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Schlocktober is BACK! Good times. I'm honestly not certain what the worst Simpsons episode is. The Simpsons doesn't tend to make a lot of truly "bad" episodes - there's a baseline of quality there. At their worst they're usually just forgettable, with either a tedious guest star, a dated...

I see the key trait of Survival Horror as vulnerability - you are a small, insignificant being amidst much greater terrors that you can't hope to fight. Anything that empowers the player, like the ability to fight off and defeat monsters, makes it so that it's no longer survival horror.

The continuity thing still surprises me. It seems like it would be a lot easier just to have "arcs", and then say that each arc is basically its own self-contained "universe" different from other versions of the character. Then have time flow relatively normally within each arc, or slower/faster...

I don't know if it would kill the genre, but what could really hurt Marvel's Grand Project would be over-commitment followed by panic retrenchment on the multiverse. How would that work? They'd go big on a ton of new films of increasingly obscure sources, both confident in their ability to...

I could see the creation of Ultron and the robots as the big initial rift between Captain America and Tony Stark that blows apart to a chasm by the end of the movie, destroying the Avengers as a group. After a movie where he had to stop a Hydra take-over of SHIELD's hover-carrier defense system...

@hentropy The plain fact is that police departments in every first world country have a hard time combating human trafficking BECAUSE the people being trafficked are poor, vulnerable, and many times born into the life or went into it at an early age. This. Even Neeson himself just recently...

It could be that we just had too high of expectations for Ridley Scott himself. Maybe his good films were always contingent on having good producers and screenwriters who could push back on stuff, and once he became Big Enough that he more thoroughly had control of the films he was making he...

1. I'd be really bummed if they tried to turn Jafar - scheming, clever, oozing manipulative Jafar - into some type of Poor Misunderstood Villain. Couldn't you just make Aladdin the live-action movie, and use that as a means to cast two young Middle East/South Asian actors in leading roles? Or...

I think that last one - "end is the beginning" - is the most likely. At this point, any ending of The Simpsons is going to draw deep on its massive well of characters and legacy of stories, and that seems like it would be the best one to do that. The only downside is that it would feel rather ...

Ugh, Daybreakers. They had an interesting, unique setup in the form of "what if humanity was involuntarily* transformed into vampires, but modern civilization survived?", and then wasted it on a stupid thriller plot. The premise would have been much better as a TV series, exploring how the...

One thing that's helping Marvel is the sheer number of bankable characters in the pipeline. If people get tired of Iron Man movies, they'll just sideline him and introduce somebody else while going with the rest. Hell, if people got tired of the entire Avengers cast after Avengers 2, they'd...

Agreed. It's not because I don't think we could terraform Mars or other planets, but because there probably won't be any real demand for it. If you have the capability to build space habitats and enclosed biospheres then we'll do that instead, especially the space habitats - you can choose the...

The atmosphere on Mars would provide some protection against radiation, although it wouldn't be as good as Earth's. It would also gradually reduce the atmosphere on terraformed Mars over time, but over an extremely long time period (hundreds of millions of years). Hydrofleurocarbons would be...

Being able to create sustainable "world domes"/habitats means that you don't really need to terraform planets to colonize outer space, and in fact you might not want to except as a curiosity. Having a habitat in space rotating to simulate gravity means you can customize the internal climate to...

Exactly. I love the butt-hurt defensiveness in his response - you just know he would be whining up a storm about historical inaccuracy if somebody cast a black man as Robert E. Lee in a Civil War movie. I also hate the Idris Elba Heimdall comparison. As if fictionalized aliens pretending to...