NO. Stop, you morons! GoT works at least partly because it’s new! Make other fantasy stories, you idiots! There’s SO MUCH TO ADAPT.

But that’s why I’m arguing with you about this. The only happy ending within existentialism is the good death, and noir film is existentialist. There is no other happy ending, because no matter when the story stops, people die. Cinderella will eventually die, and we have no way of knowing if she died happy or not. K…

Well I question the idea that K doesn’t get what he wants. He wants to be human. And his final sacrifice is the thing that makes him human. He demonstrates empathy for others and free choice by choosing to help these people he has no real connection with. The fact that he dies doing so makes him even more human-like,…

Well you can’t really say the Blade Runner ends unhappily because the sequel adds information. That’d be like saying Cinderella doesn’t end happily because a marriage based on shoe size isn’t likely to be sustainable. The point is there’s an end to the story that is happy; in noir, it means the world is still awful,…

Except for Blade Runner 2049, which has a happy ending? In noir the ending doesn’t undo the bleakness of the setting, but individuals within noir can certainly have a happy ending. Deckard and Rachel run off with each other at the end of Blade Runner—how is that ending not a happy one for them?

I’m desperate for a follow up: Addams Family Reunion. Bring back the entire cast. Gomez, alas, has passed on, but because we’re the Addams, he’s never far from our thoughts. Uncle Fester is mostly a corpse. Morticia has taken up Grandmama’s role. Wednesday has grown out of her deadpan and into the gothy joie de vivre…

Well, all you’ve demonstrated there is that male detectives in noir are routinely punching bags, which I agree with. Female noir detectives are a whole other trope. Look at Alicia Huberman in Notorious, Torchy in Smart Blonde, or Florence in Mystery of the Wax Museum. Female noir detectives get thwarted in other ways.…

Well we’re now getting perilously close to spoilers here, but if K were a woman and K were who she initially thought she was, I think that the story line would have been better.

The law wasn’t really applied until Giuliani revived it in the 90s.

I mean, you just know that Tony Stark wears Iron Man pjs.

I second you on the women part. I think it would have been more satisfying to have K be female.

It seems plausible that chugging a bunch of vials of unknown substances stored under the counter at a Chinese apothecary (yes, really) will give her more direct planet manipulation.

I’ve not gone into angry screeds over it, but the reality is that BvS and sushi aren’t that similar. Sure, I can avoid sushi because other food is available. But when I love sushi (ie, DC characters) and the only sushi I have access to is bad (BvS), then my life is actually worse off than it could be. I love the MCU;…

Hi, I’m Captain America,

This is the joke that I wanted.

Well yeah. MoS, BvS, and Justice League are clearly a trilogy about Cavill’s superman.

Hey now, we can’t start messing around with time itself.

In a statement, Sunwing said the terms “champagne vacations” and “champagne service” were used to imply the type of service passengers could expect, not describe the beverage specifically.

The other guy might be right! I just know that the meter remained the same size when they moved from a physical model to a constant in physics. That’s why the meter is defined as the seemingly arbitrary length light travels in 1/299792458 of a second. 

Good god, that movie is dumb.