It really all depends upon whether it is a reboot or a continuation at some point in the future when the main cast characters are either dead or retired due to age. An actual reboot--retelling the original storyline--could be really good, giving JMS the chance to "correct" things he wishe...

I'm not a luddite. But tonight I was at a friend's house listening to songs I know very, very well on his turntable. Holy crap, I've missed surface noise. Physical Graffiti hasn't sounded this good in 30 years. I ditched my 400 or so vinyl records when CDs came to the forefront. I really regret that...

My goodness, this is an amazing documentary.

https://youtu.be/YqNnhgEyQCU

I've loved him since Top Secret. This is just wonderful and sad.

I like zombies. The zombie apocalypse is an utterly ridiculous idea given the fact that the planet would be 100% uninhabitable roughly 10 days after the loss of power disabled the safety controls on nuclear reactors and chemical plants, but still, they're fun stuff. I've hate-watched The Walking Dea...

I've only heard a couple of tracks from it, and I wasn't terribly impressed. I need a long car ride so I can stream the entire album.

I loved it for what it was, and it was a wonderful mashup of Oceans 11 , Aliens , and Die Hard . Great cast and solid action. I wish they'd pulled a bit harder on the time travel/repeating thread. Time travel/repeating? I missed that. Do you mean the other groups that were were sent in previously t...

I loved it for what it was, and it was a wonderful mashup of Oceans 11, Aliens, and Die Hard. Great cast and solid action.

I wish they'd pulled a bit harder on the time travel/repeating thread.

For everything the show's getting right, it's messing up a dozen things. Vegas isn't supposed to be Gomorrah, it's supposed to be an orderly place where all the techies went. I don't care that there was no hand of god, but having a mini-stand by Flagg's guys? C'mon man. Oddly, my wife has no familia...

Six episodes in and we finally get Trash.

Don't like what was done with the bomb. Don't care for the changes to Dayna, the Judge, and Tom's stories in Vegas.

But damn the guy who's playing Harold is killing it.

Harold's journey is really being glossed; he's full-on creep from the beginning. In the book he had a much more significant journey and a chance at redemption that just isn't there in the show. Having been familiar with the story since the late '70s, I'm just now realizing that Harold's the most im...

There've been so many attempts to bring it to the big screen, going back to the original one by George Romero. I'm not going to say it's unfilmable, but it's certainly looking that way.

I have to agree that the non-linear format is not only extremely confusing, but it ruins just about everything that was good about the first half of the book -- while adding nothing. Exactly. I don't get how anyone involved with the project thought this was a good idea. It rips the entire story up,...

Quentin Tarantino has ruined storytelling. The non-linear approach to this adaptation ruins it. My wife has not read the book nor seen the original miniseries, and she's utterly lost. Why on Earth did the showrunners think this was the way to hook people who were unfamiliar with the source material?...

I had another brother, my last brother left, die this week. I also got a promotion where I’m making twice as much money. I’m in a new relationship, buying a house, taking a vacation in two weeks.... the petty squabbles on this site are so meaningless. I’ve already been taking a break. Maybe we all ...

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Better than "okay". Whether you acknowledge it or not, this is a big deal. Then again, if you were a child during the Bush years, you have no idea how big of a deal this is.

More winning. Serbia and Kosovo have agreed to normalize economic ties, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday, hailing what he called a "major breakthrough" more than a decade after Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008. Trump, speaking in the Oval Office before a meeting ...

Here for the record is the non-sequitur at the heart of that fervently spun misframing. 1) The incumbent is a piss-poor president. (Undeniably true - there's a whole heap of evidence to support that assertion). 2) Ergo anyone but the incumbent must inevitably be an improvement. (Undeniably false - ...

The early 70's was quite different than the landscape we find ourselves in now. There was no impact from social media, cell phones, the web, PC's were not invented yet, no cable TV and living rural we had about 5 channels most of which went off the air at specific times, and the fact that most of u...

He is a little younger but I don't think he is that young. Of course, I hardly remember the Bush years that well because much of it happened during my childhood. The Bush years were okay, but god- damn that Patriot Act shit, with its "exclusion zone" where Constitutional freedoms are not ...

Here for the record is the non-sequitur at the heart of that fervently spun misframing. 1) The incumbent is a piss-poor president. (Undeniably true - there's a whole heap of evidence to support that assertion). 2) Ergo anyone but the incumbent must inevitably be an improvement. (Undeniably false - ...