That joke works better on Star Trek, where they’re all prim and proper and dignified and everyone tries to pretend they’re not just doing sex stuff in the holodeck and that must be someone else’s mess. On the Orville they’d totally just have a “wipe down the equipment when you’re done” rule.

I’m thinking the Planetary Union is a lot less structured than we’re all expecting it to be as a stand-in for the Federation. More like the UN than a government unto itself. Just a bunch of planets (usually) at peace with each other, probably having trade relations, maybe embassies, and protected by (or at least able…

Just because they have artificial gravity doesn’t mean they have total gravity control. I have temperature control in my home, but that doesn’t mean I can turn it up to 500 degrees or make it super hot in just one room and cool in the rest of the house.

I’ve been in a lot of churches and I can 100% guarantee you there isn’t a priest in the world who knows me by name, much less one who could recognize my voice in a confessional.

Honestly, while Christmas had become a tradition, New Year’s makes a lot more sense as the holiday for a show about time travel to highlight. It’s a holiday ABOUT time.

Not to mention that Confession can be done anonymously, without the priest even seeing your face. Even if they were keeping track of the things people confessed, they wouldn’t be able to link them to anyone.

I’m admittedly only skimming through the comments so I may be getting a wrong impression, but I find it oddly telling that the two complaints I’m seeing over and over again are “These aren’t the actual worst movies, just movies that offend your sensibilities!” and “Ready Player One offends my sensibilities so it…

It reads like a bot programmed with Poe’s Laws of robotics.

There was a time when “F” reviews weren’t that uncommon, and there was also an understanding (at least with some AV Club reviewers) that “F” movies were so bad they were worth seeing if you were in the right mood - like “Battlefield Earth” and “The Room” type stuff - and “D-” was the grade for movies that were…

I think I’ve heard of maybe 10 of these movies. And I don’t live in a rural town that only gets the biggest blockbusters; I live near theaters that show art films, anime, and Bollywood movies.

(Obviously I had no idea it was based on a non-“Frankenstein” novel or had any basis in historical fact)

I watched a surprising amount of “The Terror” convinced that it was all building up the them finding Victor Frankenstein and a twist reveal that the series was ... I guess you’d call it a prequel to the framing device of the novel “Frankenstein.” Maybe they’d find Victor in the middle of the season, there’d be one…

Yeah, I get that everyone has their own tastes and asking people to divorce the character as an entity from their role in the plot might be unrealistic at best and proof that I’m the one missing the point at worst, but I feel like calling Clara the worst New Who companion because of all the Impossible Girl stuff (as…

If they were determined to put her in Man of Steel, she would have made a great Lana Lang.

That isn’t even close to the first time Spider-Man died. That issue came out in 2003. The first time I know of that Spidey died was in the 80s, and I doubt that was actually the first time. And it’s happened WAY more than three times.

Okay, I’d be lying if I said the Godzilla sequel trailer doesn’t look kinda cool, but it commits one of my movie trailer pet peeves: it contains dialogue that is incredibly obviously re-edited, possibly from multiple scenes, to say something that isn’t in the actual movie. I mean, best case scenario they just trimmed…

I haven’t even heard of any of these movies, but then my movie watching habits are such that the only movie I saw this year that wasn’t reviewed by the AV Club was the My Hero Academia movie, so maybe I should just shut up if I have nothing to add to the conversation.

It’s one of those comics where some characters are very obviously drawn to look like real life actors as if to say “this is who should play this character in the movie,” and the character Angelina Jolie plays, Fox - a fox-themed Catwoman analogue in the comic - is drawn to look like Halle Berry (okay, that one might…

Whether or not films about the space program count as a “shared universe” (and I’d argue that they don’t, but that argument would be long and boring and drift into why I find the whole “Tommy Westphall” thing more exasperating than I should) they’re definitely not the “original” one, as they’re predated by a good…

Exactly. The thing that always bugged me the most about the anti-vax crowd was the implicit notion that they’d rather their children die than require more effort to raise.