I'm still… if not addicted to, then very much into the Marvel Puzzle Quest mobile game. I was inordinately happy this morning when a modern Cyclops dropped from my Galactus event recruit token. And if that previous sentence wasn't nerdy enough, I'm going to spend most of the weekend on research, mapping Fighting…

I assme she was drawing way back on her experience as a puppet's love interest in Howard the Duck.

You can date my childhood by the fact that if someone says they watched both muppet movies, I automatically assume they've seen Christmas Carol and Treasure Island.

Brooklyn 99 also had the advantage that its showrunners had cut their teeth on Parks and Rec, so there was an understanding from the get-go on how to optimize comedic ensemble casts. (Having great comedic actors helped too)

“Hayley [sic] and Alex’s relationship statuses go back and forth between hot and cold as the summer comes to a close.”

I haven't seen the film, so I think that all works out *nods*. That does scan with everything I've heard about the film. The book is a lot more about the philosophical side of the world Heinlein's constructed, where citizenship is tied directly to voluntary military service, so the emphasis on military fraternity is…

TV: I caught up on the new Regular Show, The Dome Experiment, in which the gang is trapped under a dome for a month. They all band together and become better people, except for Benson, who becomes a Rambo-like figure obsessed with proving that he didn't get the date on the dome commencement wrong. There's some pretty…

It's worth it! The combat system is fairly similar, as is the interface. In terms of world-building, there's a lot of heavy lifting the game has to do to replace the lore that was built into the D&D-based games, but then again, it can also do some things (well, one for sure) that they'd never have gotten away with in…

Me, immediately after the credits start rolling: Oh, ICE. T. I get it!

Film: Watched the first hour of the first Mad Max movie with a friend. It's a very bizarre movie if, like me, your only other experience of the franchise is Fury Road, because while it's still technically dystopian sci-fi, it's near future—as in, basically what we have now (well, now thirty years ago), but with more…

This is more a drive-by comment than a sustained thought, but what I was immediately reminded of is the real estate options in the Fable series. I wonder if it can be attributed to a similar kind of fantasy.

Yes! She's Colonel Tigh's wife, Ellen Tigh.

I was kind of disappointed Gaeta didn't have any scenes with ex-Councillor Sydney to have a BSG reunion.
I'm two episodes into season 2. I won't say anything other than the show gets a little A Boy and His Dog, which is the best possible thing for a post-apocalypse show to get.

I like other things I've read by Scalzi, and his blog is consistently one of my favorite online, but I wasn't a big fan of Redshirts—about halfway through the book, there's a big tonal shift, and I found what came after to be less compelling.

I think part of my problem is I've been reading via a tiny Kindle, which can make reading long things worse. I'll try reading in print, and see what happens.

That's fair—it gets very sidhe and never really moves from that. But I'm generally down for any urban fantasy that doesn't mention a romance plotline or musical instrument-based magic.

I've heard of Swift and Slimi, but Castor's the only one I've read. Good books—Mike Carey writes a lot of weird stuff and I find he's almost always worth checking out; one of the first nonsuperhero comics I read was his My Faith in Frankie, which is tonally about as far from Castor (YA coming of age with gods) as you…

I discovered the series a few weeks ago and burned through them in time to read Veiled when it came out but… yeah. It's a good Dresden Files-like series with its own twist, but it's been building to Richard's Big Move for a long time.

This is my guilty pleasure show right now. I'm seven episodes in. Without getting too spoilery, so far, my favorite bit is the firework show, and how they used the aftermath of that to add some dimensions to some characters that were previously fairly one note. The show was originally described to me as one where the…

I always wanted to get into the Malazan books, but the length of the series and individual books have put me off. Well, that and I keep accidentally calling it the Marzipan series. But maybe I should give it a fair try.