I just found it annoying, because people go "WWZ is this amazingly well done examination of how a worldwide zombie epidemic would go.", when really it's "This is how a worldwide zombie epidemic would go if you handwaved away all the glaring vulnerabilities that would make a global zombie epidemic manageable."

Enh, not really. Brooks' answer to every reasonable zombie vulnerability is basically "Because" or "zombie magic". Brooks can go into as much -fauxdetail or use as much technobabble as he wants but at the end of the day, his zombies break the laws of physics by writer fiat, because that's the only way zombies can be…

In all the times I've seen guys play a game like this (or some variation on fuck marry kill), it's not age or fatness or ugliness, it's women they despise, usually for political views. Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Jenny McCarthy, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, etc.

My theory is the show is popular because post apoc settings are secretly a really attractive, relaxing fantasy for viewers. Okay , yes, in theory civilization has collapsed and it's all dangerous and such, but I think subconsciously what a lot of viewers see is "Hey, no 9-5. No TPS cover sheets. No parking tickets.…

It's a dancing movie, so it means stars of the dance world, or at least this corner of the dance world. Adam Sevani, Chadd Smith, hopefully Harry Shum, Stephen Boss, the various guest crews generally appearing as antagonists etc.

If you rewatch the scene it's pretty obvious they're all women. I was going to give the show credit for not wasting a ton of time with a "Okay, here's our special all ladies SWAT team!" scene, but apparently they should have been more blatant.

The hotel SWAT team was all women, actually.

Did the show actually sell itself as having an equal ratio? I don't remember that from the trailers before the show started.

I played Hearthstone for a while but ultimately it bored me. I do think the overall scope of gameplay interactions and strategies is lacking. I also felt like the game had a bit too much presentation fluff. Everything wiggles or pulses or jumps around, everything has some voice sample attached, I felt like it was…

Actually I read a breakdown of the shooting schedule somewhere and it seems like Ellen Page was there a lot.

And to expand on my actual comment, here's obvious reasons why a pirate ship battle every episode would be bad.

No comment anyone has made in this thread about the way Max is being treated right now counts as rape apology. No one is claiming rape isn't serious, no one is claiming Max isn't being raped, and no one is saying Max's rape is somehow her fault. Engaging with the arguments people are actually making is a better idea…

He mentions The Wire in terms of how the show would get you into how Baltimore worked. This show is doing the same (not to say this show is equal in quality to The Wire). We're getting a ton of interesting stuff about how the economics of piracy works, and how pirate crews/ships work (most other shows would just say…

The reviewer thinks a pirate battle every episode is a good idea. He's not operating on a particularly deep level.

But…how? The _literal_ "drunken belligerent Irishman" had me wiping my eyes in disbelief. The absolutely insane skinny dipping nonsense? The absurd "I have to get my completely nonfunctional cell phone!" bit. The characters, who, up till then, had gotten into 40 stupid hair trigger temper squabbles and fired their…

The problem is, as far as I can tell _everyone else_ watching the show got all this stuff pretty easily.

There's a whole story behind why they labeled Willow as lesbian rather than bisexual, having to do with an utterly batshit level of audience backlash at the time (remember, this was like 15 years ago, and the WB Buffy forums got really ugly about any kind of queer Willow, and about Tara and her evil, mind controlling…

In all seriousness, as shitty as Newsroom was, Olivia Munn was a really pleasant surprise, and I hope this is a gateway to her getting more/better gigs going forward.

I'm trying to understand what the series is supposed to be here. The premise we've been presented with so far is a movie or a miniseries. It can't be "Well, X more people got infected and we meet Y new scientists who act like assholes" every week.

Well…I guess YMMV. The character's been around since the mid seventies and I've known about him basically all my life. This is not the Guardians of the Galaxy I grew up with, those were different characters, but aside from Rocket Raccoon I've known about Drax the Destroyer for ages as well. Just depends on which…