This. And the entire concept of the series is that the only viable survival strategy for civilizations is pre-emptive genocide. You could imagine a universe where this holds. You could imagine, without any evidence, it’s our universe. But without such evidence, why would you want to?

I’m interested to see how this one will play out. IMO, the books have a lot of amazingly cool sci-fi/physics ideas in them, but are otherwise terrible in ways that might play into Benihoff and Weiss’ own storytelling flaws. Feels like it might well end up a mess, but probably quite an interesting one, and maybe the…

‘”DiMartino and Konietzko were initially attached to the adaptation, but they pulled out in 2020 citing creative differences. And after 10 awkward, uneven hourlong episodes, it’s easy to guess what their objections were.”’

I see you haven’t ever played a Borderlands video game, it’s pretty much how the whole series is.

Joker: I’m gonna make this pencil disappear.

Okay, cool, but what about the first two films made you think that this would be any different?

Bow down, Seppoes, to the true Queen of Pop:

“fall in love with these movies as they grow up”

Can we at least agree that for any perceived problems with the sequels, the human being known as Daisy Ridley isn’t one of them.

Running the risk of being pilloried by my own people (ie, the woke scolds and cancel culture spoilsports of the Internet at large): Barbie wasn’t actually all that great, and it doesn’t really deserve most of the acclaim that it’s received. It was relatively progressive for a children’s movie/toy commercial/nostalgia…

He was also cast later as First Officer Ragnar, who he played in Star Trek: Of Gods And Men (2007) and Star Trek: Renegades (2015-2017).

between andre braugher, chadwick boseman, lance reddick, michael k williams and majors now

Are Swifties good detectives, or are they just the proverbial infinite monkeys pounding away at infinite typewriters?

As tired of superhero stories as people may be, it’s really goddamn cool that they can be used for stuff like this.

Pretty much any of the ultra hard games. I’m in my 40's, so I grew up with a lot of NES and SNES games that were hard in comparison to modern counterparts, so it’s not that I can’t get through difficult games. The bigger issue for me is that at this point in my life I just don’t have the time to repeat the same boss…

there are “street level” heroes, like Luke Cage, Daredevil, etc. That is where Echo belongs. I was unaware of her Phoenix powers, which sound ridiculous. “We don’t know what to do with this character. I know! Give her Phoenix powers!”

This season is a lot better than the first one, for what it’s worth. The animation isn’t in the same league as the Spiderverse movies, but that’s a big ask in my opinion, especially with what we know of the behind the scenes treatment of the animators.

Seems to me the best stuff released by Disney this year were streaming series.

Disney could try treating its employees better and see if that results in higher quality work. A wild concept, I know.

The thing everyone forgets about Broadchurch is that it was consistently good for the first season. The second season was terrible because Chibnall is interested in the things nobody else is interested in. In Broadchurch’s case it was “Now that we discovered the murderer we had been searching for all season, what…