At first I wasn't sure why this one wasn't working for me, but then when the soldiers started acting out the tired cliche of shooting away at an obviously bulletproof enemy with other-worldly weapons, it occurred to me that this would have worked better with a bunch of Victorian explorers instead of soldiers. The…

I get where you're coming from, although I'll say that io9 comments can have a pretty high signal to noise ratio depending on the topic. And I've seen pointless things like DC vs. Marvel arguments at a similar level on AV Club. The transfer of platforms isn't necessarily going to make things worse than Disqus — I…

I never read Are You There… but my memory of late elementary school is that it seemed to be much more popular among girls like Nancy than girls like Margaret. For whatever reason, openly reading it, carrying it and talking about it was a badge for the clique-ish, popularity seeking girls, and they seemed to love the…

Something that bugs me about the Doctor's fakeout on the prison ship is that it's been well established by this point in the season that Nardole is both smart enough and emotionally savvy enough to figure out that Bill was still Bill. The whole subplot seems to have been built by throwing away what we've known about…

It really feels to me like the Monks and their ability to predict events was horribly thought through. If the Monks are so good at predictions that they can land their pyramid right before a lab is about to have a monumentally bad screwup due to a hangover, broken glasses and a misplaced decimal point, then why can't…

It's hard for me to remember exactly what other special effects movies I had seen then on screen as opposed to on TV, but I think it was things like a later Planet of the Apes movie, some Sinbad movie, things like that. And what I remember most clearly was how seamless Star Wars was — you really didn't register what…

I also saw the first one in the theater as a kid. It is hard to describe how great the effects seemed. They were miles ahead of anything else I had seen.

In the 1970s there were a number of actors who were primarily on the dramatic side who became the leads in sitcoms, such as Carroll O'Connor, Hal Linden and Bea Arthur. They tended to play fairly straightforward roles, but they still needed comedic sensibility — you could see them in the same way as Andre Braugher on…

I suppose you'd like to me to think that Warren Moon is a realistic name for an NFL quarterback too.

I always felt that the movies turned Rodrick into more of a Glam Rock/New Wave guy when he should have been more of a metal head.

You can see the divide in Amazon reviews by parents. There are those who hate the books because they hate Greg, there are those who hate the books because they think the books encourage kids to only laugh at Greg, and there those who like the books because they encourage kids to work through what's good and bad about…

It takes 2/3 of the Senate to remove him in the impeachment process. That means that 20 out of 52 GOP Senators would need to switch. Realistically, half of GOP voters will stick by Trump unless the Russians release some really graphic video of him. And the greater the pressure on Trump, the more those hardcore…

I can definitely believe he was concussed at some point, and I can also believe the Pats did everything possible to look the other way. NFL teams lean on their doctors to diagnose concussions, and NFL team doctors are generally garbage. Also, concussion protocols used by the NFL are a mess.

Other great stuff about him which was often noted elsewhere .

Subtle contrasts didn't work on a 14 inch color TV back then.

That newscaster clip is brilliant. He's channelling someone from a different era, though, like John Chancellor, who was generally very straight down the middle, but every once in a while let things slip for just a second when he was confronted with a big steaming pile. It's a take that doesn't fit the model of today's…

It seemed like Martha was headed that way for the first episode or two and then they decided to take a poised, smart woman and turn her into mush. Such a terrible decision.

He's trying to avoid Julia, so just let him be.

The photography is extremely good too. You get great shots of cats and also of Istanbul. It's not a message movie, to be sure, and it's not the greatest documentary ever, but like you say it's willing to talk about complex issues AND be fun to watch.

If this does well, I would love to see The Graveyard Book adapted well, but I'm not sure that will happen. Ron Howard was announced to be directing it a few years ago, but I don't know if any progress has been made, and his version of The Grinch makes me wonder if he would do a good job. The director of Coraline had…