From that article it sounds like Stamets is going to grow a mushroom Culber. Like a fungus-based clone. I guess that’s better than what I’d thought was happening: that they decided the Discovery should have a mad scientist for a medical officer, but couldn’t figure out how someone like that would exist in Starfleet…

Wow, I somehow never quite realized she went blonde. I’m so used to her being a brunette that her hair just registered as light brown.

I think Ross was the one the writers had the most trouble figuring out what to do with. Chandler and Phoebe were more or less the same characters throughout the run of the show - the funny one and the weird one. Joey and Monica started out as different characters than how they ended up - Joey goes from being the…

I’m pretty sure the writer meant that Hamill was able to get over it (“it” being the movie not doing everything exactly the way he wanted it to) because he was an adult, and by getting over it he was able to form an unbiased opinion of the movie, which in his case was positive. I may not always agree with the AV Club…

I’ve never met T.J. Miller. I don’t know T.J. Miller. But, even if I’ve found some of his work to be funny, everything about T.J. Miller has more red flags than the Beijing Olympics. He reminds me of a guy I used to know solely through a Dungeons & Dragons game who occasionally took a break from having his assassin…

Eh, the whole point of the thing is to have all the presidents. Not including him would have been like listing all the James Bond movies and not mentioning “Die Another Day” or making a list of Heisman Trophy winners and skipping O.J. Simpson. You can’t make a list then leave off the entries that suck, especially when…

I was thinking of a long, detailed screed on the subject, but then a metaphor occurred to me and I don’t think I can put my theory any more clearly than this: people who complain about “globalists” see America - and by extension themselves - as Superman, and the rest of the world is just trying to depower, destroy, or…

This episode in general and that sketch especially had the exact feeling that my workplace has this time of year: on any given day half the staff is off on vacation physically and the other half is checked out mentally, no one’s coming up with anything new, there are no leftovers left over, and literally anything that…

I think that knowing that Vader ultimately turned his back on the Dark Side at the end could easily have made Kylo more likely to follow in his footsteps. If we assume Ben Solo started out as a good kid with the best intentions, finding out that his father was this legendary badass - like all young boys want to be -…

With Lucifer being set in LA, it would be ironic if the truth is the exact opposite of my speculation: roller derby being practically unheard of in California but really popular in some other part of the US where the writer of this episode happened to be from.

He could definitely pass as human; what I’ve never been sure of is if “pink” is just the Kree equivalent of “white” or “Caucasian” (i.e., if they have the whole range of Caucasian skin tones, ranging from pale white to dark tan depending on how much sun they’ve been getting lately, with a pinkish hue just being a sort…

Something I’ve long wondered: is roller derby really big in California or something? I don’t think I’ve seen evidence of the existence of roller derby in real life since, like, the 80s, but I feel like I see a new roller derby episode of a TV show every six months or so.

How twisted would it be if Cain keeps repeatedly trying to atone for his defining sin by entering the Big Brother Big Sister program, but always ends up killing his Little Brother?

I’m actually kind of wondering if they whole reason the show used Fenris was because they knew what the wanted to do with the Stepford Cuckoos and wanted a way to set up the idea that mutant siblings can supercharge each others’ powers in advance of reuniting the triplets.

Honestly, I think they were banking on most people knowing absolutely nothing about Esme except what the show presented: she’s a telepath, she’s obsessed with getting her family back, and she’s hiding something. They were also probably hoping that we caught the brief mention that the lab was comparing the results of…

I have no idea if this is what they’re doing on the show and in the MCU in general, but in the comics Kree also come in a “pink”-skinned* variety that can pass for Caucasian humans. So if this were a comic, it would be possible that those are just Kree of a different ethnicity. But that doesn’t mean it’s what the show…

Eve Harlow? I hope her middle name isn’t “Lydsea” or “Sadley”or some other combination of those letters. Especially seeing as she was born in Moscow.

Cisco can travel between dimensions at will. There could be no Kryptonite on Earth-1 and he’d still have 51 other dimensions to get it from (well, 52, but it’s pretty clear he didn’t know about Earth-X until the crossover).

One way I’ve described Justice League to my friends is that it’s not a great movie, but at least it’s better than the worst MCU movies, which is more than the first three DCEU movies could say, in my opinion.

The timing of it definitely sucked - the time to raise the idea of a joint wedding was any time before Diggle started the impromptu ceremony - but if you consider the alternative being waiting until he pronounces Barry and Iris husband and wife and THEN saying “okay, now do us!,” that would seem even more like an…