To be fair, I hear that most people only use 10% of their brain when watching it

Whoa: Great retro-pulpy premise AND Javier Grillo Marxuach? I'm absolutely there.

…and by knocking almost all her major competitors ("Three Body Problem," "My Real Children," "Station Eleven," etc, etc) off the ballot, they have almost certainly handed her the award.

The unwritten rules of community protecting the Hugo Awards had worked almost perfectly (the Scientologists did manage to logroll Hubbard's "Mission Earth" onto the ballot — where it got trounced, of course — in the late '80s) for SIXTY YEARS, so it's pretty hard to excoriate the administrators and voting community…

Speaking of Whedon and existentially ludicrous sequels, is this a good place to admit that I spent the better part of an evening thinking of at least five or six different entry points for a Cabin in the Woods sequel?