Unless the person setting this up intends to compete personally (in which case I suspect the setup would be less “Battle Royale” and more “Most Dangerous Game”) I’d be willing to bet their actual fantasy is that some unrealistically badass mofo who would be played by the Rock or John Cena if this were a movie shows up…

In my hypothetical, the routine isn’t “move around a lot.” It’s move back and forth between their home turf and a warmer spot, but - and again, this is just my hypothetical - Lydia is too dim to realize that they’re moving between two spots on a predictable schedule for a reason, like a cat that knows that its owner…

So what you’re saying, to be perfectly clear, is that you believe that a layer of insulation between an object and an environment that is colder than that object will NOT slow the rate at which that object loses heat to that environment unless the object is constantly actively generating heat?

I ain’t no high falutin’ scientician but I do know that coffee doesn’t produce body heat either and yet it stays hot a lot longer in a thermos than in a porcelain mug. Insulation doesn’t warm something up, but it does slow the rate at which it loses heat regardless of whether it’s actively generating heat or simply…

Lydia ain’t exactly a chatterbox so I buy her not bringing it up. But someone should have given it a moment of thought and said “hey, those guys live outdoors, how does that even work in the winter?” and asked her.

Yeah, they’re pretty bad about grilling Lydia for information. They’ll be like “how many Whisperers are there?” and she’ll be all “I dunno. Some” and they’ll just get distracted or sense that she’s feeling fragile right now and let it go.

The gentleman’s imcomplete.

I really wish I could trust the show’s level of attention to detail enough to believe that the fact that Lydia seemed to be wearing a much lighter coat than anyone else was a sly suggestion that it wasn’t really THAT cold, and that most of these people have just never been through a really rough winter before.

Snow is a great insulator so I can just about buy that zombies under a layer of snow would stay functional longer than ones standing up in the open (let’s face it: there’s going to be a temperature below which all zombies freeze, and one above which all zombies are fine, and anywhere in the middle you’re going to have…

They were leaning a little TOO hard into “show don’t tell” on that Alpha scene. It was supposed to indicate that the Whisperers had left the area and gone someplace warmer* (and I could swear Beta did have a really vague line about “when you get back” or something like that) but we’d have to trust the show not to just…

You need god-tier non-mutant supers (or a lack of god-tier mutant supers) for the bigotry metaphor to work. It makes perfect sense for people to look at Magneto and Apocalypse and say that mutants are too dangerous to exist. There’s no parallel to racism, because black people or Jewish people or gay people don’t have…

You’re kinda right that it’s hard to see how the X-Men would improve the MCU, but the MCU could definitely improve the X-Men.*

Counterpoint: When studios are confident, they take chances and make movies they wouldn’t make if they were worried about the bottom line. But when studios get competitive, we get seven different Robin Hood movies in production at the same time.

“What’s Wrong with Tanya” might be my all-time favorite non-Jeopardy-based SNL gameshow sketch. Another contender would be “Who’s More Grizzled?”

Back in the good old days when I had a functioning DVR, I used to pause at the beginning of SNL and do chores to build up a fast forward buffer, and if I found myself getting with only 10 minutes or so of backlog left, I would let the commercials play to make sure I had enough buffer to forward through the musical…

They usually end the In Memoriam with a clip of one of the bigger names on the list saying something poignant from an iconic role. Like a few years ago, when Leonard Nimoy died, they had a clip of Spock saying “I am now and always will be your friend.” I was really expecting them to end this year’s montage with Stan…

This is the first Oscars predictions article I’ve read (not this year, ever) that acknowledges what I’ve pointed out (okay, complained about) many times in the past: the Academy will bend over backward to give the Best Visual Effects award to the “least juvenile” movie. Most people - even industry writers who should…

Hey, those porcelain people were in Oz the Great and Powerful. When they say “stories and characters in Oz that haven’t been previously explored” I wanna see something completely new. Something that wasn’t even in the books. How can something not be previously explored when it was in a book? I wanna see something…

It’s a well known fact that SNL hasn’t been funny since whenever the person telling you about it was a kid.

She’s got one of those “flavor of the moment” songs that you literally can’t listen to a non-specialized radio station for an hour without hearing right now. I’d say but she’s considerably more famous than Rachel Brosnahan, who hosted a few weeks back - even if Brosnahan is the one more likely to still be in the…