I just hit episode 8 last night too and MAN are things starting to kick into high gear. That chase sequence was just fantastic.

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I think the actual prevailing logic goes "Boys don't watch cartoons with girls in them and girls don't buy toys, so why would we make cartoons for them?"
This is why Young Justice got cancelled: Appealing too much to those non-purchasing gross girls.

Warning: It's a bummer.

Nathan Rabin writes for Longreads about leaving The Dissolve: http://blog.longreads.com/2…

That seems to be the general consensus. From what I've read it seems to be: Paper-thin characters, barely there plot, but cool ideas and well staged CGI action.

Britain: Exploiting Poor People For Entertainment Since The Romans Left.

Yeah, and they really do establish the characters' and their conflicts very clearly in those first few episodes, which is no mean feat considering they're also setting up the mythology and have 8 characters to handle.

Faraci called it a "a generic bore" and a "flat bottle of soda", so at least someone had a strong reaction either way.

Yeah, it's the intersection between the character's arcs and the mystery where it gets real interesting for me. I agree that the character work is a sometimes a little unsubtle, but I kinda appreciate that they've got a lot of ground they want to cover so those first episodes were about laying the groundwork.…

His soundtrack work on Cloud Atlas is also fantastic, to say nothing of his direction.

Yes to everything these people said. After you're done Mort, I recommend continuing the Death series with Reaper Man, then Soul Music, etc. The sub-series within Discworld are a great way to explore the world. You're bound to meet characters or concepts you wanna know more about, and there's bound to be a book that…

I'm a big fan of the Death books, particularly Mort, Reaper Man and Soul Music. That's a great little self-contained trilogy.

I'm only two episodes in (so this may change when I catch up with y'all) but so far I don't think we're supposed to care about the central "mystery". It's more a device to link these characters. We're supposed to be invested in their individual stories and characters, and how their newfound connection changes them. So…

Wicked. I'm getting my hopes pretty high here. Hopefully they won't be dashed on a Prometheus-sized rock.
It looks like he does do some wicked sciencing, it was more the phrasing that made my eyes roll.

Looks surprisingly promise for a Scott movie, though "science the shit out of it" made me roll my eyes SO hard. I'm intrigued by how you stage a rogue space mission with nasa equipment without nasa's approval!

I have never seen a single episode. Not through lack of interest, just through lack of time. Maybe after I finish Sense8?

This is the most brutal cliffhanger ever to go unresolved. That show was working towards an amazing reveal and an even more amazing S3, only to be cut down by idiots.

Wow. Just watched the first episode of Sense8. What a thing. Love the scope, love the ideas. Hasn't quite come together yet, but I'm definitely hooked.

Exactly. We're entering relationships that are in progress, that have a real history to them. Lorelai was a kid when she had Rory, when she was kicked out of her house. Her relationship with her parents was frozen, in a sense, by these events, and it's only as the series starts that it starts to thaw out. We're seeing…