 2001 dozens of times. Never gets old. Gets better and better.

As soon as I finished it, I knew that it was, quite simply, a perfect book. A perfectly cut diamond of science fiction.

I remember doing this as a kid with tightly rolled-up newspaper tubes. Smoke would pour out one end with increasing intensity, until it ignited and became a downward-pointing jet of flame — like rocket exhaust.

This felt like the *smoothest* episode of the season so far. Like all the gears were running just as they should. Very enjoyable.

Until I hear more, I'm assuming some executives at the top felt the need to give Lockheed's stock value a little quarterly bump.