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I was pretty indifferent to the early episodes, but the last 3 or 4 will make me sad if this is the end (and I assume it will be*). That history suggests that the inevitable (DVD) movie in a couple years will be completely awesome, as the show really does jump in quality when the people...

As for Banks, I would strongly suggest reading Player of Games and Use of Weapons before deciding on a verdict of reading the rest of his stuff. I'm also rather fond of Matter, Surface Detail, and Against a Dark Background, though the latter is both a microcosm of Banks' political views...

Spent too much free time plowing through Seveneves. My brief review is: "Eh."

I really need to reread Anathem. At first blush, I thought it was a forgettable mishmash of all of Stephenson's earlier works - a technological priesthood here, a universities-as-nuclear-waste-depositories there. It wasn't until I got to the goofy ending dealing withthat I wondered if that...

I rather liked Deepness, especially the concept ofbut Children is completely forgettable, imo. Scalzi's usually entertaining, even if Fuzzy Nation is about 70% copy-pasting The Android's Dream, but I would heavily advise you to skip Zoe's Tale. Was thinking about jumping into Stephenson's...

As one of the "pure logic, no charisma" crowd myself, I'm fine with him, though I can easily see how huge chunks of prospective audience wouldn't be. That said, he should never be doing live unscripted ad reads like on this week's episode. I get what the joke was supposed to be, but woof...

Just to go meta, I liked John Wick more than this. There wasn't a movie between John Wick and Max I liked more than Max though. (If Kingsman was 2 hours of fireworks/church-scene level insanity, then it would have been in the running.) That said, the writing of the ending was rather crap...

Sometimes, I wonder. I sit and I think "Could I become Itlan? Could I become so deranged by my team's brief moments of success that I lost all connection with reality?" Then I read the Patriots defenders in this thread and realize "Fuck no, you guys are nuts". You actually believe that a...

Jesus Christ. Do we really have to sit through the whole movie, or can we just jump to the end, where the Patriots, fueled yet again by "Nobody believes in us!", demolish the Colts again in the AFC title game and go on to win the Super Bowl, being the first team to win back-to-back Super...

That's pretty much my ratio as well, and the first thing out of my mouth was "What happens with Barnwell?" That said, I get the feeling Grantland doesn't actually pull in much revenue. If it shuts down tomorrow, it would roughly cost the Disney conglomerate less than their taking a flyer on...

No, the "problem" is that Blizz has de-incentivized daily activities (and dungeons in general) such that for the average person, they log in once a week, do LFRs, and get in a weekly-ish Harrison Jones or Garrison questline while they're waiting for those LFRs. Everything else is inside the...

Did the movie really not make the synthetic asteroid concept clear enough to audiences? It was the Age of Dinosaurs until the K-T impact. It would have been the Age of Humans until the Ultron Fake Asteroid impact. (Ultron literally says that whatever comes next will be metal based.)...

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On one hand, it was the most Justified-y finale possible. The season's new bad guys get killed off, Raylan rides off to more adventures, and pointed conversation with Boyd is exchanged. On the other hand, there was nothing in this finale to stop the show from coming back next January as Miami...

Remember when the Terminator Salvation movie was built around the question of what Marcus was... except the first fucking trailer revealed it? Glad to see all the lessons were learned from that. /eyeroll (Actually, I don't entirely blame them for repeating the mistake. The overwhelming...

You should be going to Grantland first anyway - they're great (and not just because they agree with me that the Vikings are the most interesting team over the next half decade, if you were starting from scratch).

While that's possible, the biggest surprise of Free Agency for me hasn't been the trades, it's been that the Redskins haven't done anything at QB. I thoughteveryoneassumed they were doing something there this offseason, and while it is true there was nothing available at the position to bring...

I think this looks just fine... but then again I legitimately enjoyed Jack Reacher. MI 2 is, of course, terrible, probably the worst movie Cruise, Woo, Ron Moore, and everyone else involved has ever made.

