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Dark Matter is weak, and Killjoys felt a bit formulaic. But 12 Monkeys is a pure joy to watch. Can't wait for the big reveals on exactly what Jennifer Goines means in the show.

All of them are dancing around the elephant in the room.

He is. It's just that A Song of Ice and Fire was not, and never has been his "magnum opus", the way everyone wants it to be. His longest storyline (Wildcards) stayed on course because he didn't write it himself apart for a few stories here and there. His only problem is the show. Without the...

If you happen to pick the Creepy Crawlies Halloween decoration, you have half a dozen pets in your garrison on an insta respawn. First is always undead, the other two are random for the zone. Plus you have the pet mistress that can heal your pet team. If you tore down your decorations for...

Hmmm, forgot that one. Should be looking to do it at least from time to time...

The pineapple one, but I'm on EU realms, so that's probably not going to be possible.

Saw an article on Disney's current strategy, and they are clearly edging their bets on their IP collection (witness SW). They are not that confident that a copyright extension is going to be possible.

I stopped farming the dailies after my mount, doing the Greench daily is more time consuming due to medium ass travel in old world and I still ended up with 1 Lounge Cushion missing. With 10 characters. The one brought at your garrison decoration goblin is a toy, not a pet. The pet tonk is a...

There's two who don't have Mad Max AT ALL.

Ok, so new years average list (score 5,4, 3, 2, 1 for top 5 choices, 1/2, 1/3 1/4 and so on the rest) yields 5 top contenders: Top 1 uncontested: Mad Max: Fury Road (average 4.27) Top 2-3: Star Wars episode 7 (average 2) and The Martian (average 1.85) Top 4-5: Kingsman (average 1.11) and Ex...

That, or they were "I know George too much, no way I'm doing that with him breathing on my neck..."

Seconded. The fun bit is that Amazon usually displays upcoming Baen & Tor books two months before their own websites list them. It used to be that you could search for books and tick them as "I have it" directly, but they dropped that (why? oh why?) and you can only do that from...

She went into politics, which is basically what she always knew (daughter - adopted - of major politician) and what the New Republic needed after the fall of the Empire. No time for Jedi training. The blame is laid on the "Knights of Ren", which Ben Solo joined (and take the moniker that comes...

Well, (really ep 9/10 spoilage)

5 down, one to go.

And yet, funnily enough, when you watch other movies, you don't get the same characters having the same scenes, etc. There's a difference between using archetypes and redoing the same movie with the same characters with just different faces.

This is the bit where some of the dynamics change, because the "escape from the Death Star" arc occurs at the beginning rather than in the middle of the movie. Poe is assuming the Leia role : he has the secret data, hides it in the droid he sends away when the "Empire" is going to capture him...

In this movie, Han is basically doing what Obi-Wan did in the original; he's the semi-legendary guy that "Luke" heard about who shows up unexpectedly (no sandmen in space), who tells our hero that all those stories about the Force are absolutely true, tries to arrange passage to the Rebellion...

The first set pictures that were all over twitter were all of his Tibet-pre-training period, so he did not look like he should.

My top 3 would be: - The Martian - Mad Max: Fury Road - Ant-Man Just checked 2016 and I have something like at least 18 movies lined up. Yikes.

I think Disney understands very well the reasons why Ep 1-3 should ignored as much as you can. You don't pretend they never happened, you just ignore them. Although I could totally understand if Snoke's appearance was revealed as a fake and he's in fact a scar-faced Gungan (we all know who...

But they can't. They've decided to keep Rey's exact origin a top-level secret, so they can't allude to anything. But the fight itself owes a lot to that final fight in TRJ, where Luke fights Vader and is basically losing, then Vader suddenly threatens to get to Leia, and Luke gets all bothered...

That's what he his. Hux has not the slightest respect for him, even the two stormtroopers we see turning back are obviously doing an "oh, shit, he's doing it again" moment. Everyone is only tolerating him because he's Snoke's pet jedi. The problem with the pirates in Han's ship is that they have...

JJA commented out that he feels cheated that he won't be directing Ep VIII now that he's read the script, so we JJA approves of the next movie. Make what you want out of this

Yea, people had been wondering about her going to be Killer Frost since she appeared on the pilot. But she was probably too popular to turn into evil, so using an alternate universe version works.

That's a very symbolic sequence. Up until that, you have totally faceless interchangeable stormtroopers. But the blood mark on his helmet make him an individual; all other stormtroopers are totally anonymous but he is now recognizable. And as an individual, he can make choices (and of course, he...

January 5th (S1.E5 Back to the Butcher). Speculation/spoilage based on book reading, avoid if you haven't read the books and don't want advance major spoilage.

Just as long as you realize that the new characters are exactly the old characters. I mean: - Snoke is Palpatine v2 (easy) - Kylo Ren/Ben Solo is Darth Vader/Annakin Skywalker v2 (easy; and that's even with name change and the "Ren" being a title like Darth, that's where the Knights of...

(book & ep 4+ spoilage)

Considering that Legion's Demon Hunters will essentially start close to 100, you don't need to hoard it for launch.

Fun bit: one of the guys I raid with came back recently. His mage's average ilvl is around 670, he still had 600 gear... but has a 725 staff. From his second dungeon

Yea, at that point, it's at best something that's on the back burner. That's too bad, there was a something that was promising in the EQ Next game.

In the books, Miller basically uses police authority from his boss, i.e. government backdoors to access the mail. Now, remember, this was written 5 years ago, pre-Snowden. These days, people are going to be very sensitive to government backdoors in their private stuff, so they clearly went to...

Fighting ships would, absolutely. If the USAF had stuff that could neutralize blackout/red tunnellin in their pilots, every fighter craft would have it. Because those who did not would be dogmeat.

Thomas Jane is 46. FYI. But I agree, he's a slightly different Miller than the one in the books. He still works for the story, he's a bundle of no-care/care contradictions, the-work-has-to-be-done look, and the only point that feels off is his growing obsession with Julie Mao. PS: Love the...

In other words, nobody knows the date of the book yet.

Yep. He's XO for about a day (or maybe two-three, if you allow for a "skip" over the Canterbury rerouting to the Scopuli), then his old ship gets blown up. It's trying to establish him as the guy who doesn't want power and all that, and he's only going to get captaining reluctantly because no...

There's an obvious move there. Have The Enterprise find Vin Diesel stranded on some backwater world.

Another nitpick is that the rocky moon stuff next to that planet seems waaaay too close to the Roche Limit to be stable.