I always speculated that the sauce was what set the McRib apart, and saucy indeed this sandwich was. But Pagán was quick to point out this was more of a quantity over quality situation: you’ll end up with sauce all over your hands and face, but the taste was weak and seemingly not as tangy or memorable as McDonald’s…

My roommate used to work at a McDonald’s, and he’s very quick to point out that the only thing less-appetizing (in his opinion) than a McRib is what the patties look like without the sauce.

One thing I’m really enjoying about the show is the way it’s nailing an element of the Matt Fraction run that a lot of people seem to be missing as an element of the comic. A big part of that era, especially as it goes on, is Hawkeye struggling with depression and how that struggle affects his mentorship of Kate. Now,…

Don’t quote me on this because I can’t recall the exact source off-hand, but I read that if you dig down into the actual data we have on Omicron so far, you find that might actually be the case. It seems to be an extremely mild variant but very transmissible. Unfortunately, there are a handful of individuals…

That tracks with what I’ve heard, I just wasn’t confident enough to extensively reference something I read literally years ago.

I think that sentence is supposed to be read “WIRED reports that a small startup called Kytch sold to Taylor, the manufacturer of the soft serve machines, a small device allowing workers to hack into the machines and diagnose the problems.”

WIRED reports that a small startup called Kytch sold a small device allowing workers to hack into the machines and diagnose the problems to Taylor, the manufacturer of the soft serve machines.

Some fun Doctor Who trivia: Robert Bathurst also plays a pretty prominent recurring role in the “Doom Coalition” audio play series from Big Finish, featuring the Eighth Doctor (played by Paul McGann).

A three-year time jump could be a huge opportunity for the show to move its characters forward or deepen their relationships in unexpected ways. Instead the jump feels arbitrary and underutilized—it might as well have been six months as three years.

Ah, but he’s not just taking over. He’s got a deal with the Sontarans. He gets them in the door, they do the heavy work, he’s probably expecting to live easy on the last planet in the universe, inevitably one will double-cross the other.

The Division stuff feels like the most waste since we spent so long introducing them and suddenly Swarm and Azure walk into the room and kill Tectuen. Maybe this would feel more meaningful if we had spent more time with the Division or we knew what the hell Swarm and Azure were up to.

Yoko herself in the past has talked about how John basically refused to let her out of his sight if he could help it.

I was thinking that, too (I just couldn’t think of a simple way to articulate it in the moment), and I’d be willing to bet that if it wasn’t deliberate, the writers realized it happened to line up well and kept it in.

The main thing Chibnall’s been missing in his episodes is “letting people other than him write things.” He’s put way too much time and energy into justifying writing credits on basically every episode of his run when he’s just not good at that part of it. It’s not as bad as some of the drek he wrote on Torchwood, but…

True. But it was a simple test to see if she’d been in Armand’s apartment at all. It wouldn’t be a guarantee one way or the other. I’m not saying he kept the candy just in case someone who’d been there would turn up, just that he had the opportunity. The only thing he risked is looking like the sort of person who…

I think it’s the context of the Ronin persona, really. I mean, that wasn’t him assassinating targets under some misguided/conditioned ideal of a greater good, but really taking out his anger on people he could justify killing. Any wetwork he did with SHIELD was assassination, but as Ronin he was practically a serial…

Earlier than that. His literal first on-screen appearance is getting into position to kill Thor if Fury says the word.

Given the state that Black Widow’s Taskmaster is in in the movie, it would also be simple enough to have the character develop into a more comics-accurate portrayal over time without all the mind control and such.

I haven’t played it myself, but “Was this worth the money I paid for it” is a viable factor into a review. And for a lot of people, “Was it worth $30?” is a different question from “Was it worth $60?” I’ve played (and reviewed) my share of games where I was like “I’m glad I got this on sale, because while I definitely…

By the way, that phone call with Clint and Laura, probably done with Renner and Cardellini speaking lines to some assistant director weeks apart and in separate locations, did more for their relationship than Whedon’s “I’ve always supported your Avenging!”