Hmm, interesting image in Darcy’s poster. Is she going to become a sorceress? The design of the red S & backwards S on her torso look very Dr. Strange-ish.

YES! Me too - they are both great characters & played by beautiful women. Also, I am a walking fashion don’t but I live for seeing Avasarala’s outfits. Drummer only gets to run around in jumpsuits, but that eyeshadow...
I have yet to watch any of Season 5 yet. Yes, I need to get on that.

It’s a monthly subscription, right? So at 12 editions a year it will take 10 years to get all the pieces.

It’s a crummy commercial?

I was going to say that it should be reversed also.

The 1951 “The Thing from Another World” is a well done monster tale for the 50's while Carpenter’s “The Thing is closer to the original novella “Who Goes There” by John W Campbell. Both movies are 2 of my favorites while only sharing the UFO and being set in a cold climate.
The 1951 shares many elements of the original…

Ethics? Slander and libel?
We already have police and prosecutors with lots of power who lie & cheat to convict the innocent because it’s expedient. We don’t need the entirety of the media to be licking their hob-nailed boots in an effort to kill or jail all of “those people”.
Tabloids and clickbait are available, but…

I did play at a local con where one asshat had a 5e PC who hated all half-race characters. The guy kept having his character go on rants about mudbloods & crap like that. The table did ask him to tone it down a bit & he left with the change in DM. But it shows that even if everything is nice & copacetic in the rules,…

I do try to think of alignment (especially of a group) as something other than good v evil or chaos v law. A chaotic evil society doesn’t mean everyone runs around murdering everyone else all the time - just that everyone is out for their own interest all the time. A lawful evil society would be much more like the…

It’s different in that journalist are exempt from the curfew. They were all carrying appropriate identification provided by the authorities. The police in Minneapolis and many other locations are scared bullies lashing out after years of having their way to rape, murder, and rob people. Hopefully reform is coming and…

Ahh, someone else who got the Brazil reference!

I also loved Sara’s over-the-top Shatner parody. I knew it was coming, but it was really cute. It was also cute that the male androids work the shorts on the USS Waverider.

The Expanse has been one bright spot in space shows. The CGI is decent w/out looking too much like computer graphics. Sets are decent. The latest season was almost all on one planet that looked like a gravel pit with the crew of the Roci. I haven’t gotten there in the books yet, but it was apparently close to the book…

I’d say that the current production costs for spaceship interiors, costumes, special effects, etc. make space-related movies & especially shows much less likely to get done. Westerns disguised as post-apocalyptic tales are going to be a lot less expensive. I can’t travel in space but a compelling, serious drama with…

Are they going to stick with the “All restaurants are Taco Bells”? Coz otherwise, what is the point?

“But why can she ignore these bullets when getting shot in the season premiere made her pass out?”
Dolores was acting the whole time in the tunnel. If she didn’t get shot, she would’ve found some other way to appeal to Caleb’s “humanity” (one of the theories is that Caleb is a Host put in place by Dolores). One of the…

My only hope is that after Abrams trashed two beloved IP’s - Star Trek and then Star Wars - that he can only direct p0rn0s after this. He might be a decent director & friendly with the actors, but he’s a terrible storyteller. His fetish of overboard fan service & constant intersectionality ruin his movies.

There are two very good Star Wars movies and two okay Star Wars movies. Everything else is shit that may have a good moment or two. The last movie rivals only Solo for how bad it is.
RE: Last Jedi - I appreciated the idea to focus less on the fated/intertwined characters and add much needed diversity to the cast.…

Good, succinct article.
I learned too much about ventilators & lung function when my wife developed ARDS at the end of her first 100-days monitoring for her bone marrow transplant. If not for the expert ICU nurses & staff monitoring her ventilator, she would’ve died. I think what ultimately saved her was they decided…

If I was gonna go to a park like Westworld, being an Ally soldier in WW2 (and knowing I couldn’t get hurt) would be top of my list. What could be better than shooting lots of Nazis?
Also, I think Maeve was revived for a role in that park and has been doing it for some indeterminate amount of time and her freed mind…

I too was afraid that the kicker at the end of the season would be that everyone is a f’king robot so Dolores is going to take over a world with what turn out to be robots. I predict that Caleb is a robot. Does Dolores already know?