This is a marketing stunt for the Go Daddy super bowl commercial, mark my words

I look forward to the 10-episode Hulu miniseries about this, with Brian Cox playing the titular role.

I’m willing to give Danny’s actor the benefit of the doubt, given how bad the writing was. He was more fun in Defenders, too.

If the price of them bringing back Jessica Henwick as Colleen is that Finn Jones comes back as her sidekick, I would be okay with that 

I would love to see Daredevil return as a standalone series.

I liked RP1 and am generally inclined to defend it, but this is a really good point.

It’s interesting you bring up the Twilight comparison, because both Twilight and Ready Player One are similar in a lot of ways: they’re both wish fulfillment series, essentially, which is why people on the same wavelength as the respective authors glom onto it so hard. The difference is that a lot of the outsized…

“Oh my God", I said out loud, after reading the Depeche Mode line.

Incurious is (as Ernest Cline would say) the perfect word for it. I mean, this is a guy whose book is set in a dystopia that he never bothers to explain between excruciating, repetitive infodumps about the OASIS (which is ALSO vaguely defined, somehow). He’s also really obsessed with peak oil rather than climate…

Meyer and Cline both write terrible books, but the backlash to both is outsized and predicated on, I think, the impression of online nerds that somehow both writers are taking something that is theirs (monsters and horror movie stuff in Meyer’s case; everything else in Cline’s) and abusing it for an audience that…

I also find it very baffling how someone like Cline can spend years of his life, writing two novels, on 1980s culture, a subject which he presumably is very interested in, yet has nothing to say about the ways in which popular culture interacts, influences, and is influenced by politics, economics, and society. He…

RP1 really is just Snow Crash but Stupid and Badly Written.

“Don’t you kids ever get tired of picking through the wreckage of a past generation’s nostalgia?” Ready Player One’s primary villain, Nolan Sorrento, asks this of the protagonists of Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline’s sequel to his 2011 debut novel. “The entire OASIS is like one giant graveyard, haunted by the undead…

I heard there weren’t any advance copies sent to critics, which was maybe the first clue this was going to be a steaming turd. Not that I had any expectations. Cline is a terrible, juvenile writer. And I can’t figure out who these books are for. I’m Generation X—Cline is just a year and change older than me—and I…

How on earth did Cline get published?

The fundamental problem with these kinds of nostalgic “geek-sploitation” soft sci-fi stories is that they often imagine a near-future in which what is considered “retro chic” today is still treated with the same fondness decades from now. Imagine if this were a novel set in 2020, but one in which our popular culture…

Yes, there’s plenty of problematic shit in his books but Cline’s biggest issue is that he’s just a punishingly bad writer. I’m not certain he even understands what writing is, beyond the regurgitation of trivia. Ready Player One was little more than an “I Love the 80s” novelization.

Probably the most interesting up thing about RP2 is that somebody’s been doing DMCA takedowns on tweets criticizing parts of the book.

Art3mis, who dumps him after just 10 days

Ready Player Two reads like a fusion between a Wikipedia page and a video game walk-through: It makes copious references but absolutely ensures readers get the joke by having characters share the source of a quote while also making it clear that it’s shameful to not already know this.