End of my interest in this: David Goyer as showrunner.

I do not understand why people who have played a really bad role in genre work keep getting genre work. 

This is maybe the fourth attempt to reboot the Metal Men around a “dark secret”, usually tied to a new characterization of Will Magnus as a depressive or as troubled by some past trauma. I understand why this is the repeated recipe for new versions of Silver Age characters—after all, DC’s Silver Age was built around…

I think a bit about the arc of the Centauri and the Narn in Babylon 5. The Narn fight back, they start to bully the Centauri around, that conditions Londo Mollari (and others) to desperately want their glory back, Londo makes a bad deal, it goes a lot further than he ever wanted it to go, G’Kar makes the point that…

Is the premise of a “beginner’s guide” that you must not under any circumstances look up these sauces so that you understand what they are, what they’re commonly used in, or any other relevant information? I get that the Takeout is supposed to be fun, light-hearted, and to sell some product for the ad revenue, but…

I’m certainly prepared to hear that the show has muddled instincts about how to represent race in its fantasy setting—it’s an issue for the whole genre.

But I want to point out how frustrating and complicated it is to insist that if slavery is represented in fantasy, the referent always has to be slavery in the…

I’m so proud that you’re showcasing this graphic novel, but could you please not do a sideways denigration of the huge body of historical scholarship that provides the information that this graphic novel is working from? It gets a bit frustrating to have people express a view that their wokeness arises from…

I am 100% behind liberal arts graduates claiming their educational experiences. That said, it might be seemly to lightly qualify the “as a medievalist” when you’re a person with a BA that includes a minor in medieval studies before you start laying out an expert description of the current consensus in medieval…

I hope some of the writers for this site have learned some lessons about this experience, too.

People could see it. It was just poorly set up in terms of specific character beats and scenes.

The plot gods have spoken: a thing will now happen that was very poorly built towards. I’m not disappointed that the road ends here, but I am disappointed that the road didn’t lead here. 

Revenge is a dish best served kind of lukewarm from having been left out all night and then accidentally spilled all over your own lap before you stand up and say “OH SHIT I meant to do that”. 

This is the weirdest damn request I’ve seen an entitled reader make of a publication. “Please stop writing things at your publication, it’s interfering with my ability to read your publication.”

Looks suspiciously like Dr. Strange’s cape. 

Paying the bill and the tip at once is the best solution. I usually try to do that: “That’s all set”. But the OP’s question interests me because I’ve long been haunted by exactly this thought in those situations where I’ve had to leave the tip on the table (usually when I don’t have the right denominations of cash to…

If we’re in this solar system in the event of certain kinds of plausible extra-solar disasters or events, the species is done, full stop. This is a logic that never really exhausts itself, and eventually, even in the best case scenario, there will be nowhere left to run. Isn’t the highest priority living as well and…

Technology is not iterative in a straightforwardly accumulative way. That is a completely inaccurate generalization about the history of technology. The idea that you just say, “We want to do this” and then do the closest thing to doing that and somehow it iterates magically to the thing you want to do only fits a…

Actually, what I remember is writers at this very site hyping this company, along with Elon Musk’s phony Mars plans. 

Um, no. The whole precipitating event in the 2009 film was that in the Prime timeline, Romulus was threatened by a supernova. Spock promised the Romulans that he’d bring “red matter” that could create a black hole to try and stave off the supernova, which for technobabble reasons was a threat to the entire galaxy, not…

I cannot wait to not see this, ever.

I’m happy with this Doctor. I’m happy with this season. I’m happy with the end of a lot of Moffat tropes that really wore out their welcome a long time ago.

That said, I also am content to watch the New Year’s Special some time in the next few weeks. The singular critical remark I would have about Whitaker’s first…