My first thought here is that it would be difficult to find agreeable, non-neurotic people who are also the over-achieving, ambitious, workaholic types that would have the skills and stamina necessary for such a mission. Maybe this is just my own biases at work, though...

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…

Solo came out when the SW fandom was at the peak of tedious, yawn-inducing hysterics, and so got neglected for the fun movie that it is. This seems like the perfect way of giving one of the best things that movie set up - the casting of Glover as Lando - the development it deserves. In Atlanta, Glover has shown…

Pornhub’s parent company Mindgeek purportedly owns a majority market share of the world’s internet pornography, so of course they’re going to be the loudest voice. Most of what I know comes from Jon Ronsen’s The Butterfly Effect, which is an interesting book on the rise of Mindgeek. He doesn’t attempt a comprehensive…

I thought it was a great ending: hit all the right emotional beats for a satisfying end to the character arcs of the movie, and an end to Indy’s career. Some of the action sequences in the rest of the film dragged a bit: Mangold was imitating Spielberg’s style, but didn’t quite reach Spielberg’s level of vibrancy and…

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve encountered folks wishing for this in Star Trek forums, and expressed this wish myself. Tie-in fiction is always hit or miss - for me, mostly miss - but A Stitch in Time is probably the best Star Trek novel I’ve read. Hearing it in Garak’s own voice will be a real treat!

I read and loved the books back in the day, but also liked the series. Granted, I re-read the first two books before the series premiered and found them...well, just not very good. I understand how important they were, and there’s the glow of nostalgia for me, but I’m in the camp of people who think that a faithful…

Yeah, but the CNN article cites one Instagram post that quotes one other Korean source for a negative quote. It’s sensationalistic, bad journalism for them to imply generalizations about the society based on a single social media post citing another social media post. But this seems to be how media runs these days:…

P.S. the numbers listed here for The Little Mermaid are pretty good for an American movie in Korea. Even the highest grossing American movie of all time here, Avengers: Endgame, made far less than $100 million over the course of its entire run. And of all the Disney live action remakes, only Beauty and the Beast has…

I don’t know about China, but this headline is pretty disingenuous when it comes to Korea.

I live in Seoul, and yesterday the whole city was given a rude awakening, with alarms blaring from every cellphone and booming voices on the air raid speakers telling people to evacuate underground. It was disturbing to say the least, and for the thirty minutes or so before they sent out an all clear message a big…

I read and loved the books in my youth, and enjoyed the show a lot. After season 1, I re-read the first two books and...well, concluded that the books just aren’t very good. I still get how groundbreaking they were idea-wise, but the characterization is so thin that to call the characters two-dimensional would be too…

You Khan folks are like Birthers: no amount of evidence will ever convince you to give your crazy views up...

I'd like to see him tackle something new in geekdom: e.g. putting his own spin on heroic fantasy, or trying his hand at sci-fi or fantasty set in another historical period...

Yes, Whedon + HBO or Whedon + Showtime. He'd do really well with a high budget TV show with a short season: this was what Dollhouse was, after all. Imagine Dollhouse, but with a network like HBO or Showtime that doesn't shit all over its creators...

The whininess is a bit annoying, but I think it will work out in the long run: she has a very long way to go to develop as a character. It would be unrealistic - and not faithful to her character arc in the books - if she transforms from an abused child to a stately queen too quickly.

Both are true. The Dotrice version of book 4 is available (at least on audible.com, where I get my audiobooks). It's true that some of the voices change in Book 5: I don't know if it was Dotrice's fault, or the director's. In any case, it's still a great reading. Dotrice has a real talent for giving many…

The audiobooks are marvelous: Roy Dotrice is the best audiobook performer I've ever heard - and I do most of my fiction reading in audiobook form.

Tangentially related, but CBS just did a profile of Joss Whedon that has two tiny snippets from "Much Ado About Nothing." It's embedded in the story at the link below:

Cumberbatch plays a really good cocky asshole over-impressed by his own intellect: Sherlock Holmes. Khan is nothing like Holmes, but at least we know Cumberbatch can play immensely arrogant but still likeable...