DoFP wiped out Last Stand.

It does seem odd how he failed upwards. And Chastain is apparently enthusiastic about starring in his next film!

I think Ready Player One is a Warner Brothers production, which was why an Iron Giant reference appeared in it.

What is “LS”?

Hey, there is a small bit of optimism at the end of Logan.

I’m not a fan of First Class. It saddled the series with Lawrence’s Mystique, who was made Xavier’s adopted sister for some stupid reason. The new characters were uninteresting and I don’t miss them.

I use A New Hope because “Star Wars” is also the name of the franchise. If “Raiders of the Lost Ark” had started out with the title as just “Indiana Jones”, that would also get confusing as more movies got added.

What’s the basis for accusing Dowd of racism?

The 60s comics were clearly inspired by the civil rights movement, with Xavier & Magneto as analogues for MLK & Malcolm X. The gay rights allegory seemed more evident to me in the Singer films (“Have you tried not being a mutant?”) than First Class.

Why “finally”? Was cancellation expected much earlier?

I second that recommendation. They added some material to Heinlein’s story which could indicate that not everything was a closed loop, but that evidence comes from an unreliable character. The most notable change from Heinlein’s story would be how it shifts from being one about an extremely impulsive person who…

Would we evaluate these memoirs differently if their authors actually did commit suicide? I don’t think Mitchell Heisman’s Suicide Note would have attracted nearly as much attention if he hadn’t.

The placebo effect appears to consist nearly entirely of simple regression to the mean:

I found it slightly amusing how the description says “Looking at this series episode title by episode title, you can keep a running list of hard conversations you’ve deftly avoided or haven’t even thought to have”, making the assumption this niche podcast is at all relevant to the reader.

That is strange, considering how many of them I’ve seen comment.

Oh, I thought the FBI was independent of them.

The older version of the character was a wealthy retiree because he “closed his loop” as a young man, killing the older version of himself. If he goes back in time and prevents his loop from being closed, then he couldn’t have lived the life of a wealthy retiree involving a relationship that motivated him to survive…

Homeland Security? This sounds closer to a matter for regular police.

I think R. Kelly is still popular enough that people would stick up for him. He’s had people volunteer to pay his bail.

Jeremy Bentham argued on a utilitarian basis for legalization even earlier. Although one of his arguments depended on the idea that as a boy grew older he would grow as repulsive to pederasts as a pederast had been to him, and in his youth could substitute only for a “common prostitute” rather than a “virtuous woman”,…