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I was reminded when visiting Hawaii that the floral-print shirts are properly called "aloha shirts." A Hawaiian shirt is a shirt made in Hawaii. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

This was outstanding. So glad to see M. Emmet Walsh in a bit part, too! [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

Sony Clarifies That ‘Spider-Man: Miles Morales’ Is a Separate, But Equal Game [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

I'm all for strong unions, but I wonder if there's a way to separate out the collective bargaining power of the police unions to negotiate for health care, raises, and so forth from their seeming ability to prevent any meaningful reforms to their… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

If anyone can think of a way of using them - hit me up Ooh, I have an idea! Let's set up sites on the dark web that allow members to access sophisticated malware to siphon funds from corporations, financial institutions, and nonprofits… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Welcome to the both of you! travelingthyme, those neighborhood cats don't deserve you anyways. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - Over two years ago

Or is this about how the answer is "actually, we don't know because the people who were saying it was bad were super-sketch"? This seems to be the case. That last Guardian link has a lot of detail on the sketchy nature of… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Having thought about it a bit, I have now talked myself into believing that Bernard is himself an android, though most of my evidence comes from the last episode and not this one. Ford created him as a sort of replacement for Arnold and gave him a… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

so has anyone here seen The Wretched? how is it? It's... fine, I guess? It's a very commercially-viable combination of a teen summer movie and a haunted-house / monster-movie creeper. I enjoyed it but it's nothing at all new and I went in… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

I'm pretty sure Alice was standing in front of the screen during the only exciting part of Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxells—I'd be pissed at her too. [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

Here is the view of the world from 9th Avenue, though I prefer Saul Steinberg's version. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Homecoming: Season 2
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FanFare post - Over two years ago

Yeah, I did catch that, though Yang Zhang still professes his love for the movie and I can't agree there (maybe if I liked Independence Day I'd be more inclined to enjoy this kind of movie, but that's not me). Also, you'd have to be pretty… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

This was a good video essay, thanks. I tried a few other video essays from the author's channel and liked them. He even has kind of an apologia for The Wandering Earth which made me appreciate some of its Chinese cultural themes a little bit… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

One of the user reviews for this on IMDB: Brad goes to Neptune but the script comes from Uranus [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I love this bit from the Blake memo in the latest Peteypedia: Yeah, Petey, I read your fucking memos. A little weird, considering you could just turn to me and say any/all of this shit as we are currently occupying the same physical space, but… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I must say that for a super-science organization, the Loop is shockingly lax when it comes to containment and clean-up protocols. [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

SMBC to the rescue
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MeFi post - Over two years ago

Yeah, I dunno. As a finale this made no sense to me, both in terms of what actually happened and in terms of what they decided to spend their time on (to wit, comic relief in the Tatooine cantina with Blade Runner splashed on it). I'm still not… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I'm not loving this stillsuit design - it doesn't even cover the mouth! But I guess I can make allowances for actors wanting to act. I'm sooooooooo tired of texts with one woman to every five men. Dune was written in the dark ages, but there's… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

I didn't actually like this one that much, it was the most episodic episode so far and I guess I'm finally kind of tired of Groundhog's Day stories. This seems like the kind of episode that you would run late into the season when the writers are out… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

This was quite a journey. The cute house owner has classic "online comedy short" hair. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

I think I basically agree with the AV Club review of this: "...it feels oddly out of time, like it’s attempting to pick up where it left off without any acknowledgment that 30-plus years have elapsed, let alone ways TV storytelling has evolved… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I think the last song playing during the last Holly scene was "the Passenger" sans vocals, but I'm not sure, can anyone confirm? If so that points towards a sequel. an extremely long X-files episode I had that exact same… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I reread The Peripheral just prior to reading this, and while I enjoyed Agency it seemed a little slight overall. It was nice to see a sort of optimistic tone take hold, but it didn't really engage me as much as the relative… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

Me... Metafilter has spoiler tags now?
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FanFare post - Over two years ago

