Ancient Greece and Rome were also built on slavery; what does that mean for toga parties or any of the thousands of ways in which we celebrate Classical civilization?

If you read the review, you’ll see that one of the criticisms is that it seems targeted more at parents than children.

Why not just make a physical plaque or something as a certificate of provenance, rather than this fucking blockchain waste of energy nonsense?

there was nothing in the episodes leading up to Pietro’s appearance that suggested anything related to mutants or the X-Men.

A number of years ago I did a month-long binge watch of most of the Disney canon, and The Rescuers really stood out. It was much better than I expected.

From what I’ve heard from friends still active on the studio level, things are getting better.

I hope they will explain at some point how Clark’s Y chromosome, clearly passed down to both of his two sons just by their gender, would make one son half-Kryptonian with powers and the other half-Kryptonian without.

This sounds excellent, thanks for the recommendation!

If nothing else, Kenan has a lifetime pass for What’s Up With That?

I also love Rey’s visit to the cave of mirrors, and her psychic conversations with Kylo Ren.

The prequels at least had some great designs in ships, costumes and settings like the city of Theed and the palace on Naboo, our first look at Coruscant, Mustafar, Utapau, etc. That universe actually felt lived in.

As the season unfolded, the series remained too tied to established history to really take flight.

Well, my point was that it’s not necessarily a refusal to deal with rejection in a story sense, or character-identification sense (though of course, there’s plenty of that too), but a sense that the game is not playing fair as a game.

I think this comes down to a question of viewing games through a story lens or a gameplay lens.

Hey, if there’s a child who eats lizard people, I want to be in their cult too. (No offense to your avatar.)

And the real world is 16:9?

Marathoning Mission: Impossible movies (at least the first… four?) makes it pretty conspicuous how IMF appears to be an intelligence agency devoted almost exclusively to countering the threat of rogue IMF agents.

It really is an excellent and essential book for anybody with an interest in the movie, with many fascinating anecdotes.

If I understand the Hertz scale correctly, that’s a vibration/wave that repeats once every five seconds, right? It seems almost meaningless (and physically extremely dubious) to talk about “holding a note” of that frequency: it is not a sound in human terms.

Can’t believe the review doesn’t mention the bit where Mulligan goes space crazy and Fiennes has to chop off her arm. (The best part of The Dig is piecing together alien skeletons.)