This is actually the stupidest “exposure” of a putatively fake video I’ve ever seen. I expected to find that what someone had found was that there was some sort of editing or compositional fakery. But unless I’m misunderstanding this “revelation”, the alleged hoax is that the crab ran over to a knife and pick it up in…

Crawling out of the well, I see.

Always fascinating. “Here’s a deep-seated category of stuff from movies. We’ll mostly use recent, bad examples from very recent films. Please click on it! Because we think you’re all stupid.”

Pod and Brienne don’t hang around that much comparatively in the books, though, compared to the series (where they seem more Dunk and Eggy to me).

Are you all being paid by the Weather Channel? If so, carry on with using their very-nearly trademarked names for “winter storms”. At least you have a legitimate interest in it.

Dennis Mersereau.

Please stop covering weather. Your ex-writer is still doing it better at his own blog. I would think a union could manage that much—to insist that when editorial decides to stop covering something, it stops covering it.

Wow, I remember when Gawker Media decided that the clicks for weather stories were worth paying someone who knew about weather to write them. As opposed to:

This is pretty much what Tom Vanderbilt’s Traffic offers as a summary of traffic and transportation-based research. But among the things he adds is work on what human beings tend to do in information-poor social environments, which is to invent a tremendous amount of additional (false) information about the people…

I think actually the understanding that Reed and Doom come to in that final conflict is this:

This is the reason that Doom was still disfigured even as the God of Battleworld: he still saw himself as flawed, as not having the courage to make a reality that wouldn’t worship him. He had to steal a family rather than make one, he had to force the world to worship and love him. He knew that Reed Richards would…

What happened to the concluding moment of the previous Silver Surfer series, where it was revealed that the Shaper of Worlds, Glorian and the Surfer were hanging out outside of reality waiting for Doom to fall so they could provide a template for a new reality? I assumed that would turn out to be where Reed and…

Many funny ones but the concept seems a bit uneven? It seems to me that for an unmasking, it ought to be either a secret identity that’s a bit at odds with what’s visible or it’s like Russian dolls, one more version inside one more version. The idea seems more like the latter, though not always (Alien/ET) but I guess…

What’s going on with these “crater trails”? I see at least two others, where it almost looks like an object made a series of shallow impacts in a line?

So I’m sure this has already been said, but I’ll say it again for reasons of emphasis. There is something just ever so slightly unpleasant about complaining about Leia’s role as if it is something that the people making the film have completely free-floating, unconstrained agency in pursuing.

I think you have to…

We also came up with this theory, and it turns out that Kenobi does say something about “first steps” in that Force vision. What if that’s not about her awakening in the Force but is the memory of a granddaughter hearing a proud if furtive grandfather talking about her as a toddler? I actually like the symmetry of Rey…

“And they know he each other are.”

I thought it was rushed and also cheap-looking. That was possibly the least magical magic I’ve ever seen. The afterlife sequence was particularly drab: “It’s life after death! It just happens to look entirely like a set we already have, shot in our usual style, with a few spare ninjas around”. You’d think they could…

I don’t actually care if it’s nuTrek’s continuity or an older one. The essential infrastructure of any Trek has to be:

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