Sure, “losing one sense makes your other senses superhuman” is a hoary old speculative fiction cliche, but I don’t really have a problem with Connie always being the first person to notice stuff. A deaf person isn’t going to still be alive nine years into a zombie apocalypse if she doesn’t have her head on a swivel…

How hilarious would it be if he were sitting around listening to the Doobie Brothers’ “Jesus is Just Alright”?

A minor nitpick (that someone may have already addressed but I’m getting to this long after the fact and it’s all but impossible to check all the comments when there are as many as there are now) but:

I once saw an episode of Maher’s old show Politically Incorrect where we was complaining about some teacher who’d won an Educator of the Year award from some organization. I forget exactly what the teacher had done to get the award but the gist of it was that they’d devised some educational plan that made kids want to…

They did say in the episode that they’re going to Hilltop, so I certainly hope no one’s expecting them to go someplace else (fair enough that the reviewer missed that bit of dialogue, I just found it amusing to call the show out for being obvious about something that was supposed to be not just obvious but explicit). …

I really like the idea of the time jump (I believe they said it was a nine-year jump on Talking Dead, but I could be wrong and they could have been ballparking it) but how much do you want to bet they’re going to totally half-ass it? Like by ignoring that it’s not just Judith and baby Herschel that should have aged.…

They said that on Talking Dead too. It’d be  a stretch to say that means it’s definitely going to happen, but it’s definitely something they plan to do.

I’m not a entomologist, but I’d think cold would be the way to go. Get them cold enough and they should go into torpor, basically the spider equivalent of falling asleep. Then you can just let them starve to death and they probably wouldn’t feel it; do what the Doctor did in the episode, but crank up the AC in the…

I feel like this long list of bizarrely specific podcast categories was specifically chosen to highlight everything you could make a podcast about while still excluding every podcast I listen to except one (Hardcore History). Some of the categories - I’m especially thinking of Best Crime Podcast - seem less like an…

Yes, and I thought they also left out the goodnight/closing credits part too. It’s possible I’d just zoned out by that time, but I could swear that after the last sketch of the night they went to commercial, then right into that ... whatever that show is called with random vapid attractive people doing random things…

It’s like Batman using guns in BvS: it doesn’t ruin - or have any effect, really, on - any previous portrayals of the character or the character as a concept, and it didn’t even necessarily ruin that particular portrayal of the character, but it was a big red flag that they didn’t understand the character. And if…

You could be right - I can’t imagine Brian Henson hasn’t seen or at least heard of Meet the Feebles given his background - but the description in the review makes this thing sound like it’s literally just Who Framed Roger Rabbit with puppets instead of cartoons (there’s even a character in the commercials who looks…

I don’t know if it’s the actual first “dirty puppet” movie or just the earliest that I personally know of, but Let My Puppets Come has Meet the Feebles beat by 13 years.

Because as far as Firefox is concerned, “millennial” is just an adjective. The use of it as a noun is too new to be recognized by Firefox’s spellchecker.

I always assumed that “Into Darkness” did well because people liked the original Abrams Trek movie* so they figured they’d like the sequel; and “Beyond” didn’t do as well because people didn’t like “Into Darkness” and that turned them off seeing the next one. The actual quality of the movies wasn’t as big a factor in…

Do you mean Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry are “meh” by Hollywood standards? People definitely think they’re attractive by Hollywood standards. By which I mean People Magazine. They named Jackman “Sexiest Man Alive” and put Berry on the cover of their “50 Most Beautiful People” issue. They’re, like, the definition of…

Honestly, I thought Stephen Amell was terrible in the first season of Arrow and terrific by the third or fourth season, so if they can figure out what they did with him and do it with her, she’ll be fine. She certainly looks the part

I’m all for Disney rehiring Gunn, but they should do it because all evidence says that he’s a better person now than he was when he made those tweets and no one would have a job if anyone who ever said something they regret got fired, NOT because his accusers are alt-wrong shitheads. Considering who’s currently in…

I vastly preferred the goody-two-shoes version of Billy Batson, mostly because it never really made sense why the wizard would entrust such vast power to a kid who was kind of an asshole, and nothing says “the writer has forgotten the whole ‘Wisdom of Solomon’ thing” quite like seeing the big red cheese acting like a…

Back when he was called Captain Marvel, any utterance of the word “Shazam” would cause him to change. After the New 52 reboot, DC changed his superhero name to Shazam, and, if memory serves, he could say the word freely and only transformed if he wanted to.