I have to disagree on the universe. I think there were plenty of interesting stories to tell and worlds to explore in a post-Reaper Milky Way. Pick a canonical ending, fast forward 50 or 100 years and keep exploring this big, weird, wonderful setting you’ve established.

Yeah, that was a moment that lost me. I liked it a lot and I thought Ego was hitting all the right notes — smooth operator, laid-back veneer over an insane megalomaniacal agenda — and then he came in way too strong with that. In my view, we didn’t need any connection between him and the mother’s death. His plan to…

I did think it was cool when that droid went into a racist diatribe against the black Jedi quarterback.

Why *should* you be able to intentionally foul to put a team on the line when trailing, though? A foul isn’t supposed to trigger a strategic change of possession. It’s supposed to penalize you for breaking the rules. Any other outcome is a loophole, and I’m all for closing them.

McDonalds cuts you a check.

That’s the thing about early double-digit leads in NBA games: They always hold up.

In addition to extracting concessions on marijuana testing, there’s an added layer of cynicism in trotting the Stern Conservative Dad line of arguments against weed for an audience of Stern Conservative Dad Customers who get a half-chub from the idea of telling young men (especially young black men) to stay away from…

That sequence and general exposition dump was doubly disappointing to me because I thought they did an exceptionally slick job with the ant/fungus sequence explaining the Shadow King and its relationship with David without going overboard. We didn’t need to know its entire backstory with his father, and we certainly…

As opposed to the non-cult ones organized around the veneration of one specific person who, depending on your flavor, is so important there’s a half-naked sculpture of him in every room of every building, or so holy  you have to die if you draw a picture of him.

I mean, I was raised in an organization that passed around a collection basket once a week so the dead son of the omnipotent man who lives in the sky would save me from sexy thoughts with the blessing of his virgin mom, so I’m not exactly clear on the distinction.

The only version of JW I would have really cared for was one in which the dinosaurs got loose and killed the main characters in the remote pars of the island, but the tourists were oblivious, security shot the dinos and they kept the park open. But I don’t think America was ready for that one.

Yes, exactly. I was thinking: Would you ask the same of a practicing Catholic, whose church can be tied to every bad thing under the sun? As far as I can tell, she isn’t preaching it. She isn’t trying to convert me or hiding messages about it in her work. She isn’t working to ruin anyone’s life. She’s just living her…

Thank you. To me, this is what the Berry Tramel question from the other night to Adams was getting it. Many people dismissed it as “his teammates are trash and that’s why they’re bad when he sits.”

His teammates might be trash. I think there’s evidence to suggest that at least some of them — Adams, Gibson, Oladipo,…

This is workable, but I’m still left wondering: why? What dramatic advantages does this confer over improving and optimizing ground transportation using the same principles — automation, constant optimization and route control, sensible mass transit, cutting-edge infrastructure. It’s fun to think about, but it also…

But, do they suck? Like, Steve Adams was a goddamn Titan against Golden State last year. Oladipo, Kanter and Gibson are not bad players. Maybe the question could have been framed better — “why do good players play badly when Russ isn’t out there?” — but I’m genuinely curious to know if there’s an added effect to him…

This is just about as premature and wishful as speculation gets, but: Roger Federer winning the French Open would be the most mind-melting reversal of fortunes in the history of the sport, no? 

Noticed the headline change away from the “commits” language, which was the responsible thing to do. Would be nice to see a little tag explaining why, but kudos for listening to whomever pointed it out.

This is all true, BUT: they make that money from people whose identity and self-worth is to some extent based in the team. That’s the whole business model. So you want to walk the fine line between “in this together” and “fuck off if you don’t still love us unconditionally.”

Not content with beating Tom Brady in two Super Bowls, Eli also vowed to produce an even stupider text-driven scandal with his equipment manager.

As a Westbrook detractor (in the sense that I don’t think he’s the runaway best player in the league of all time, which I realize qualifies as climate change denial around here), I really don’t understand why people fumble so much making the case against him: Nearly everything he does is based on volume.