Abdul Al-Hazred was so misunderstood.

I don’t think the plot puts it any differently. There’s one hero, who incarnates The Values, and satellite characters around him : the loyal crew, whose members become better people at his contact, and, if female and attractive, fall in love with him.

Nearing the end of the Expanse tv show. Mostly enjoyable, but cheesier than ever. It’s really the same quality of plot as my own teenage self-invented stories, written or drawn, which generates a bit of condescension in me. As if the pen behind it was too familiar, it echoes the cheap self-satisfaction I remember from…

I grasp the specific brand of conservative, enforced, denialism and its murderous toll on social, humanitarian and ecological levels. But denial is a complicated matter, and I’m not certain its drive is always as evil as its outcome (there is an unbearable psychological and social cost, sometimes, for facing some…

Hm. I’m not entirely convinced. I’ve harmed enough people through my own alienating grief to be fully judgemental on that. And I suspect the politics of nostalgia is more complicated than that. But on the other hand I don’t want that comment to stay grey.

Woah, it means we can republish the old batman and joker comics at last ?

Hahn seemed to be spending almost all of her time just...standing still in midair, moving very little, to the point where I was wondering if her harness was too tight.

I really really liked the first half of The Hateful Eight, with the tension, the mystery, the secrets, the deductions... And then it became whatever the Tarantino public demands, throwing all of it away, and turning into a slaughterthon where none of the first half matters.

I half forgive that sky beam for at least having a limited height this time.

That’s what Agatha was hoping to learn.

I took it as some dr Manhattan multitasking.

Marvel wouldn’t blame her for that.

Wanda is supposed to be this horrible evil that’s destined to destroy the Earth, but we saw no hints of that in the show. If Agatha hadn’t said anything we would have no reason to believe that Wanda is going to become some huge threat. You need to show, not tell.

1) Pew pew. Pew pew pew. Pew.

Ehhhh, there were savage cannibalistic tribes in real life I don’t think that’s “deeply racist” when the movie isn’t positing the British are super superior

She does address that when she points out that you cannot reproach someone to speak out “too late” or use time as a reason of distrust. People process what they have endured at their own pace, even if with frustrating results (being silent when it would have helped most, or, the opposite, refusing to speak out when…

Aw. Don’t discourage Snyder.

“Satanic worship meetings” with anchovies.

Yes. That’s how you explain the screams to those in the waiting room. It’s all part of the conspiracy.

Dunno. The main appeal of Pacific Rim (apart from the deliciously bombastic soundtrack) is seeing giant robots in ‘live’, realistic-looking format, as opposed to the million drawings of them we’ve seen, especially in the anime genre.