“It may seem silly to pit Marvel movies and DC movies against each other, since they’re all comic book movies and the audience for one tends to be the exact same audience for the other, it’s not a fair fight, you’d have to be sadistic.”

If you want a really foreboding sign, how about seeing that you’re about to board a... “737 MAX 8"

Dedicating an episode to make you care about a character just before they get killed is a TV trope as old as... probably The Sopranos, which isn’t *that* old, but anyways, Discovery isn’t the first to do it. Movies sometimes do it too, at a more micro level—characters enjoy their most sympathetic moment just before the…

The source of my tears was more the reaction and sense of loss conveyed by the other characters. The reaction shots—especially of Tilly--were really effective, and I felt sad for them losing their friend. That hit hard, for me, not withstanding that Airiam was window dressing before this episode.

Geez yeah, it sure would be embarrassing to make a comment about something without reading its context.

In retrospect, that was very obvious, and I’d really like to delete my comment if I could. 

I wonder what the rules are to prevent people from just circling around the drive through again and getting another coffee. Or—gasp—doing a 360 at the cash register and ordering another small.

They now have corporate synergy with Tim Hortons , which is a coffee titan (their original brew is not very good, but their dark roast is pretty good, and they have some tricks with cream and sugar for the calorie-unconscious that make the coffee taste like candy). It should be easy for BK to leverage that industry…

Totally agree. Chicken sandwiches are my preferred fast food choice, and I’ve never had anything nearly as disgusting as BK’s chicken patties. I don’t recall if I’ve tried the tenders, but the fingers and patties taste like chicken slurry ground up into a fine paste. That kind of thing sometimes tastes better than it…

McMansion Hell is an “AV Club favorite” for reasons that are totally lost on me, but I will say, that horse painting is genuinely fucking hilarious.

Did anyone else here listen to the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend episodes with Jeff Goldblum and Timothy Olyphant? If so, was I alone in think they were *awful*?

I found the panel. 

Those are glasses, not sunglasses. His trademark sunglasses were Jackie O-style thick oval frames. I’ll concede that prescription wraparounds were never cool.

I haven’t read the comics, but my understanding is that the reveal of the cat (who was named something other than “Goose”, I can’t recall what) as actually being a “flerken” coincided with the cat meeting Rocket, and Rocket flipping out.

The benchmark for cool men’s fashion in the 90s is Brad Pitt. Have a search to see what he wore to the 1998 Emmys.

Wayfarers have come *back* into style. They were not cool in the 90s.

Wraparound sunglasses were *cool* in the 90s. I remember that vividly. But not practical - they had a propensity for fogging up.

I generally have a lot of faith in AV Club film reviews, and so went into the theater tonight with lowered expectations. But I didn’t need to be primed for disappointment. It was really good.

[Will Smith, scrubbing furiously]

Arnold is the true star of T2, but you’re right that James Cameron has a good track record with female leads in his action movies, and they’re also the type of big budget blockbuster that I was talking about. Though I maintain that Cameron is pretty unique in that respect.