I wouldn't be so harsh on the characters, but you're not wrong about the gameyness of the ending. Don't forget the disk-retrieval mini-game!

"I CAN'T PUT MY ARMS DOWN"

chess Battleship.

None of it was great, but it was Barney that ruined the finale for me. It wasn't just the last season, they reversed YEARS of character growth on a dime. And then trying to turn it around yet again on another dime with the baby was just the final insult. After what you just did, how are we supposed to trust that?…

Yes, I wasn't aware it had been successful enough to be hated by "legions."

Bioshock: Infinite's use of God Only Knows pwns both.

Increase the Flash Gordon noise and put more science stuff around.

Silly walks is a really specific comedy niche to be good at, but John Cleese is absolutely the grand high wizard at it. Watching that sketch again it's obvious how much the others are struggling just to keep company with him.

I guess that depends in which sense you mean "party." The Democratic party leadership has been nuked, and rebuilding it with a younger, smarter generation will be tough work given the shallow bench they have to work with. But ideologically the party - the voters - are as unified as ever, at least so far as can be…

It'll never happen, it's the internet. But I like your thinking.

Like that time in Kansas when Gov Brownback came in with extreme policies very similar to Trump's and promptly decimated the state economy and government to the point that over 100 of his own party members came out publicly in support of his Democratic opponent…

I can't not read his responses as the High Commander.

It's especially advantageous to use those existing tropes in a context like this, about things not being what they seem. The audience, being familiar with every trope and archetype, will instantly make assumptions about them… and those assumptions can then be manipulated against them.

Something different, like Medieval World or whatever, would be cool looking (though perhaps redundant with GoT), but it would be superficial. There's a deeper thematic resonance about Westerns that's perfect for this material. The very raison d'etre of the Western genre is exploring the boundaries of civilized order.…

The criticism about the Alien in wide-shot is interesting, and I see why it's "debatable." The problem is not really that the effect has aged, or that it looks like a dude in a suit, exactly. I mean it's not like you can see a zipper or crease or any other sign that the surface of the creature is not genuine - the…

I know squat about their musicianship or personal ethics, but I like Caveman so…

My favorite cut of all time.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. effectively used invisible monsters back in 2007. It wasn't really billed as a horror title, but it might as well have been.

Obvious missing choices: Jaws. Metropolis.

Well… you know how it goes. It was all a cunning act, but by the end she likes him for real anyway.