I’ll third the “Ruby Rose was a good Bat Woman” view. She was good in the role, she seemed to be having fun with it at first (although it also seems clear from what can be gleaned that as time went on, things on that set got worse and worse for her), and she had very good chemistry with her castmates and with Melissa…

Can I just second that first line? Ruby was damn good in the role and the only real dips came in the second half after things were clearly not great behind the scenes. We’ll probably never know (and maybe we shouldn’t as it’s clearly mostly private) what happened but an awful lot of people seem to be eager to revise…

Comic book rules: No body no death. A proclamation that someone is dead, is useless.

I’m in agreement. No body, not officially dead.

I loved that Alice’s plan to have her father murder her twin sister was so twisted and insane that it even freaked out Tommy & when he ratted her out to her dad he begged him not to tell her it was him, since he didn’t want to get on her bad side

I’ve been reading comics and watching schlock television too long to buy that Kate’s dead without seeing a body (or like, you know, having a scene where her dad identifies the body at the morgue but you can’t see the face because they don’t want to pay Ruby Rose to show up). I mean, I know she’s not coming back to the…

Lower Decks was such a damn delight. Discovery S3 didn’t work for me as well as it did a lot of others but I think it ended strong and I’m excited for next season. I’m hoping we get a new season of Orville this year as well.

For all it’s teething pains (and mistakes) it’s really become something quite excellent. Give it another go. 

Off the top of my head:

If you don’t think it’s dark that George immediately reacts with glee when he finds out he inadvertently killed his fiancée and then continues—for multiple episodes—to be happy that she’s dead without ever once expressing remorse, then, uh, I’m not quite sure what to tell you. 

Susan?

Larry Charles actually did write a script about Elaine buying a gun, which was rejected for being too dark even for this show. Which really makes me wonder just what the hell is in there (for full context, he’s been a regular collaborator on all of Sasha Baron Cohen’s films since the show ended).

Read the same interview and it’s a little further down in the comments. I’m not saying it was his idea originally but he definitely took it and tried to run with it, it appears.

It feels like the grade is how good the show is technically, while the review is about how closely it matches Zack’s particular vision of Star Trek in his head.

Zach has been like this since his season 2 recaps and it’s annoying. I come here to see what grade he’s given the episode, and then go to io9 read their recap

Seconded. This season has been its best.

So last week you said:

Whoever decided that the timeline would be built on this ABY standard should be shot out of an ion cannon. What the hell sense does that make as the demarcation point of any logical counting system, in-universe or IRL? Let’s say the SW characters in-universe get together to reset the calendars. Isn’t it way more…

...by completely ignoring it? Imposing sanctions? They clearly did nothing to deal with the First Order prior to the New Republic government being completely annihilated in TFA.

Maybe they should have pulled those games. Maybe if these digital storefronts stop carrying broken games it would give publishers incentive to not release broken games. CDPR doesn’t care about you dude, you gain nothing by defending them.