I disliked this episode and felt it was the weakest of the show so far.  Their vision of Silk Spectre was a fairly tired retread of a embittered noir hero who thinks they’ve seen it all and mouths off to everyone.  A lot of her superior interactions with the shows established characters felt unearned, and the showed…

Lynching wasn’t an exlusively anti-black form of violence, although it was primarily anti-black.

I haven’t read the book, but I have listened to the podcast and it does sound as if the author is somewhat minimizing or excusing Taylor’s crimes because of her upbringing.  I think that’s a huge problem.  Millions of people were subject to the racial system which Linda Taylor grew up in and they didn’t do what she…

He wrote a long article about her for Slate several years ago which gives her story.

That would be funny if they included Tamzin Merchant

So does this mean that the whole show is off, or will they reshoot the pilot like they did with Thrones? 

Not surprising.  IIRC the presidential candidate getting the most money from Silicon Valley donors is Elizabeth Warren, who has proposed breaking up the big tech companies.  Just because you work in an industry doesn’t mean you’re a mindless drone who agrees with whatever the boss says

This is a shitty story

She hasn’t been in it a lot. 

My problem with it is that they’re talking about the Bear Jew as this fearsome guy and him in the dark clanking his baseball bat as he gets closer is really menacing... and then out steps Eli Roth.  No one, ever, has been scared of Eli Roth.

Some of this commentary doesn’t make a lot of sense.  Like the idea of them taking fantasy elements out of the show.  Except for some of the esoteric backstory and lore, the show is about on par with the books.  One thing which distinguishes ASOIAF from most other fantasy series is the paucity of supernatural…

The original pilot was notoriously bad.  No one in the public has seen it but the focus groups were apparently terrible.  One comment I remember hearing about it was that people didn’t understand that Jaime and Cersei were brother and sister. 

Ron Moore clearly isn’t a one hit wonder though.  When he adapted BSG he had already had an extensive career as a writer for Star Trek, first as one of the most important writers on TNG and then later as showrunner of DS.  And after BSG he went on to create the very good Outlander adaptation over at Starz

I remember a quote from a movie producer, I forget his name, but he said that “If I greenlit everything I passed on and passed on everything I greenlit I’d probably have come out about the same.”

Kavanaugh’s calendar bolstered the accusations though.  His defenders made a lot out of the fact that Ford couldn’t remember the exact date that the assault happened, but she said that she thought it was in early July.  Kavanaugh’s calendar his him going to someones house of July 1st “for ‘skis” and he lists in…

Last year, Robert Mueller was trying to get Trump to testify and Trump wanted to do it, apparently naively thinking that he could just charm Mueller into making it all go away.  So Trump’s lawyer did a mock deposition with him.  Afterwards, the lawyer called up Mueller’s people and said that under no circumstances…

It won’t mean anything.  Remember when Brett Kavanaugh’s calendar corroborated Christine Blasey Ford’s story?  They ignored that,

Yeah, I call bullshit.  Watchmen is definitely about superheroes, but the idea that it’s limited to comics seems nonsense.  One of the things about Watchmen is how damn cinematic a lot of it is, with tons of ‘shots’ which would seem perfectly at home in a film but were highly unusual in comics, especially at the…

Although i really liked the last scene.

Maybe I’m not remembering right, but isn’t the cumshot flamethrower straight out of the comic?