• “So Jemma’s implant can be removed from one ear canal with pliers, but Daisy’s is stuck on her? Sure, why not.”

It’s possible that publicly stating exactly what he did may do further harm to whoever he harmed. He explicitly said what he did was wrong and by implication that 3rd party criticism of his actions may be forthcoming.

I think it fails if you don’t reframe the cultural issues baked into the premise. But a witty action spy movie, well cast (make sure the chemistry reads work), with a more straight-laced, by-the-book type paired with a looser cannon type could still work fine.

I get that, it is kind of cringy, but I also think it’s inevitable that charities and volunteer efforts like this need to show what they’re doing and what the end benefit is to help attract new donors and volunteers. And I’ll take a world with some kind of empathy and community outreach over a world of cruelty and…

The latter, yes, I’m sympathetic to him feel a little cranky about that, the former, no. The usage permission isn’t his to grant. That’s not the producers of the movie’s fault.

Enh, they’re very different treatments and they’re both good. At this point in time the Turner version is probably somewhat better known, but that happens a lot with popular covers. (My favorite being when people find out Soft Cell’s version of Tainted Love is a cover).

Enh, I’m fine with this. He wrote something he cares about and which he feels a certain (peaceful) way about, and now he sees it being used as a jokey tagline for a violent movie. I think he has a right to not be too fond of that. But the movie producers seem to have gotten the rights/clearance fair and square, so…

James, why does i09 cover Riverdale? Does it have any sci-fi or supernatural elements? I know the overall “Archie universe” does with Sabrina the Teenage Witch, but does Riverdale itself?

I liked a lot of Caprica, but it’s a real shame it had to be tied into BSG. That wasn’t how it was originally conceived.

Yes. Becky 1 is playing Becky and Becky 2 is playing some new character, but I assume they’ll fit some meta-jokes into it about the weirdness.

I get that (I did some gymnastics 3 million years and 3 million pounds ago), I just feel like sports like skating get hit even harder than they deserve for that stuff, as compared to say, traveling or charging in basketball or pass interference or holding in football or balls and strikes in baseball, calls which…

I think it’s a bit unfair to call skating entirely judgment calls. If you fall, you fall. If you do a quad, or don’t, that’s not subjective.

I am an old. So old. GLADOS came so much later in my life (I was 34 years old by then) that my attitudes had already been set.

“Slavishly recycled TNG plots and aesthetic” is not a nice breath of fresh air. It’s Seth McFarlane’s nostalgia for 90's Trek taken to festishistic levels.

Well, I’m sorry if he doesn’t like it, but CW is trying to build a DCTV universe and superheroes have sidekicks and groups they belong to and imitators and legacy heroes and whatnot. After the utterly fantastic crossover we just had, “There’s too many superheroes on these superhero shows” is not an complaint that…

A high percentage of regulars on cop shows are cops. A high percentage of regulars on doctor shows are doctors. A high percentage of characters on lawyer shows are lawyers. A high percentage of regulars on superhero shows are...

That culture can influence our assumptions and preferences is in incredibly broad, generic, and obvious point, and of course I don’t disagree with it. I think Cranz is saying something a bit more specific, I’m simply noting the axis or framework people hook into from cultural inputs (like authority vs villainy or…

Side note: Amazon started as an online bookstore, not a CD/music seller.

I’m trying to draw a distinction between “Helpful vs Authoritative” and “Good vs Murderous”

I have a strict “No laser hallway” policy.