Oh, I wouldn’t say the Fremen are all that saintly! *rimshot*

I just finished re-reading God Emperor of Dune, and I have to say that it did leave the overall series slightly ruined.

I wonder if Jackie Chain stripped the GPS data out of that photo of them at the weed farm

I gotta say, I am enthusiastic about this show and I love any chance to watch Rami get a chance to use his acting chops, but I agree, the whole “precocious child who melts the grizzled older character’s jaded heart” bit was pretty mawkish and predictable for this show.

Interestingly, the choice of Back to the Future Day as a setting has now concretely identified the timeline of the show, this latest episode of which is taking place on October 21, 2015. (This is well before some tech they use in the show, like Signal, was available, but that doesn’t bother me too much since the show…

It’s also a sub-rosa version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

To me he’s got that Quentin Tarantino quality where all the dialog he writes is so recognizable that you might as well just photoshop his face over, like, Wolverine and whoever Wolverine is talking to. The staccato banter thing works really well for some comics, like his pre-Marvel crime comics, but it just doesn’t…

I have a feeling next week’s episode isn’t going to rise to the level of Dostoyevsky, but I do love surprises.

Don’t forget “look everyone, Aaron got really sad after his husband died, because he is a deeply-considered character! And did we mention he’s gay?”

...and 7/8 of the of the time he’ll just be sitting around somewhere arguing about what to do!

Yeah, seriously, not to mention all the times he guns down random Discovery crewmembers.

Seriously, what is the goddamn deal with that? Why do dudes feel the need to pop up in threads about movie trailers and blast them with irrelevant “look what the libtard media is IGNORING today” inanity? And why can’t we block them?

I have a good amount of faith in Garland, but I agree it’s going to be a challenge. I mean, for the whole first part of the first novel nobody can quite tell whether the lighthouse is a tower or a tunnel. In a movie you’d need to show it as either one or the other, I’d think. I’m also not crazy about the psychedelic…

For one factual error, it’s not exactly correct to state that a Senate bill “died before reaching the Senate.”

Well, for what it’s worth, they covered their asses in episode 2 by showing Sarek mind-melding with Michael.

It’s the middlebrow period piece that, due to contractual obligations, everyone is talking about!

Kinjamprove has made the comments usable again, and frankly I always hated Disqus and am baffled that anybody liked it enough to keep using it when they aren’t forced to. Without Kinjamprove I probably wouldn’t even try to read the comments, let alone post in them. Now if only there was some way to embed that…

FWIW, you can install the Firefox version of Kinjamprove on mobile Firefox, at least on Android (plus you can put an ad blocker on there, rendering the mobile web halfway usable again).

Sure, but what’s the solution to that that involves punching Nazis? Are you saying that if only Fields had been physically incapacitated by violence he wouldn’t have been able to drive the car through those protesters? Since nobody knew beforehand who was going to snap, should the scene have just been a free-for-all…

Seriously! I’m seeing notifications for replies on True Blood threads and thinking to myself, “wait, I watched True Blood?”