Wait, in a good way or a bad way? Arrrrgh… (or is that "Arrrr…"?)

TV: I've been working through the second season of Black Sails. So…this show isn't very good, but I can't help but enjoy watching it. It's got the right amount of setting, plus some pretty magnetic (though thinly-written) characters. It helps that, every once in a while, there's an episode that's actually good,…

I'm stealing from somebody in a below comment: His Dark Materials. Yes, I'm religious, so that's part of it, but Pullman's railing against religion seems built on the surface arguments of people who just post quotes from Patton Oswalt or whoever about why religion is bad, and there's no nuance. Also, his rendition…

I think the thing I was really happy about was seeing things finally, finally turn around for the worse for Dany. Benioff & Weiss have been in love with her for ages, and it's great to finally have them show off her fallibility. There's still a lot of messiah-ness to it (it's cast very much in a light of "I'm doing…

Gotcha. Thanks!

Gotcha. It just came across more as "He's got the job, not you, so step off" to me. Thanks!

So…I got nothing sexist from Kevan grounding it in any kind of sexist terms (unless I missed something or didn't hear a line, which is entirely possible). More, his emphasis on "The king" with everything he said was more "I'm not falling for your garbage."

He wasn't really, though. He's kinda become that, but, originally, he was basically a carbon-copy of Spider-Man to replicate that character's success (also: it was easier to copy one of the characters they already own because they were having to constantly crank out new characters in order to just keep their…

Screw you, Chuck!

…why couldn't Dan Harmon have had his way and gotten to write him out after the first season.

It's finally a 4-day weekend for me! I've needed that.

And support her in all that, too.

Mine is pretty easy: Superman. Be good to as many as people as possible, help anyone you can, be an example/ideal for others? Nailed it. And that's not just a good man, that's a good person.

So I've been reading Ready Player One, and, while it's a pretty impressive book, I'm struggling with the narrator being incredibly, incredibly shallow. I kinda feel like that's part of the point, but he hits so many of the other "ideal nerd" reference points, and, honestly, his shallowness is really his only weakness,…

Honestly, since part of Martin's work habit is to not write while going out and doing conventions or press tours or interviews, a consortium agreement of every single arm of the entertainment industry agreeing to not call him at all for any reason so he can write already is gonna need to come together, isn't it? …

Well, hey, between that and the editor's inane "Hey, there should be 8 books, right, Germie!?!" comment that she put up on Twitter or whatever…yeah, no, she shouldn't be allowed to be in charge of this at all. Like, ever.

Watching: The Lady Vanishes. Got the Criterion for Christmas, and I probably haven't watched this since I was a kid. I kinda love its quaintness (one of the main characters is a governess! People are desperate to know about cricket matches, so much that they'll interrupt other people's long-distance phone calls!),…

To be fair, I'm sure most of the decision wasn't "Oh, no, terrorists!", but rather being all "Mannn, a bunch of people think terrorists are gonna blow up our theaters if we show thIs, so then we won't make any money. Cut the dead weight!"

Wait…no real ties? His wife's from Chicago. He's got a pretty long history of a love affair with the city, even premiering his big mid-prequel trilogy in the Museum of Science & Industry. That's…such a WEIRD thing to say.

Just finished it today, and it was fun. Not my favorite Scalzi (I think that goes to The Last Colony still), but definitely a fun diversion. I mean, the plot's a very typical airport thriller, but it gets more aplomb due to its writer's style and the world that gets built.