Were these in any way in any competition with one another? That’s the whole thesis of this piece, right?

You rightfully mention it, but I just think it bears repeating: God damn, that is a great soundtrack! It’s almost “This is Spinal Tap” in how the songs are both a pitch-perfect pastiche and excellent sincere contribution to the form.

I try not to expend too much energy on “why is X show not getting coverage here” arguments - we live in a SEO optimization hellscape so what’s the point? - but it does depress me a little that the AV Club keeps recapping things like ‘The Golden Bachelor’ while ignoring other shows, even ones that it will elsewhere…

I demand that everytime someone praises the Office or Extras they strongly note Stephan Merchants writing.  Everything Gervais writes that Merchant isn't involved with is notably shittier.

Your mom’s a bad take.

If someone asserts something (like a core belief of mine not being true), then it’s up to them to prove it with credible evidence from credible sources.  It’s not up to me/others to prove it for them.  

Can’t let people see inside their phony device that it’s a big, fat phony.

Did you at least read the opening paragraph before shooting down to comments?

Literally in the first paragraph of the article:

I’ll echo the recommendation to watch Silo. My wife doesn’t always get pulled into the same shows I watch, but a few episodes in she started asking when the next episode would drop. Hopefully the strike will end soon and the writers, cast, and crew can return to this world.

Apple literally never says shit like that.  That’s just a bizarre angry fantasy stuck in the heads of Android fanbois.

I dislike trump, I wish him harm... that being said, the heavy air quote "journalism" you guys do is so biased it makes me ashamed to share the same opinion... please... reign in the smugness... I would like to sleep at night thinking my liberal views are right... not thinking the people I share beliefs with are petty…

I never read any Asimov. I’ve read a ton of sci-fi and fantasy fiction, just not his books.

*sigh* It does not matter how far it is, it is an adaptation. I am sure you would also scream about West Side Story not being Romeo and Juliet as well. 

I enjoy the show, and have read all of the Foundation books. They were formative for me. I re-read the first two recently, and...well, I don’t think they’re all that good anymore. Even if I did, using the fact that an adaptation isn’t all that faithful to the original as a reason to question the intelligence of the…

Love the show, but feels weird how they are adapting the book. Would love to see more coverage on the differences between the series and the book, because I think they are making interesting choices. 

I think the problem with expecting people to get through Clone Wars is that a) it skews younger than the all-ages feel the franchise typically goes for and b) the level of quality is very spotty, especially early on. There’s a reason those “essential episodes” guides are so popular.

I’m really curious how this show is going to work. I was “too old” for The Clone Wars when it came out and Rebels sort of came and went without me taking much notice. Last year, my wife and I started watching The Clone Wars because it seems to be the basis of so much of the new Star Wars canon. But we fell off…

“Pike and Batel did little to no leading of the crew”