Yes of course, and that’s what I’m used too*. But “don’t have to” and “must absolutely not” aren’t the same thing. I’ve discovered SNL very recently (I’m not a US forumer), and while I find the humour a bit hit and miss, I’m impressed by how they manage to morph an actor’s face into their impersonated celebrity. It’s…

I agree all the more so as the vast majority of superhero comic books I’ve read are themselves largely conservative.

Did he really use to be Jack Harkness ?

Way to spoil it. Thanks.

Depends on what you mean with “possibly”. We watch a lot of fake suspense where the hero (James Bond, Indiana Jones, Batman, Disaster movie guy who takes things in charge and helps his wife even though they were about to divorce because he was at work during his kid’s anniversary baseball school play) can “possibly”…

1) So the phosphine thing on Venus looks more serious than I thought. I now expect probes to bring us back some interestingly deadly strains of space mosquitoes.

Let’s just say that if D’Arcy Carden doesn’t get anything, tables will be flipped.

I was about to say “big screen” vs “small screen” but now that we watch netflix/amazon productions on home projectors it’s also a fragile distinction...

They have considered that Biden might win.

Is “look i’m chris rock lol” the same thing as “look i’m black lol” ?

Thing is, Villeneuve’s Dune also somewhat resembles Frank Herbert’s Dune. And Jodorowsky’s project (as cool and stimulating as it could have been) really didn’t. To the point where I wondered what was the point of basing it on Dune.

Quite the opposite of my Camp Arachnean, then.

This will be interesting. Challenger had a chapter in Christian Morel’s excellent little book on “Absurd decisions”, where he studied contexts that favor systemic mistakes and lead to ridiculous situations or catastrophes that would seem obvious to prevent in retrospect.

The issue is not the Trump in the White House. The issue is the 62,984,828 other trumps who find him awesome. They don’t find him awesome out of ignorance for whatever Woodward (or others) would reveal. They don’t find him awesome “despite” what is reproached to him. 

It doesn’t. Not by itself, not in a vacuum, not by principle. Everything and anything can be perverted, subverted and misused. Writers imagination is about exploring the gaps and the cracks of these possibles, going the “what if” of all combinations and possibilities. And having a character mislead people on their…

No, I agree with you. I enjoy stories where “my” good guys identities are used as covers or tools for bad guys. I like the fact that Dirty Harry’s Scorpio is donning a peace symbol, or that Escape From LA’s baddie is dressed up as some Che Guevara. I like James Ellroy protagonists who don’t magically escape the 50's…

I haven’t seen it but it is now my favorite movie ever.

And I assume you speak for the USA.

Yeah. I’m significantly less optimistic than you about the elections results (my comment applies whoever wins), but Stone’s exhortation is indeed one of the reasons why I expect Trump’s ousting not to go very smoothly.