You are wrong. Because you are assuming that the cheese in question is American cheese and you are assuming that the grill has too many damn hamburgers on it and is not hot enough. And you are assuming the chef is a damn control freak who puts condiments and lettuce and tomatoes on burgers for every damn person as if…

I just wish they wouldn’t feel the need to fix everything with a kind of 100% nostalgic reset. My ties to comics are feeling more and more tentative and it’s partly because there is just no sense of the story moving on at all. Soap operas hit the same wall a while back: even the most diehard fans want to see something…

Sorry, very satisfying?

You mean the episode that lets Euron follow up magically building a giant fleet from nothing with Yara being completely incompetent and just sailing right into an enemy fleet? Yeah, that was great.

Pretty much here’s how it goes:
Producers: We need Danerys to attack King’s Landing and get a…

Doctor Strange is really one of my favorite characters, but I don’t feel as if Marvel feels the same way lately, even with the desire to promote the MCU version. I normally like Jason Aaron’s writing, but the entire initial arc in Strange’s relaunched book really felt wrong—the humor seems forced, the depowering of…

And the dangerous properties of some Martian waters.

So, a documentary? That’s kind of a bold career-changing move.

I just spent a few minutes being sure the Io-shadow is a real image. It seems impossible for it to be. But it is. Imagine what more is out there for us to see, even if it’s just robots taking pictures for us.

The French did win the war, though. It’s just that the battle established that the Mexican army could give a good account of itself and made it clear that the French probably could not hold the country indefinitely under force of arms. Arguably the battle is what allowed Juarez to continue to lead a…

So look, I am more forgiving than many about this kind of thing, but here you have characters from an ethnically nonspecific city where people get transformed into all sorts of bodies. Children don’t necessarily resemble their parents, parents might be a green-skinned person with wings and a purple-skinned person with…

Can anyone explain to me the logic of the sentence “one of Star Wars’ best villains-you-love-to-hate”? What did she even do? It’s like saying that you have strong feelings about the guy who pulls the level to fire the Death Star in the first movie, or the guy who says “There is a danger” or the guy who tells Vader…

I’d like to advise him that if he really genuinely doesn’t know anything about the genre, maybe he should stick to what he knows. Or wait for a creative partner who can point him in the right direction.

Wait, Goatse ????

I understand that it’s premium cable and all that, but maybe that’s not a great idea for a series.

Guilt-ridden cleric who used to worship a god that demanded human sacrifice and bloody wars against all enemies, but who quit to worship a deity of peace, healing and understanding, and so insisted on trying to negotiate with any remotely sentient creature and would only allow his party to fight if attacked first.…

Why is “just an outlier” a yawn? If it turns out vulcanism can happen on dwarf planets, large asteroids, and so on, even just one of them, that seems interesting in and of itself.

This is huge. Heads-up is much, much more predictable in a whole range of ways. This is a solveable problem; 4-5 players is not. When they build an AI that wins in a 4-5 player game significantly more often than any human player, that’s a sign that we have a general AI on the horizon. An AI that can consistently win…

Well, I think you’ve gone one further. If there was anyone left unannoyed, your typically smarmy self-righteousness and complete unwillingness to explore, say, anything like an actual issue as if you are alive and among us rather than some kind of algorithmic love child of Aimee Semple McPherson and Eugene Debs will…

Capaldi almost feels like he’s shading into being annoyed with the show at present. Maybe I’m just projecting. I feel for the guy: one of the absolute best portrayals of the character stuck in so many weak scripts and situations.

But this is precisely the point: the motivation matters if you would like to change the outcomes. If people are anti-GMO because they are uncomfortable with the current character of global-scale agribusinesses and what they do to the environment and to human society—and if people are drawn to climate change denial…

I am interested in this twist.

1. Drax is a one-note character in the comics. Not to mention a really confused one. I’m talking his whole history, here. The character’s occasional pathos stems *from being a one-note character*: created to kill Thanos. He’s been a smart version, a dumb version, and a berserker knife-wielding version, but never deep…