The Medusa head-shaving scene from Ep. 1 is one of the most hilarious things that’s been on TV this year.

I agree that Momoa was perfectly cast. It made the movie’s shitiness all the more heart-breaking. “We’ve got Conan, huh? Let’s just stick him in a generic ‘you killed my dad’ plot.”

Pacific Rim is my go-to example of dispensing with boring set-up. The set-up is basically just “Aw shit! Monsters! But then, robots!”

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The replicants seemed entirely biological in construction, so it never occurred that they wouldn’t breathe.

This is sort of where I thought the Battlestar Galactica reboot was going - the 13 Colonies were actually created life that evolved, fled into space, founded a new society, and created life that rebelled, which would probably create life that would rebel, etc. It made sense in the context of the “this has all happened…

That IS lucky.

I only watched the first hour, but came away the impression that Black Bolt et al. are assholes, and Maximus is the hero of the show. I don’t think this was the intention.

I think it deserves to be in the top 10 if you delete the second ending. It’s fantastic if it just ends with robot kid staring at the statue.

Didn’t Rick say “I already told you we could only do this a few times?” Since he said that post-Cronenberg, it seems like the squirrel incident is after.

Why would Rick have made Clone Beth with the memory of the cloning offer? Seems like the easiest way to handle it would have been for Rick to go “Beth, do you thinking I’m [urp] so fucking stupid that I’d make a clone with the memory she might be a clone?”

Also the fact that the NRA morfed into a gun manufacturer’s lobby. The NRA doesn’t give a fuck about the right to keep and bear arms, they just care about buying and selling them.

He’s explicitly stating the view of all super-crazy gun rights people - that they care more about their guns than they do the victims. They think that if they have to bury thousands of people each year so they can have an AR-15, so be it.

Jesus. That was a pretty fucking big spoiler, particularly since Deckard’s presence 30 years later would seem to argue AGAINST the conclusion you say the new film embraces.

It would be nice if you could access these reviews under the Star Trek: Discovery tab, but the only review there is the “pre-air” review.

Hmmm. Good point about Marion.

Although Indiana Jones seems much more competent than Deckard, Raider of the Lost Ark is another Harrison Ford movie where the hero could’ve stayed home and the outcome would’ve been the same.

You explain it by noting that he liked origami, and it was to let Deckard know he had been there, but let Rachel live. Since the unicorn dream wasn’t in the theatrical release, it had no significance beyond that.

Correct.

The narration in the theatrical version absolutely says she had no lifespan limit.