Captain America really is great at evoking that simpler, more innocent time when everyone could agree that punching Nazis was a Good Thing. Man, remember 2011?

Green Lantern? I don’t understand, Tom. Everyone knows that didn’t happen because the lead actor was...you know.

I think that was a maxim of the late Terry Pratchett’s. Any time you create a fantasy city you should ask how the fresh water gets in and how the sewerage gets out.

+1

Especially when the trailers have a narrator talking about “the world has run out of resources”. Yes, we have no resources, except for the fuel to let us movie entire cities around the planet.

That non-inconsequential bit never made a lick of sense to me.  The amount of power it would take - and fuel consumed) - goes way beyond normal suspension of disbelief.

I never read these books, and won’t see the movie. But the whole moving city thing was done much better in John Carter of Mars with Zodanga, the “predator city”, I think it was called.

Well all this sounds like entirely too much.  I’ll just watch Snowpiercer again.

What’s a shame about this adaptation is that the books had some very clear cinematic inspirations. They were basically Miyazaki movies (Nausicaa, and Castle in the Sky particularly), with some early Jean Pierre Jeunet, and Monty Python thrown in.
Jackson and Rivers seem to have gone for something far more generic and…

Vindieselpunk

“Some effects artists have been able to successfully transition into directing—just look at James Cameron!—but the jump from short film to $100 million blockbuster seems to have to been a rough one for Rivers.”

Eh, I thought the movie was plenty fun. Went in totally blind last night - didnt know the book existed, didnt know the movie was a thing until I got a free pass - thoroughly enjoyed myself.

I actually liked this episode a bit better. I agree it wasn’t a huge payoff, but I did appreciate that there were things that came back up and character moments. It did feel like Chris Chibnall knew where he was going and I think Tim Shaw can potentially recur as a potential baddie. I do want DW to cultivate some…

“...have Ray show off his brand new (non-mission-related) moustache that Gideon helped him grow”

Possible future team members? I’d dig that, actually. I’m already looking forward to the Mona Loves Kaupe spin-off series. 

I liked Mona when she was bouncing off other regulars, like Ava, Nora, Nate, etc. Not a big fan of giving her separate story lines so soon. Also, the time bureau is a total mess, so how much of that should be on Ava?

Nice, obscure Robert Bloch reference.

Eheheh. I see what you did there, Dr. Carmody. ;)

I’m pretty sure the Ripper was an energy being who left Earth after these murders to noodle around committing murder sprees on other planets before ending up in a body with Piglet’s voice and being extrajudicially executed by disintegration on USS Enterprise.

I’m pretty sure the Michael Caine TV Miniseries had them as actual characters. It also had William Gull as the killer a full year before From Hell was published AND it’s WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better than From Hell because it’s got Michael Caine as Inspector Abberline.