/offtopic The only good thing about that "The Avengers" revival was realizing, after I had gotten into his standup stuff a few years later, was that Eddie Izzard was the main goon. Mind blown.

From what I understand, Trent Richardson is highly likely to win on appeal - those just aren't grounds to void a contract. Yeah, Richardson sucks, but that's not enough to break the (terrible) trade they made for him.

Apparently they could get the deal done because the Packers have given up on keeping Bulaga. Given that Rodgers is so good that only the quality of his OL slows him down, I'm not sure this is the best outcome.

Marshall to the Jets is just clearing the cap room for Cobb to go to Chicago, isn't it. /sigh And we already know what is going to happen to Seattle, they will drop to good but not clear-conference-favorite status. Between St Louis and Arizona QB questions and SF coaching questions,they...

Fox's "Woops!"*, which ran in Fall of 1992. And yeah, I thought about the same thing when I heard about Last Man on Earth. This is the show I am most interested in seeing this TV season; even with Miller and Lord involved, I can't conceive of it succeeding. *Featuring a pre-Sliders Rembrandt!

Meh. Does anyone think he can hold up for an entire season anymore? It sounded like everyone assumed he would be back, but is there any reason to expect anything more than the Broncos to barely win the division and then get bounced out in the widcard or divisional round?

Again, we aren't talking about the best team, we're talking about the best situation. It's entirely possible that the "objectively" best AFC teams over the next few years are Patriots, then Steelers/Ravens in some order, even the Bengals, andthenthe Colts, but the AFC title game remains...

It was weird how they never even shot the final episode from Season 1 - I was looking forward to the special effects extravaganza they were hinting at, with nearly a dozen mutants finally using their powers full blast to stop Sylar. All silliness aside, it's ironic that the issue Season 2 had...

The disgusting thing is, the Patriots will continue to be the favorite in the AFC. The Colts are still likely a year+ away, and the AFC North will continue to beat each other up before one of them gets to the Patriots. Sure, one of these years, Brady "leaves" (realizes he's about to be...

Seahawks 24 Patriots 21 I can't think of another game in recent memory where the actual matchup is this good yet I actively want both teams to lose.

Yeah, December 2015 is actually relatively packed as far as big budget movies go, with Star Wars and (probably) another The Davinci Code the week before, and Hunger Games, James Bond, and The Martian still hanging around. Whereas Guardians of the Galaxy proved that the deadzone of August can...

I just got home so I have no idea on this game, but either last year or the one beforewasgood enough to keep on in the background.

I'm preemptively worried about Dillahunt's character's motivation. I sure hope they aren't going down the "Arlo's Buried Treasure" route AGAIN.

Err, yes, it's an adaptation of a well regarded foreign show. So "stupidest show" may not be accurate. "Stupidest Press Release", on the other hand? This show has got it on lock. From the scheduling announcement NBC put out: "But what the hosts and guests don?t know is that this moment...

Looks like the boys wanted to shake things up for Season 6. Hopefully the new New York location and money level mean we'll have some wackier plots. Edit: Credits said Stephen Colbert came back to do Professor Impossible, so that's nice to see.

Eh, a lot of solo athletes like to go into their concentration zone, where they ignore the existence of everyone else and focus on their thing alone (and don't want anyone interrupting them). It wouldn't surprise me if kickers fall under that category.

Being completely honest here: as I sat thinking about the game during the Patriots blowout, the worst part was going to be how Barnwell would eviscerate the GB coaching decisions. As always, Barnwell delivers.

I'll be rooting for... terrorists. Or an asteroid strike. Whatever.

Christ, Belichick was almost smiling there. It was the most frightening thing I've seen in my life.

If Belichick isn't the best coach of all time, he's the best in the last 30 years at least. Imagine if he was as competent as a GM.

Am I the only one that thinks Luck looks like a Middle Eastern terrorist with his gameday beard going? He needs to start thinking about his advertising options.

Do you think Satan will have to put out a press release saying he loves his sons (Carroll and Belichick) equally and can't pick favorites for the Super Bowl?