Not to mention the magical thinking on the part of Disney in releasing this in theaters at this moment in time

Just wait. There’s a bit in the comics where Butcher has his dog Terror, who has been trained to rape other dogs, rape one of the male comic relief characters (Kessler, the CIA liaison). Classic, hilarious anti-heroics from enfant terrible Garth Ennis!

Watchmen-style deconstruction of the Justice League

You never learn

“Inspired by” or not, a lot of those scenes looked like they are lifted directly from the novel, which actually might work better as a film than a book. This looks really good! Toni Collette and David Thewlis as the unsettling parents!

Not to mention that it’s also, by far, the shittiest poetry Eliot ever wrote.

Yeah but how else are you going to terrify them into obedience?

Hmm, I can see it now, thanks! It does seem unlikely that D+B would have read this, though...

The ending was way too derivative of Children of Dune

Wait, is “airy, dynamic New Age” something we need to be paying attention to now?

Yeah, I mean have a lot of affection for the dude as a person, and he’s good in roles that his acting style is well-suited for (Matrix, John Wick), but I don’t know why Hollywood seems to need him to be in every science fiction film, even ones that he’s not well-suited for (Constantine, Dracula, The Day the Earth…

Keanu Reeves may return

I don’t care what the people who are robbing me do, they’ll be robbing me either way. I’d just as soon not have the people on my side be jerks who make me look bad by association though.

I was really hoping that the twist in this episode was going to be that Fiji really was a beautiful octopus, somehow transformed into a human being, and she had to find her way back to the aquarium

Yeah, turns out it’s impossible to point out the coming class war without also acting like complete assholes and aping the lowest-common-denominator discourse of their supposed foes

In terms of allusions to previous episodes, the broken glasses shot reminded me of “Time Enough at Last”:

That’s a good point - either she set up fictional social media profiles showing that she lived in a different town and was single, or Phil just hallucinated the stuff he read online about her. I’d say that points to the telepathic connection being real, since the “Phil is just crazy” explanation is pretty unsatisfying.

The 1980s reboot is seriously underrated, in my opinion. They adapted a ton of stories from legit sci-fi writers (Harlan Ellison, Greg Bear, George R R Martin, Arthur C Clarke, Ray Bradbury) and they also good writers writing new stuff who would then go on to better things (J. Michael Straczynski, not always my cuppa…

I’m not sure how you could possibly enjoy the original episodes if you have a problem with “SJW messaging” which is basically all they consist of.

argh