I feel like all of the writing energy that the staff put into Ward should have been redirected into Danny. Don’t get me wrong; Ward was an interesting character, and the actor who played him knocked it out of the park. The show was Iron Fist, though, and they really needed to make people like Danny Rand more than…

That actress wanted to verbal fry so much... She worked hard to suppress it for period accuracy, but it still came out a little.

Especially when the videos won’t work for some reason, as is the case for me and this video.

I would argue that on Voyager, the outsider character was the holographic doctor, not Tuvok. The Doctor was one of the few redeeming parts of that show.

That is true, but the show made it pretty clear that she immigrated as an adult.

She was also a secret alien refugee... and that was weirdly problematic. I mean, the show just brushes it aside, but it means that she certainly does not qualify as president on the basis of land of birth and that she deliberately and systematically lied to the American people about her background. I mean, how did the…

I think that Supergirl handled the big bad problem pretty well— they had two important ones with supporting casts. Then again, I was not bothered by the Mon El plot as much. I suppose it contributed to less focus on Supergirl herself. (In looking at Melissa Benoist’s biography, though, it appears that she was going…

You brought her up. You don’t get to complain about others writing about her when you do that.

There was a brief scene in Daredevil Season 2 in which Stick spouted expletives as he decapitated Nobu. Nobu had fallen from the rooftop during the big battle.

In some countries such as Finland, silencers are required for shooting because of noise pollution rules.

I recently discovered fountain pens, and I love them. I now carry a couple of them around with me all the time.

It was “Laws of Inferno Dynamics,” not “Laws of Thermal Dynamics.” The former is a way better title.

Of the movie villains, he is one of the better ones. (MCU TV villains are generally pretty amazing, and it’s a shame that the movies have not been able to depict villains well.)

I suspect that they’ll bring him in to spark some interest in the show, and then they’ll turn to the solid second best thing about the show, Melissa Benoist’s earnest and charismatic Supergirl. (The first best thing is obviously Kat Grant, and she’ll be less important this season.) Superman will have a little arc, and…

He really did have the best lines on the show. My personal favorite was uttered when the Founders stripped Odo of his shapeshifting ability: “I envy you, Odo, for all of the wonderful food you get to try for the first time.” Or, it was something to that effect. I usually like the white knight paladin characters, but…

I cheer first for my American countrymen (and countrywomen... countrypersons?) After that, I cheer for fellow democracies.

Oh, it was a battle as well as an evacuation. Lots of rearguard action, aerial engagements, and naval operations were required to win thing. In warfare, successful organized retreating is a really important art. It can’t always be about overrunning your enemies or crushing them in a brilliant flanking maneuver.

I am extremely skeptical of physicists coming in and making claims far outside of their fields. (It’s a group that can get really overconfident about their superiority over other fields of science.) There is no empirical data here. It’s all a mathematical model that can at best be considered a hypothesis.

Nearly all of the Ultimate Spider-Man was really excellent. (The arc with Ultimate Deadpool sucked, but that was mostly because Ultimate Deadpool sucked a lot. I have no idea why they made Ultimate Deadpool an evil anti-mutant hate machine with a glass skull. He wasn’t even funny.)

Another really huge change occurred in the early 20th Century when chestnut blight pretty much wiped out the American chestnut. This tree dominated many of the forests east of the Mississippi River, and they were really huge— not much smaller than a redwood. They’re all but gone now, many of their stumps continually…