IF you’re a fan of the genre, the first few are readable. The books are basically 3 hour airport reads of Crank ridiculousness. There’s no redeeming qualities like John D. MacDonald or Donald Westlake.

As an amateur Nolanologist, I’ve come to the conclusion he gets his plot motives from a small set of anxieties. Underneath the pseudo-cerebral exterior, he’s an innocently personal filmmaker who loves James Bond movies and airplanes. He is, in modern parlance, a classic dad and total wife guy. Also note that while…

All the people involved are geniuses the way the blended fiction with actual events and it wasn’t corny and fit very well into the story they were creating. . I mean the fact that so many people never knew about the Tulsa Massacre is so telling about why we have a such a race problem here and why so many people want…

I feel my joking off the late-90s steroid era in baseball may have been too oblique here.

It is gloriously apropos that a movie featuring Illyana Rasputin has been stuck in Limbo for years.

I applaud the AV Club stance on this!

I don’t know why everyone keeps playing coy with the fact that a character *literally named Stormfront* is a white supremacist and baddie. I haven’t seen a single moment of this season and I still know that.

Yeah, the fact that this article specifically mentions Tony sacrifice in Endgame and doesn’t mention Black Widow at all is glaring.

Yup - mischaracterizing why the A-Force reference scene doesn’t universally work is the other problem with the article. Because I can both appreciate an easter egg for its comic nerdiness and representational catharsis AND be critical of it because it happens after offing the character that made it possible and…

I mean really. Widow and Hawkeye nearly killed each other so one of them could throw themselves off the cliff. And Hulk even talks about how he tried to bring her back when he un-snapped the snap, but it wouldn’t work.

Dear Tom:

Can I call you Tom? I like the feature, and normally I’d don’t give a shit, but please talk to more women other than your daughter and the woman who probably gave birth to her. After many decades of NOT HAVING SHIT REPRESENT US, lots of women had an emotional reaction to the damn women-Avengers moment and did…

In the end, the only one who has to sacrifice himself is Tony Stark

Did anyone else notice one thing? Remember the vision? Dany entering the abandoned Iron Throne with ‘snow’ falling? That wasn’t snow, it was ash! 

Oh, yes, nearly forgot about how Varys’ was sending a child to poison Daenerys. (There is a reason he is a fan favorite!) It’s a Chekhov’s gun, but the plotting and characterization is so incomplete it’s hard to know whether the simplest thing can be done right.

Weighing in on the death of my most beloved character, Jaime Lannister. I’ve had a few hours to to lick my wounds, and I’ve decided this was a really satisfying way for him and Cersei to go. Cersei got off relatively easily for GOT—no one sliced her head off, or stabbed her in the womb and then sliced her head off—but…