But Kubrick's Clockwork Orange is essentially 95% similar to the source. The only major omission is the last chapter, which was put into the novel until later pressings.

You are 100% that it is to satisfy vocal fanbases. That's pretty much all media right now. And it sucks.

I don't think season 4 of Arrested Development was that bad, but then again, it wasn't as good as seasons 1-3.

While I'm the #1 crusader against all things that fetishize old pop-culture, these television revivals so far have been for series that had pretty underwhelming finales or were unceremoniously cancelled with little to no warning to staff. These are shows that stand to gain something from another go at the final…

The end of money.

I could write you a book on what's bad about the prequels. They have some of the worst scripts ever put to the page, they actually play it entirely too safe within the OT framework, and they were the start of the current era of sfx-heavy summer blockbusters.

I agree. I hope they keep keep Vader like this for the rest of the show. Vader's menace has been cut down severely thanks to years of him being defeated in battle against a variety of characters just for shock value. Galen Marek beating his ass in the Force Unleashed is one particularly egregious example that comes to…

To be fair, it seems like Disney is trying its hardest to ignore them. Fanfare from them is swinging hard in the OT direction.

You really should have just talked about Amy Schumer. We could have had an angry comments hat trick!

I mean, Harry Truman wasn't the best character on the show or anything, but he was a comfortable, neutral presence that really sealed some gaps the show had. It won't feel quite right without him there

In the Walking Dead bites kill you due to intense bacterial infection. So he would die anyways, being "immune" would just mean he doesn't come back as a zombie.

Science is hardly objective truth. It is the best estimation of truth we can conjure with currently available information. To imply it is perfect ("it simply is") is to say that it is infallible and unchanging, which is simply not the case. Science is malleable and ever-changing, flexible and able to adjust to the…

I agree with you. In that case they are totally different. But when people compare them it is overwhelmingly in reference to how the belief system makes a person behave, not that belief in an ancient book is in anyway tantamount to the results of empirical research.

I felt the same way about her memoir. I wish these various takes on her story would really tackle her humanity and cover her life in a meaningful way. The bits of the story in her memoir about her day-to-day life and family were far away the best; it's a shame these bright spots were dragged down by dozens of pages…

"There are those that like to assert that science is a religion of its own. That’s utter nonsense, for a variety of reasons that would require this entire review to unpack"

I am still having a ton of trouble coming to grips with how fucking fast everything goes to hell in this show. Los Angeles, a city with roughly 18 million people living in its metropolitan area, is in 10 days reduced from 99% functional to a "dead zone" with 13 scattered safe zones. We have the military mowing down…

The Criterion Collection on Hulu is alone worth the price of admission. It's nice to have a massive store of free classics ready to stream at a moment's notice.

The US internet infrastructure is sad. I'm endlessly giddy that the FCC seems to be doing all it can to push their shit in. I also hope Google's campaign to shame them into improving the internet lines pays off.

I hope so, but we will see. The cable companies are behemoths and they have no interest in seeing traditional TV go away. I also know that the networks still haven't a clue on how to tackle such a shift. My brother is a research executive at NBC and he and I have had plenty of conversations about the implications of…

She's awesome and has some legitimate hardships in her life with her bipolar disorder and brushes with suicidal ideation. A celebrity that's actually memoir-worthy in my opinion.