I’m just happy this is coming in at a size and price that a normal family budget can acommodate. TLG seem to be making everything bigger and bigger lately.

Yeah, the “dad can’t parent” trope needs to die quietly. It might have been funny and fresh, even provocative at one point, but it’s so freaking tired now. Personally, I’ve been “Mr. Mom” for the last 16 years and dads can parent just fine, thank you.

It’s a great show and the art is certainly amazing, but for me it hasn’t had any of the standout episodes that made LOK and ATLA so mindblowingly good. It’s still something I look forward to, but it’s not “get the whole family together and watch four hours of Korra” good.

Me too. I don’t know if it’s Korra level, but I love it.

I always recommend Warm Bodies. I have won so many believers in that movie. Nicholas Hoult is phenomenal.

I’m seeing a lot of people saying people didn’t know Blade was a Marvel hero, was just marketed as an action movie, etc. And I’m sorry but I have to call BS on all that. Superhero movies just weren’t as big a scene then, and Blade is definitely a second-tier hero, no argument about that. But he was still known, and…

I feel like an all-bard party would be a great role-playing opportunity if the DM prepared an adventure appropriate for the party. Just throwing a bunch of minstrels at a standard D&D adventure is, unfortunately, more of a suicide mission.

Chris Columbus has a long history of great work and starting brand name franchises? News to me. I thought he had a long history of shoddy, thoroughly mediocre work and almost killing great franchises. He did the awful Percy Jackson adaptations, he made the two worst Harry Potter movies, Christmas with the Kranks, the…

Um, the White Wolf has been around for over twenty years. You might want to actually read the comics.

That’s exactly how I’ve always felt about it. We got one damn good season and a movie that worked very well as a closer. Compare that to, say, Trek, where no matter what your favorite is you probably had as many boring episodes as good ones and two bad movies for every good one, and you’ll feel better about Firefly’s…

I mean, that right there is a better story than at least two of the Iron Man movies. The only problem is it’s bleak AF and I think Disney just loathes bleak. The MCU is not in the business of making people have uncomfortable thoughts. They want a movie where it’s absolutely great that we have super-powered soldiers…

Seriously, with all due respect to Reggie Hudlin he’s barely qualified to write footnotes for Christopher Priest’s BP run. I would bet solid money that if Priest had never written Enemy of the State, we would NOT be going to see a BP movie next week. One of the greatest comic book pleasures of the last few years has…

It definitely wouldn’t be the hill I’d want to die on. I do think it’s funny, because back in the day this was a thing commented on by a lot of science fiction readers in the vein of “here’s another thing Star Wars messed up the science on!” But in the years since then, Star Wars has become such a force in science…

Tony Todd elevates everything he’s in. It’s crazy how many basic throwaway roles he takes in genre shows and movies and just OWNS every one of them. He’s one of the all-time great “Special Guest Stars”.

This may not alleviate all of the concerns, but there are four or five South African artists featured on the soundtrack as well as the American guests. And I know, people are going to start going “South Africa isn’t the REAL Africa” again, but yes, it’s an African country with immigrant populations from all over the…

Star Wars fans make EVERYTHING more toxic. You can’t fucking win with them anymore. Your movie is pretty much guaranteed to be either too much like the old movies or not enough like the old movies, rehashing everything we’ve seen before or straying way too far from WHAT STAR WARS REALLY IS. No matter which way you go…

But android isn’t a synonym for robot. It’s a specific kind of robot, one with a human appearance. Data is an android. The Westworld staff are androids. R2-D2 is definitely not one. He’s just a robot.

It’s definitely a high-water mark in practical effects.

Bilbo Baggins, followed shortly afterwards by Frodo. Because I was a tiny slip of a thing, often overlooked and never picked for sports teams at school (with good reason, since I was fucking terrible at every sport ever invented) and the idea that little people could be just as brave and matter just as much as great…

What, was “droid” for robots just too obvious?