Of course the team is going to try to get help from the people they know. Which is to say, people well known to history. Taking chances on random strangers being useful would be nuts.

Misreading so that you don't even get that the takeaway is in the final "joke" would be impressive, were it sincere.

I'm pretty sure you need to actually read the article once. Then ask yourself how the hell they could legit think building up to a Shia punch line makes any sense.

AVClub approves Nazis shutting down Shia LaBoeuf, 'cause nothing's worse than Shia LaBoeuf.

Sorry, but the notion Nolan Batman is good but Snyder Batman is bad is incoherent. It's not an idea, it's a failure of thought.

Sorry, no, still convinced Wick died at the end of the first movie and this is the afterlife in Hell sequel.

The Virgin of Guadeloupe is a Roman Catholic observance, not a member of the Mexican pantheon. Your own hypothetical example forgets that the religion of the conquerors can and usually does prevail. The great counter-example, Islam, was the state religion of a one-time world empire. Of course, Colony isn't going to…

Dunno, in Lost Boys he was quite good at conveying his character's desire to attack Corey Haim in his bubble bath. Which sounds really awful when you say it, but hey, the Lost Boys have to really be Lost, right?

I'm down with the theory that Wick died at the end of the first movie and this is his afterlife in Hell.

It's pretty much a given that some people were bribed with power…but they don't have alien tech and need a labor force even more.

If massacres aren't provoking extermination, it's doubtful labor problems ten, twenty, thirty years down the line will.

In the long run, if the aliens need people's work at all, people will find a way to leverage their work. If they don't need it, then the question is why they aren't exterminating the people. In practice, non-cooperation on things like pointing out that fire hazard can be highly destructive. Even in school everybody…

The old gods failed. That's why Katie's stupid invocation of all of them was so pointless. As for Madeline, it was Katie who was truly rude when she instantly dismissed Madeline as a fool. Personally, I think there's no such thing as magic, and I would immediately conclude whatever Madeline and Lindsay have seen are…

If "getting out more" means forgetting the difference between what people say and what people do, don't want any of it. I'm well aware there are Gunnys in the armed forces. The thing about armies is, it doesn't really matter much more what the soldiers think, because it's an army and they do what they're told (and…

Is it? Or is it that regular people in our every day world value foreigners no more than Gunny values dusters? And it seems to me that most US soldiers have a rather more professional attitude, thinking of war as the job rather than the life and death crusade. Admittedly they hate the enemy, whoever that is, but they…

No doubt you're right about the name, and name tag. But in my defense nobody uses the name tags, that why they have to get it right on Mr. Asshole. (If you don't have a leg to stand on, make amputee jokes.)

Attacking Eros should be the last step on the march to general war. Earth government is of course worried about being bombarded by asteroids. Seeing one turned into a demonstration weapon is an implicit ultimatum. Their choice is total surrender or mass death. And the rulers never surrender if the peons can still…

My son once tried to get out of the car because he was afraid of the electronic bug in the dashboard. We were on the four lane, going about sixty at that moment.

"Croeso" is Welsh for "welcome."

You can use body counts. Some people respect a high body count enormously. And curiously, others disrespect that greatly. But the number itself can be pretty objective.