I was a latchkey kid in the 70s and early 80s. I spent sooo much time goofing off with my friends all over the neighborhood, totally unsupervised. Rode the bus or my bike all over town — a small city of about a million people at the time. When my peers started breeding in the 90s I couldn’t understand “playdates” —…

Same - within a couple episodes it became TWD: Walking Deader

Usually, that’s my favorite part of the zombie/nuclear fallout/apocalypse genre, until, you know, (gestures arms wildly) but I do still enjoy that part of the Stand, and I was VERY disappointed by Fear the Walking Dead, which promised me societal collapse and then fast-forwarded through it.

Has anyone noticed (/s) that the longer guys like Whedon get away with shit, the worse they get? The notion of men getting harmless as they age is an especially toxic one.

Yeah, I can see how it is made in jest with no ill will implied, but the optics are a bit off. 

Is Jez really doing a story about “how will the short little black lady swim”??? About the most amazing U.S. amateur female athlete? Yikes.

Those Buffy inserts made me groan a bit. Especially the kiss scene from Buffy which made me go, “Oh okay...THAT’S how they learned to write lesbian romances for this.”

And I felt like...okay it’s NOT a good adaptation of the comic,yes...but I still feel like overall it kinda sorta captured quite a bit of the overall…

I mean, “anticlimactic ending” is one of Stephen King’s trademarks. I love the dude - he’s my favorite author - but while he’s a great storyteller, he’s a TERRIBLE story ender. Except for The Dark Tower, which I know a lot of people hated but was, in my opinion, a perfect ending. 

Well, your kids are gonna love it.

Ohh, yeah I really dug Wizards too!

I will give Netflix credit for grabbing a fine selection of Nordic stuff that I’ve really enjoyed over the last few years. It’s probably what I’ve liked the most through Netflix. Deadwind and Bordertown are great. Quicksand, The Rain, The Valhalla Murders, and Dark (although German, not Nordic), are all solid. The…

I also want to add:

EXACTLY. Boone is deliberately ignoring a key component of the character’s backstory. Roberto’s mutation triggered *precisely* because of the colorism he experienced. To ignore that not only white-washes the character, it completely disservice him.

That Brazilian colorism discussion was wild and a perfect demonstration on why hiring the “best person for the job” is bullshit. How is Henry’s acting so great it erases the racism strongly related to the characters origin?

I get really annoyed sometimes with how tv shows portray PTSD. I get that they used to not do so at all, so maybe its an improvement, but usually it’s a one or two episode arc of the character realizing they’ve got lingering trauma, learning to deal with it, and then it’s never mentioned again.

Yeah. that. As a society we ignore suffering, and laud these juveniles with their little boy logics. Suffering tends to bring insight and greater understanding for others (although not always), but it’s a tough sell. I mean, Katy Perry can sell records about cats and jungles, but it’s going to be an uphill battle to…

It was shitty enough that the Hugo committee released an apology today (though it was pretty half-assed.)

It was super weird, and I believe he was not alone in praising both Campbell and Lovecraft. Which makes the win for Best Related Work being the “2019 John W. Campbell Award Acceptance Speech”, by Jeannette Ng, which was calling out Campbell for being terrible,a great callout

I had the ceremony on mute so that I could see who won (and unmuted for Ng’s award speech for last year’s award speech, which was well deserved and worth it), so I can’t speak to how egregious the mispronunciations were or the full-throated stanning for a fascist or the non-binary-phobia or any of the other issues…

I would pay the 20 plus dollars for Early Access on Amazon.  I cannot wait for this to come out.  Great comic from the 80's - the cast looks great :)