Yeah, it would’ve been a little too easy to understand why Cersei was boning down with her brother if Cox was the alternative.

Yeah, in retrospect Abrams needing to reset all the sequel trilogy’s needles back to the state of play in Star Wars was a fatal flaw.

Yeah, movies now don’t have downer endings, they have downer beginnings. But the real issue is that in a world where no popular IP is allowed to conclude or even to rest, the idea that any of the generally upbeat endings that individual episodes get is actually an ending, much less a happy ending, is risible. Out of…

It’s still a scandal, since you’re supposed to vet for this kind of stuff before you give a pair of grifters a national platform to promote themselves, not after. I mean, the importance of finding reliable contractors with good reputations is a major theme of the DIY TV genre. Good on Magnolia for taking action on…

It’s like someone made his face out of two very different stock photos!

“But Simon, you just can’t understand how wild Comic-Con was back in those days!”

That reference is cool, but “The 355" is still an awful title. The number needs a word that’s not an article in front of it: “Agent” or “Codename” or something. As it stands, you see the five stars and just think “They’re 350 short!”

He’s actually managed to kill the X-Men franchise twice. How on Earth do you get two shots at the Dark Phoenix saga and shit the bed both times?

Yeah, that was clear when they issued the Los Angeles ultimatum, with moving expenses that wouldn’t cover a move from Chicago to Evansville, much less a move to one of the pricier cities in the U.S.

Sadly, the only instructions TMZ gave the taunters on what “famous” meant was “Would Tatiana Tenreyro cover this for AV Club Newswire?”

Now there we go. If you got Jon Hamm to play the role, I’d definitely care!

This is all assuming TMZ didn’t pay them from the outset to try to start a fight with someone famous.

and Aeris into someone I give a shit about!

There are some social costs, although for the most part they’ve been used as a smoke screen by anti-mask types who use the general idea as their excuse to oppose doing something that’s simple and provably safe. For example, masks have been really hard on people with hearing impairments, who depend on lip reading and…

Like Claremont, a lot of Bendis’s value at his peak was in being a more-woke-than-average white guy who helped expand representation in comics. In both cases, a big part of the lasting value of their contributions was inspiring the people who followed to do what they did, but better. In Bendis’s case, him writing…

My first instinct was “Dr. Strange exposition monologue” but then I remembered this is DC. Who’s his DC exposition monologue guy?

I loved LSH as a kid, but New Teen Titans took their corner pretty hard, with the advantages of being set in the main DC continuity and not having as much sprawl. Going from the Wolfman/Perez Titans back to LSH made the reader aware of how much work you had to do just to keep the LSH universe straight, all for a…

On your three complaints, the only one I kinda sign on to is #3. For #1, the men sacrificed themselves because neither Amalisa nor her brother had any idea how powerful Egwene and Nynaeve were. If they had abandoned the city like Min, or been any less powerful, the Trollocs win in a walk. For #2, they weren’t wreaking…

Was it really the first time? Having binged the first five episodes, and read the reviews in a similar binge, it always struck me that the most consistent thing in the comments throughout was that you really, really didn’t like the show. Not ragging on you or disagreeing, just saying that you seem more surprised by…

Thanks, Zack, for the reviews on this. I really hope you’re back reviewing this next season.