I’m not the original person who asked about foci, but on behalf of everyone who hasn’t taken a math course in over a decade, thank you for giving a concise helpful answer instead of being a smartass like some other commenters. 

Blanc was definitely my least favorite part of Knives Out. I’ve been assuming that Blanc is just going to end up being the common thread tying together a run of fun murder mysteries where the main draw is the mystery itself and the great cast, and I’m A-OK with that. I just hope that Rian Johnson / Daniel Craig are…

Honestly, nowadays I’ll take a real libertarian over an extreme Right-Winger. At least when a libertarian says “the government should stay out of people’s business,” they mean it for everyone equally. The Right tends to mean “the government should stay out of how I run my business, should stop trying to teach my kids…

I think the word “hero” is somewhat unhelpful in this context, without a definition. Does the film portray him as a good guy doing good things? Can safely say no. But does it portray him as a martyr to a good cause - a man who did what needed to be done, and sure it messed him up, but we should appreciate those who…

I do really appreciate just how normal Cap and Nat are around each other, in an entertainment industry that usually seems incapable of admitting the existence of platonic friendships.

They somehow managed to have too much material and not enough, with deceptively simple overall themes but a ton of moving pieces and dropped ideas. They needed to go one direction or the other - streamline the overly convoluted mess into one movie, or take a modern HBO-style miniseries to work through everything in…

While I generally agree that the Wachowskis drastically overestimate their philosophical-ness, I like to pretend that at least in that one scene, it was on purpose. The Architect sounded like what you’d get if you told a highly advanced A.I. “script something that sounds like it was written by a philosophy professor.”

I guess we’ll see if it’s intentional, but the new design also evokes the magic design in Dr. Strange (the ‘time rings’ around his arm when he was looping).

How did I only just find out Tony Leung is in this!!!

I’d generally agree, as long as we leave a ‘panhandle’ of northernness* that covers all the government types and beach homes in DelMarVa. I live in Arlington VA, and it doesn’t start to feel overly southern until you get about an hour west or south.  But insofar as you are pointing out that western PA is totally the…

The only way voting would not represent a population’s majority values would be if a majority of that population didn’t vote, which... would say a lot about that population’s values.

Ha, that would be amazing. “...there’s two of you?!”

I did enjoy this version’s attempt at explaining, which was basically “we’ll take anyone who’s willing to work without health insurance.”

Now I’m imagining someone looking at Clark and Superman and going “yeah, Lois definitely has a type.”

While in my heart of hearts I agree with the ‘at this point it’s their fault if they catch it and die,’ the problem is the risk of mutation. If we have a big enough pool of unvaccinated people, the virus can mutate into something that can get past the vaccine.

The ‘no big deal’ angle brings to mind the ‘it’s no worse that the Flu’ argument. Um, the flu has killed millions, dude. People only think it’s no big deal because we have a vaccine. 

I ditched it about the same time, and 100% assumed it got canceled after one season. Usually any show with a genre premise gets at least occasional shout-outs in geek-internet circles, but there was zero chatter on this one. Maybe because it ended up being more religious than sci-fi? (Except Leftovers definitely got…

Not sure how common it is in Hawaii (never been), but I’ve always been a fan of the ‘find a 3 hr tour to a single location that leaves from your hotel’ tourism model. Personally, I don’t like driving in new places, and for better or worse the tour companies tend to know the locations you don’t want to miss, if you…

I’d be okay with an alternate earth sibling. I just really don’t want to suddenly have to get into ‘hey ghost dad, did you cheat on mom / why didn’t you tell me I had a brother.’

I wonder if it’s partly because Lois and Clark are fully fledged, mature adults already - they don’t need the guidance of a parental figure like the other Arrowverse characters have, so the show hasn’t been forced to write him as one. (Yeah, technically Laurel and Oliver were adults, but they sure didn’t act like it…