One of the oddities of serialized fiction becoming the norm on television and much more common in print and at the movies is that people who know for damn well that a larger story is being told still react as if any temporary development or opening status quo is an immutable condition. I first noticed […]
I took the test: “Which Member of the Justice League are you?” and the result was, “Don’t be fucking stupid. You’re not a member of the Justice League. There’s no way ten vaguely phrased questions can possibly equate you to a fictional character from a goddamned comic book. Don’t you have ever better things to […]
WALKING DEAD fans: if you’re among the folks who think so-and-so’s survival is “a total cheat,” grow up. Listen: characters in action-oriented fiction, which this particular show is, survive building collapses, ground-zero explosions, falls from great heights into water, and rollover car crashes, all the time; they do so because part of the power of […]