I'm only up to episode 8 so far myself, but my overall impression is that they improved on Cibola Burn immensely. That book has always seemed like a terrible slog to me for some reason that I can't put my finger on, even though it's got a… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I liked how Bobby was able to talk her way out of this bad situation rather than blasting through it, and Avasarala's two-pronged approach to distributing the damning video of Errinwright seems like a smart move. [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I was honestly hoping that the compression algorithm really didn't scale and all of their work had been for naught, which would have seemed like a pretty on-brand way to end the series (and realistic for real-world Silicon Valley). [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

Not sure I'm loving this whole "Jon turns himself into Cal to experience life as a human" angle, but I don't personally tend to find Jesus stories all that interesting, and still I'm holding out hope for a more interesting explanation… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I was pleasantly surprised by this season, and it made me go back and binge out on seasons two and three while I was laid up last weekend - I originally started to watch the first season, but it never quite got me, because I'm sorry, but puppets just… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I'm not sure young Will would know this, but you could read June's name as a reference to Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating emancipation. [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I'm not really sure what possessed me now, but while laid up a year or two ago I read through the entirety of The Boys and my god, it is so bad. Apart from all of the juvenile button-pushing, it's like Ennis never realized that The Dark… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

Hark! from those shadowy depths thy voice / Mournfully echoes, "AUTH".
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MeFi post - Over two years ago

the cake candles mark anniversaries from his his imprisonment, yes? That's interesting, I hadn't really considered it but I don't see what else they could be marking. According to Peteypedia, Veidt was declared missing in 2012 and his… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

There's also scansion, which from my amateur investigations, seems like a difficult problem (there's a data problem, that it's difficult to find open source data with reliable information on stresses, and a poetry problem, which is that human beings… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

So Veidt is like... imprisoned somewhere? By whom? It doesn't exactly look like Mars. I was excited to see Petey of Peteypedia actually become a character in the show, as the ancillary materials from him were written in a pretty distinctive voice… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

charges that HJ was a Nazi sympathizer However, if we buy the theory that HJ was actually Angela's grandfather, Will Reeves, then he may in fact have been influenced by the German WWI propaganda that his father wrote the note on on the… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I have been going through the Peteypedia articles, which are strongly recommended for nerdy back-story obsession purposes. One thing I enjoyed was this bit from "Veidt declared Dead": White House press secretary Ezra Klein told… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

Yeah, this is shaping up to be really good so far, and I really loved the show's digs at the Zack Snyder movie. How that guy could have been so faithful to the comic and yet have misunderstood it so completely is an enduring mystery to me. [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

What is the deal with those exit signs, anyways? [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

One thing that was very nice about the treatment of her character is that they lean into the distant father rather than the "schizogenic mother" when unpacking David's issues. They might lean away from it, but Syd telling the… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I liked the suggestion here that in this universe, the CDC is actually composed of professional scientists and doctors, and Abbey Arkane is just an outlier on the competence scale. [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

It's a bit old by now but Recitify has probably some of the best acting of any show I've seen in the last several years, and I'm pretty sure it's on Netflix now. You need to watch several episodes to get into it though. [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I'm happy to keep reading threads about this show, FWIW, but to me the only parts of it that are really working for me are the horror bits (and some of the swamp noir type stuff around Avery's machinations and iron-fisted control of the town). I am… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I'm fairly sure this has reprogrammed me, The Parallax View style. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Ok, I know this is a dumb idea but if Bran warged into Dany at the moment she went all dracarys on King's landing it would explain why they didn't show her face during the sack. [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

He has seen his own country men becomes monsters. Maybe it's more clear in the books, but raping and pillaging after the sack of a city definitely seems to be standard operating procedure in this universe, so I don't think Jon would be… [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

I thought this episode was mostly really good and am surprised at its poor reception here. I do agree that the show handled Jaime's arc poorly, partly because it has actually been handled very well in the books up to this point, and that they rushed… [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

Sansa was molded by a naive, lying father, Cersei, Ramsey, and Little Finger. On the iron throne, she would turn into Cersei v2. I totally agree with this. The lessons Sansa has learned from all of her horrifying experiences have been… [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

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