If the show was actually presenting anything because some rather unimaginative sadomasochism, this would be good advice. Part of teh obsessive theorizing is because there's not really much else to watch.

Bob Patterson *is* Number One!

Thanks, that was easy to follow.

Thanks for trying to explain…over my head.

The truly weird thing is why Cisco sometimes has powers but usually doesn't. Also, I have no clue what those powers really are. I thought they had something to do with being able to see other universes, which sounds like he should be partnering in time travel stories. But what is the low wattage zap, which doesn't…

But I own neither stocks in nor bonds issued by the franchise. And I haven't made it any personal loans. And of course, needless as it is to say, I'm not employed by the franchise either.

Two things going on with the kill everybody strategy. First, killing everybody means the word doesn't get out so that the much better armed, much better organized, just as ruthless white militias don't get the word. Second, and sorry if this offends any one but I believe it to be tragically true: Getting the slaves to…

Followed the link, and only the first two came from the X-Men comics I read. All that other stuff came later. So, no, the Scott I knew wasn't a dick.

It's no surprise that comic book writers don't understand that paradoxes may be cool, but nonsense is the opposite of meaningful. But with the money at stake in movies and TV you'd think the producers and writers would notice, wouldn't you?

I would have thought this was a superb hatchet job on a piece of crap. But anybody who thinks The Force Awakens, a random string of emotional beats from the real movies, revitalized the franchise, reviews box office and buzz, not movies. Now I have to wonder about watching this for myself, even though I'm not much…

"But none of it carries any dramatic weight. Despite its manageable running time and early attempts at verisimilitude (as long as one discounts the fact that it more or less opens with a child explaining where crude oil comes from), Deepwater Horizon struggles with self-organization as long as its characters aren’t…

Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl

The changing the time line paradoxes are difficult to take seriously on one level because they don't make sense, and can't, being paradoxes. On the other hand, the diary suggests the show is going to finish in a causal loop, which at least is self-consistent. Still, the historian coming up with God as an explanation…

The review above is yet more evidence for my ever increasing conviction that obsessing over the director is the sure sign of an imbecile movie reviewer.

The first season of True Detective was no where as good as allleged, barring Alexandria Daddario's breasts. The second was no where as bad as alleged either. Even more to the point, much of what was bad about the second season was exactly what was bad about the first season. The only real difference between the two…

Elmer Bernstein's Paint It Black…glorious!

The textbooks say that people tend to forget the unpleasant experiences. I don't remember that from the original movie.

They have a scene where a man brings a gun to a knife fight…and wins. This, ladies and gentlemen, is humor.

The people who really care about which horse wins the race or which boxer wins the fight are the people who've invested in the outcome. In drama written on this approach, viewers invest in a fantasy hero figure, then root for them to win. Or, if it's a suffering hero fantasy, to lose in the most flattering way. This…

Tired cliches like the general I guess *are* like beating a dead horse. I think they're hoping to get glue to hold the show together. Or at least to make sure people are comforted by not seeing something too novel?