IMO this is good practice when the context potentially changes the meaning of the statement, but pointlessly nitpicky in most cases, and certainly in a headline. Just like [sic]ing a typo, it’s usually better to just silently correct/normalize it.

Moore, along with his wife and their partner, did set up their own self-publishing company for a while, Mad Love. He lost it when they both left him.

That’s not correct. The Kon-Tiki expedition was about his theory that Polynesia (and in particular the Easter Island) was originally settled from South America rather than from Asia. Incidentally, recent genetic evidence indicates that although the theory is wrong in general, there apparently was some contact between…

I think that’s quite unfair to Heyerdahl. His theory has been largely refuted (and was ill-founded in the first place), but it was hardly offensive, and the Kon-Tiki expedition was not recklessly dangerous — at least not more than any crossing of the Pacific by sail.

D’oh! Thanks for the correction.

That would make sense, if not for the fact that bounty hunters have been using those same exact trackers on all the bounties in the series so far!

My pet theory is that Riz Ahmed has invented a midichlorian sensor, and it points to Baby Yoda because he’s so incredibly strong in the Force. (And the plan they had for him was to somehow extract them and inject them into Werner Herzog.)

I guess I’m a little confused about how our Mandalorian thought Baby Yoda could stay in one place permanently. He knew about the bounty hunters and the trackers, so until that is resolved somehow, isn’t it obvious that they’ll always need to keep moving?

What I think is fundamentally unbelievable is that humanity would unite in solidarity against the alien menace. In other words, that Veidt’s plan would work in the first place.

Which requires a giant suspension of disbelief.

The problem is that if the video exists and is known to a group of people, it is (as shown in the show) bound to come out.

So a lot of you just straight up missed when he said he was recording the video before the attack happened, right?

More so than being out of character for Veidt (which it definitely is), it was just not good writing. The exposition—and especially exposition about things from the comic—is Watchmen’s weak spot.

That’s the “American Hero Story” show-within-the-show, though, and the episode goes out of its way to demonstrate that it gets a lot of stuff wrong. It’s even interrupted by Laurie calling it garbage.

Yes, I can see his plan starting to fall apart and him having to revise it on the fly. However, that’s not what this video shows. It is (at least according to what he claims) recorded before the squid attack even happens.

It’s amazing to me that a show that is so good so much of the time can be so bad at exposition.

There have been a number of Nobel Laureates who worked partly in the sci-fi genre: Kipling, Lagerlöf, Shaw… Most notably, Herman Hesse won the prize largely on the strength of his sci-fi novel The Glass Bead Game. Though I don’t know that any of them wrote science fiction poetry, and almost certainly not at book-length…

As others have said, removing Donald Trump isn’t really the main issue here, but to defend the concept that the president is not above the law, free to abuse the power of the office to ensure their reelection.

What the hell, America?

does that sort of un-Hippocratic moralism extend to the veterinary profession?