If I could make a suggestion, after the switch-over to the new system, it might be a good idea to have periodic "this is what's going on with the site" type posts where you talk about things like this and give the community a place to talk about it - otherwise there is a tendency for people to pop up in other articles…

If I can elaborate on why that's alarming, the reason is that you are implicitly asking the community to change the way it behaves in order to fit in with the tech you're using.

I worked at the NYT for a while and am familiar with their commenting system, and to be honest it wouldn't really work for the AV Club. The reason is that it relies very heavily on human beings moderating it in order to work - after great technical effort they have recently added machine learning to assist the human…

Don't wear your Bad Religion t-shirts to a Bad Religion show, you pair of dorks

I dunno, I reread the comics recently and Tulip and Jesse are both totally insufferable in the books in different ways (Jesse for being mostly a conduit for every random bad idea Garth Ennis is having at the moment, Tulip for not really existing as a human being except in relation to Jesse). I feel like they've both…

Well are they running the show or aren't they?

That may be so, but they think you're creepy AF

Honestly, what the hell? It doesn't need more than a skeleton crew to defend it - in the books Stannis holds it with a small garrison during Robert's Rebellion and they need to starve him out. At least have a Lannister guy lock the gate! And Jaime straight-up tells Cersei that's where they're going to land!

Sure, but imagine if Trump was actually competent enough to carry his lunatic ideas to fruition. In that way he's preferable to a President Pence (or Ryan, or Jeb Bush or what have you).

Well in fairness, and I agree with you 100% on your characterization of Trump, I think the question that the people who voted for him actually asked was "what's the alternative?" and it's this question that the DNC is going to need to come up with a better answer to in 2020.

Personally I think that with the end of the Leftovers he wound up succeeding at what he tried and failed to do with the end of Lost, so it's a story of plucky redemption.

Y'know, I thought the Zack Snyder movie was a turgid mess, but I actually thought its ending was something of an improvement, at least for a movie adaptation.

What sequels?

Yeah, put a sock in it, Bill Sienkiewicz

They just wanted to emphasize how few friends Tron Guy has

I guess you could say that language…

Y'know, it's not that I don't have a sense of humor, but all that shit that Richard was spouting off to Bryce during their second confrontation smacked heavily of "fake geek girl" MRA bullshit, and that speech would have been basically identical if he was talking about how a woman couldn't possibly be a software…

Well, de gustibus and all that, if you didn't like it you didn't like it. Personally I thought the overwrought direction was a good match with the overwrought content of the manifestos.

I liked it. I mean, art manifestos themselves are kind of unbearable, it's not like you don't know what you're getting into.

I saw this at the Armory when it was out here and the way it was timed was really cool. There is a moment near the end of each individual piece where the camera locks in for a close-up on Blanchett's face as she does a sort of sing-songy chant (different in each one), and they all synchronize with each other to make a…