Messiah was my favorite of the six. Everyone is all “Oh, God Emperor was the tits.” No. Messiah actually got to its point, so it wins. It’s a bit incomplete as a story without Children of, though. I thought the syfy version’s approach of putting Messiah and Children of together was smart.

Honestly it was the speech that killed it for me, though the abusive staff stories caused serious side-eye. I figured, hey, she may well be a monster but there might also be other explanations, like double standards and partisan muckracking, so maybe wait and see.

“We believe that the purpose of science is to serve mankind. You, however, seem to regard science as some kind of dodge, or hustle. Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy, and your conclusions are highly questionable: You. are. a. pooooooor scientist, Dr. Venkman!”

“If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.” 

The gaming club at my uni called it Lawful Awful.

It turns out the Republican is also a racist. Wild times.

Yeah, uh, Fredoevych Trumpkin definitely didn’t invent the strategy of weathering a scandal instead of buckling like a worn-out belt. History, it turns out, extends back pretty far beyond November 2016.

Unfortunately that’s not how any of this works. The position will be filled, with or without your voting input.

“I gotta tell ya, I’m pissed.”

When it comes to right-wing conspiracy theories, it turns out the only winning move is not to play.

Celebrities, especially dumb ones, need to stay in their lane and not talk.

Well, Liam isn’t an elected leader and holds far less political power. Those are reasons to treat them differently. If your next door neighbor smokes weed all day every workday, it’s a different thing than when your kid’s kindergarten teacher does. We’re not entitled to care about the first, but we damn sure are the…

That’s Kurtwood “President of the United Federation of Planets” Smith to you!

I’m gonna go ahead and preface this by saying that Northam must resign, and that’s mostly a political calculation, but its logic is basically irresistible. What follows is mostly about how folks are coming to approach and talk about the whole holding-public-figures-to-account thing, generally, and how thoroughly…

She apologized directly and personally to those who claimed to be harmed. Anyone else not a direct party to the original kerfuffle asserting a claim upon the apology is peddling pre-textual garbage to either feed a ghoulish voyeuristic need for moral flagellation or extend their pathetic unlife as a crass political…

Vicious public hate is often very confusing.

...because of the look on Gowron’s face...

The crazy eye is from mom, but the lazy eye is from dad.

Southland Tales is much like David Lynch’s Dune, in that it is more fascinating than successful, with a great cast who are obviously very confused about the whole project, but still give it their all and thus provide many fine moments in isolation that don’t quite come together. Some of the individual sequences and…

“I was promised a taco truck on every corner! Every corner!”