I don’t think Joss Whedon knows what a John le Carre spy story is like if he thinks that an action movie with a sexy femme fatale ninja would be similar to it.

Stars and Stripes trilogy by Harry Harrison has John Ericson designing Civil War era tanks. The books are absolutely terrible, though.

framing the original script’s allusions to the then-upcoming Scottish independence referendum

This was one of my favorites of the season. It felt more like a Neil Gaiman story to me than the episodes he actually wrote.

LOL... man that’s random! Chimichangas!!

I’d like it if the female agent were Diane.

The book kind of reminded me of a cross between The Last of Us and the I Am Legend novel... the movie kind of reminds me of a mix of The Last of Us and 28 Days Later, which seems an appropriate replacement.

It sounds like they sampled the soundtrack to The Life Aquatic.

I remember watching this movie constantly as a kid. I’d bet it doesn’t hold up now, but I’m surprised it’s apparently faded away to being not even available to watch anywhere.

This is the basis of “The Magic Goes Away” by Larry Niven. I feel like with the current emphasis on renewable energy and conservation, this sort of approach to magic should be more popular in fantasy.

No, I understood Firefly just fine. It’s a series where the heroes are the Bundy family.

Joss Whedon feminism, where the male main character spends the entire show calling a sex worker a whore to her face and ignoring her requests for him to treat her respectfully, while a brain-damaged teenager beats up redshirts.

My personal theory is that Kylo Ren is the only one of the knights who are actually Force-sensitive. They’re not shown with lightsabers, and Kylo and Rey being the only Force-sensitives would make them each more important to Snoke and Luke than if there are a ton of potential replacements around. Plus it would make it…

Not to mention how there was a ton of female writers and artists at Dark Horse, including Jan Duursema who was one of the two leading creators of DH’s Star Wars license.

Back when Dynamite started doing both classic and remake BSG comics in 2006, I followed each for a few years. I actually thought the original BSG comics were better, maybe because they had a worse starting source so could only go up, or because the new-BSG comics were constrained by the ongoing story. The “Cylon…

This bit from Something Awful on bad corporate Twitter responses to Prince’s death pretty much sums up my thoughts on Chris Hardwick (A\along the Maron episode about the Talking Dead).

It’s amazing that people still keep taking Devin Faraci’s DC rumors seriously when he has had an amazing streak of them being almost-immediately debunked. It’s almost like he makes up stuff based on his dislike for the film series and other websites who share that view uncritically echo it.

As for what Finn is doing, the most credible rumors are that he and Kelly Marie Tran’s character are involving in finding out a First Order traitor within the remaining New Republic leadership.

I hope they include the little-known Terminix-sponsored Blues Brothers 2012.

Bring back Greg Sestero.