Either shellacking or spackling. She gave the dude a shellacking with the bat, and spackled over the holes in her soul.

I suppose Fight Club is old enough that spoiler alerts aren’t required, not that I was interested in it anyway. Also, it never occurred to me that American Psycho had an unreliable narrator; it always just seemed like a crappy movie about hateful people and a couple of hours I’ll never get back.

That’s the ratio I remember. And deuces, not knaves. Technically aces, but powers that aren’t worth much.

Safe from flooding, maybe. Maybe not so safe from the tens of thousands of ravenous zombies. Although, to be fair, I don’t suppose we know exactly how many zombies are locked away under the Greenland ice, either...

Even the finale: “return 0".

I figure this is Yara’s version of “maybe the horse will learn to sing”. I mean, “We do not sow” doesn’t lend itself to giving up reaving, raping, and pillaging, but Yara desperately needs Dany and there’s time enough for things to change before Yara needs to try enforcing those strictures, if she even wants to.

Spidey working for Tony seemed a little odd to me too, but there are several good reasons why a naive and enthusiastic teenager would fall in with the “wrong crowd”. Who knows, maybe we’ll see some disillusionment with Stark in the Spidey solo movie. (Which reminds me, I could’ve done without the ham-fisted “Spiderman…

You aren’t using the right bait.

“two out of three games”: No, it’s three out of four. The contest was already decided before Lee Sedol won his first game. Tonight’s game will finish the series. (Just a quibble, it doesn’t impact the other points.)

I suppose if Jon dies and is reborn, he’s no longer bound by his oath to the Night’s Watch. Long live the new Lord of Winterfell?

Or they could’ve given him an old Korean mentor and filed fewer numbers off The Destroyer, but Marvel cared more about that in the ‘70s. (By the time they got to The Punisher they cared a lot less, or maybe the Pendleton estate did.)

I’ll have to look for this. Not just because, well, it’s Allen Steele, but also for the nod to Stephen Robinette’s pseudonym. “Hak Tallus”, really?

I’m not sure ‘loved it’ would cover my reaction. I thought it was extremely effective and well-done. Unfortunately, I also found it very triggery and spent half the film wishing I was anywhere else and hoping my heart wouldn’t stop. Have the DVD, haven’t been able to bring myself to watch it.

I’ve watched most of these, and mostly agree. But The Librarians... the two hour pilot had some potential, but every time things started to build, Noah Wylie would show up and kill all the momentum. I just can’t do that one. Too many good shows around without putting my eyes on a bad wannabe-David-Tennant’s-Doctor who…

That was basically my take on the spy, too; he gave an additional POV for Eros, and gave non-readers a little teaser on the protomolecule. But maybe they’ll get some use out of him next season.

I loved the Mantis pilot. A little edgy, which is a good thing. Then the series was greenlit, and the strong brilliant black lead just became some thug in a suit actually built and maintained by a white man. I have to admit I didn’t bother with it too much after I saw the retooled premiere.

Book 5? I thought it was just a trilogy plus a prequel. Guess I need to get up-to-date.

They really don’t waste much time handholding the viewer. I’m definitely going to need to rewatch the first two later in the week to pick up what I missed the first go-round. Plus the actors seemed to be a little mumbly, unless that’s just my failing ears.

Wylie is the reason I gave up on the show after the pilot, especially given his complete lack of chemistry with Rebecca Romijn. The rest of it seemed goofily engaging.

You used “dark and gritty” and “the Flash” in the same sentence; I’m not sure you know what those even mean.