I grew up a couple miles from the Joseph Smith farm and every summer we were inundated with Mormons, so I absolutely get that as a character motivation. 

So nothing is changing but a few words before a title to try to get the thickheaded bloggers and reviewers to stop pretending you need to “watch everything” and “do homework” to enjoy the Marvel movies, because the “superhero fatigue” narrative drives engagement and makes for an easy scapegoat for a complex media…

The first episode is about refugees and the second episode is about Capitalism destroying the human soul.

This is usually where I post my (very rough) rankings and (very brief) reviews of all the Hugo and nebula nominated novels.

People think DS9 only got good when the Dominion stuff started?

Maybe early on, but I think nowadays everyone knows what a psychic knife is, even the old folks on Facebook. 

I believe that I’ve seen every episode of every show in the “Arrowverse” including the adjacent shows Superman & Lois and Naomi. While sometimes the shows didn’t have the highest of production values, they were always watchable. I’m still angry that Legends of Tomorrow never got a proper ending. 

Right.  It’s less “I can’t avoid spoilers for a Saturday” and more “CONVERSATION IS ALREADY HAPPENING AND I’M MISSING IT.”

“But one has to wonder, with the show getting so little love from the general public, how are we so lucky? How is this very expensive show still going and also, now expanding?”

Aw man and then he jumps out and deploys the wings? That actually might be awesome

Is Ross going to tell Sam to get off his plane at some point?

I feel the need to point out that the Accords in Civil War is never about superhero registration. That doesn’t come up in the movie AT ALL.

I know you all care what I think, so I will be ranking the Hugo and Nebula novel nominees, as usual. I just need to read all of them first and I have only read (I think) 3.7 out of ten so far.

*sees comments getting shuttered across the Gizmodoverse*

I don’t know, man. DC has always been doing retcons so it’s... less jarring when they do it for the 27th time.

It is incredible. The sleazebag ‘hero’, the sudden hard turn over to introducing an ex-military militia group, just the whole disgusting addictive grossness of the stuff itself...rewatched it a year or two ago after having not seen it in decades and wow does it ever hold up as certifiably fucking batshit but fun

funny enough i watched The Stuff last night on Pluto, and that was a weird ass movie.

Yeah, I think the point is that the Sads are (mostly) SF fans and writers who like 1950s/1960s SF - some are literally the same people who didn’t like the original New Wave before I was born in the 1970s - and think that most SF fans agree with them and couldn’t understand why these other books that aren’t their sort…

I know, because I was one of those angry young white guy misfits when I started reading “real” SF (as opposed to media tie-ins) around 1986 or so, when I was a high school freshman who was unhealthily into Harlan Ellison. The genre had diversified a bit since my dad’s days, there were a lot more women writing SF, but…

You’re not moving in with the authors, but reading a novel is a bigger investment of time and mental energy than picking something at random off Netflix. I’ve always been very curious about the political views of the novelists I read, because books don’t get written in a vacuum, and they don’t get read in one either.…