I’ve always admired the work that goes into creating them (both illustrations and photos), and I think the average person has too, which is why so many have become memes over the years.

Babylon 5 was not “morally gray.” It’s a teenager’s idea of edgy political commentary. When “good” characters did “bad” things, the show was not subtle or nuanced about it. Its surface-level themes hit you like a ton of bricks because its writer always wanted you to know how clever he was.

alien construction workers shout curses at me in New York Italian-American accents

So we’re just going to forget that this series’ creator and lead designer is an admitted domestic abuser and rape apologist?

the “blue box-like building” and “blue and yellow sign” appear, in their totality, on the menu screen. After that, you don’t see them. [...]

They were all making a mint.

What is the extra $10 that games cost now buying?

If the game can run at 30fps on the Series S, there’s no reason why the Series X can’t run it at 60fps at the same settings.

Why is he wearing a grimdark-version of the Shazam outfit? Is he Billy’s long-lost evil uncle or something? Is there any chance this is going to be explained in the movie or are we just supposed to look it up on a fan wiki?

This “soulful” version, which was apparently recorded at the bottom of a well, is wildly out of context with the content of the lyrics. The emotion it’s trying to squeeze from the listener is so generic and also sad for some reason, like a song you’d play over a photo montage at a funeral. It feels incredibly empty…

I feel like they were testing the waters with not having the theme in the first episode, worried about tying it back in with GoT too much, and then once they saw the show was being positively received decided “screw it let’s bust out the theme”.

I don’t know a ton about Tolkien’s works, or how any of the magic in his world actually works, so maybe there’s something that contradicts this, but to me, it seems that The Stranger is Sauron, reborn in a new human form.

I was under the assumption that a second season was already announced, but I was mistaken. https://www.avclub.com/the-sandman-might-not-get-a-second-season-on-netflix-1849439520

I’m guessing it wasn’t too hard for Gaiman & Co. to convince Netflix to let them have this bonus episode

Once the anthology aspect of the show took over, I was hooked. The more serialized final few episodes didn’t click with me as much.

Now you're getting it.

Of course I do. Do you really think I’d comment on the internet without direct, unassailable first-hand knowledge?

such groundbreaking metafictional art

I think I agree with Roiland in general that those earlier episodes were better

That’s true, but what I meant to say was why did she go “I’m not a lawyer anymore”?