“Why would anyone work for three years on something that wasn’t yours? Why?”

The vast majority of people do this. It’s called having a job.

What Dorne ‘plot’? (BOOK SPOILERS) Let’s alternatively protect Myrcella and cut her ear off. And let’s send Dany a suitor only for it to be burned alive by Dany’s dragons.

The show Dorne plot is simple, albeit a tad unambitious: Kill someone’s daughter out of spite and vengeance and watch your own daughter suffer the…

Almost any B-52s album would have been a terrific choice, but there is just something so bubbly and vibrant about their last album Funplex that it always appears in my car USB rotation when warm weather rolls around.

For a good revival you need a show that showed tons of promise and created an enduring pop culture legacy combined with a decidedly underwhelming implementation that was hampered by both the technical and artistic limitations of the 80s and the 90s.

I believe there is one ultimate cartoon which fits this bill and would…

Monty Python and the Holy Grail, directed by the actor turned director duo Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam.

I hope I live to see The Hyperion Cantos put to the TV screen. Such a collection of 4 amazing books, each unique in its own way, is begging to be adapted into a 4 season series.

Yes, I think Neelix is a great character and Wesley is under appreciated. The common trait of both these characters is exuberance, something that dour, cynical and humorless nerds tend to find off-putting. However, this exuberance is exactly why these characters are important, to convey the joy and marvel of exploring…

Yes, I think Neelix is a great character and Wesley is under appreciated. The common trait of both these characters is exuberance, something that dour, cynical and humorless nerds tend to find off-putting. However, this exuberance is exactly why these characters are important, to convey the joy and marvel of exploring…

Yeah, I think Tuvix is a great episode. Got a problem with that? Does what all the best Trek did. Combine great science fiction with poignant human themes. Seeing Tuvix beg for this life will never not be haunting and I till this day consider Janeway to be a murderer no matter how much I like both Neelix and Tuvok as…

There is absolutely no reason why multicellular life couldn’t evolve in a rapidly changing environment that required frequent hibernation. If anything, there would be immense advantages to cells huddling together, e.g. surviving cells pillaging resources from vanquished cells or some cells sacrificing themselves,…

The best voyager episodes are the pinnacle of all of Star Trek, right alongside classics such as ‘’Inner Light’’:
‘’Distant Origin Theory,’’ ‘’Nemesis,’’ ‘’Living Witness,’’ ‘’Blink of an Eye,’’ ‘’Course: Oblivion,’’ ‘’The Thaw,’’ ‘’Deathwish,’’ ‘’Before and After,’’ ‘’Mortal Coil,’’ ‘’One Small Step,’’ ‘’Tuvix,’’…

Yeah, the D&D hate is the stuff of pathology, like an angry toddler lashing out at not getting a second cookie.

First, there’s the ridiculous idea that ANYONE on the show was clamoring to do more seasons after spending a DECADE on the whole thing. All were spent, all were done, all were wanting to move on. GRRMs…

Well, annoyingly, we went from a post-religious society to an overt celebration of religious mysticism. From a vision of peace and prosperity to just a cynical wild west in space. From stoicism and celebration of virtue to extreme emoting in the newer incarnations of Trek. Also, DS9 is inferior to both TNG and Voyager.

The fact of the matter is, however much they constrained the story, Gene’s rules did create a sort of believable and culturally distinct universe from ours which helped with making the series a compelling view into the future. The current iteration where people yell, cuss, fail to display the slightest amount of…

I’ve read the books and ‘funny’ is exactly the last thing I’d describe them. The books’ tone is unrelentingly somber (but NOT dour!). Moreover, I don’t think that injecting humor would be even remotely appropriate for the themes and the feel of the story. I mean, the entire story starts off with a father of one of the…

3BP is exactly the kind of thematically rich tour de force D&D are perfect for sinking their teeth into. I am especially happy that they are highly unlikely to sacrifice some of the more unpalatable and less flattering truths about human nature that the book espouses.

Dude, it’s not about ‘gaffes’. I myself have always been pretty dismissive of faux outrage whenever a politician (always on the opposite side of the political isle of course) misspeaks, especially if it’s the kind of mistake ordinary people routinely make.

This is completely different. Literally anyone with eyes, ears…

Classic anti-Serb bigotry. A peppering of selective quotes and drumming up of anti-Russian hysteria when you have videos of countless American politicians shaking hands with Putin. But the accusation of ‘supporting genocide’ has to be the most bizarre of them all. 

But hey, HBO will generously pay for this unilateral…

First of all, the entire Squid Game show falls rather flat as any sort of a deep critique of capitalism. The show is in many places contrived to the max with people making completely nonsensical choices all the time. The games are what drew the audience in. As such, it’s perfectly legitimate to have a reality quiz…

O, wow, so many great food scenes completely missed:
Prison scene in Goodfellas
Spaghetti scene in The Lady and the Tramp
Pie scene in Inglorious Basterds
Garden of candy scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Dinner scene in Scary Movie 2