Recent content by Arbitrary

The speculation is that to qualify for and keep any tax breaks the production received they had to finish up the already approved second season and release versus bailing on the whole thing. Season 1 is only eight episodes. Even if we lump in the second season that's only another eight. As a...

I appreciate the subtlety.

Shit, now I have to wait a week.

If it launches with race race race right out of the gate I expect a lot of the existing X-Files fanbase, which is pretty white, to tune out.

I expect Coogler to do a better job than Peele but run in to many of the same problems.

I've grown partial to Perfect Forest Warrior for general purpose. He's got an Onslaught aura and culls and I don't otherwise have either.

I got caught up and I like it. I'm interested in seeing where it's going. It is an incredibly subversive and degenerate piece of work. It does this thing where it introduces the sleezy or the bizarre and the show looks like it's going in one direction (in line with the assessment of the main...

You're supposed to discover feminism when you're getting older and find yourself replaced by the younger generation. You don't run your mouth when you're still young with a career ahead of you.

Everyone seen the movie Blow? With Johnny Depp? He plays marijuana and cocaine smuggler extraordinaire George Jung. I liked the movie and the soundtrack so why not check out the book too. After his empire collapsed he thought he had millions of dollars carefully concealed in offshore bank...

Is the movie actual bad then? Are we outrage marketing?

I know that things get close and they get close quickly but goddamn do I not want to have to be doing short-blade combat. Can I have a katana? How about a zweihander?

Voyager is at times very, very good. It just has less of those times than it's predecessors. It's a show that never recognized the opportunities it had. There is no "hey, let's use Andrew Robinson in more episodes" or "hey, I know we killed Weyoun but we should bring him back" equivalent...

Dunking on people years ahead of the curve