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My local Regal multiplex is $15.50 for a matinee now. That is a bad enough price that I considered going to see something in the theater for the first time in years last fall but saw the prices and decided it wasn't worth it, and didn't go to a movie until this spring. Part of the issue is that...

Oh most definitely, which also astonishes me as someone who only saw the very forgettable first movie, but my understanding is that the franchise has reinvented itself several times by now. The reasons the number of Police Academy movies is extraordinary to me is because a) each one made less...

Surely if some combination of weapons and armor did not generally exceed the performance of being unarmed an unarmored, people would never have bothered with the stuff. It seems to me like the basic "problem" here is that Fighter is just a much more conceptually broad and flexible class than...

A spell list thematic to the class that borrows from the contents of the other spell lists represents exactly what I want. Choosing to be a bargain basement cleric, a store-brand druid, or yet another arcanist with the same set of arcanist spells as three other classes, would be the terrible way...

I guess you took my saying it "suffered" from Cannes to refer to it's box office. I was just talking about why the critical reception was so oddly negative. On the financial point, I think the value of the franchise in the 1980s really has only tangential weight on the value as a nostalgic...

It seems it suffered quite a bit from a Cannes premier, which basically meant it disproportionately went straight to the section of professional critics with high brow pretensions and minimal tolerance for franchise fare, the consensus of which then influenced other critics.

Well, just got back from seeing this one. I really liked it; didn't love it. If, like me, you go in just hoping it is a reasonably satisfactory send-off for the character and not terrible, I think it delivers on that. Sighs of relief all around. I don't think it has the iconic action scenes or...

Cordoning them off to be a master of one of three trades goes against the spirit of them being a jack of them all. The bard to me is a character who ignores the boring lecture about the grand taxonomy of magical types and just picks up the smattering of spells that suits his needs. Interesting...

So to my mind the problem with 5e spellcasting abilities, from an accessibility standpoint, is that they subtly work differently for each class, but get described in a mostly boilerplate several paragraphs of text, such that someone reading the entries for multiple classes for the first time...

I think choosing Arcane, Divine, or Primal is a complete and abject lore failure. To me the essence of the class is being the class that transgresses the arbitrary boundaries between what other classes can do. A Bard should be a liminal, transgressive figure, much as the historic wandering...

I have no skin in the Canada game. But given that the show is shot in Toronto metro area, and the standard thing would be to do this episode on location in the Toronto area and have it stand in for New York (or possibly some other American city), I really appreciated the "Kirk thinks it's New...

For a kid with the attention span for something not made specifically for them and no prior Star Trek knowledge, the average episode of TOS was probably in some ways easier to follow than Prodigy. It's slower paced and usually drops fewer difficult concepts (since there isn't a long franchise...

Well I do have a MA in History, a J.D., and an LL.M. in international and comparative law, so you'll forgive me if I am more confident in my own sense of law writ large through history than people summarily dismissing me on the internet. But I am quite happy to not discuss it in more detail.

A. Star Trek has to fundamentally be about people recognizable as people, or else audiences, 100% made up of actual humans, will not relate to them. This is a franchise that actually faced a bit of an inflection point on that front, because during the early era of Next Gen, Roddenberry had...

I'd make the Dragon have recently taken over a major city. Firstly it provides stakes, secondly it provides a reason and capacity for the Dragon to have recruited lots of humanoid minions, thirdly it means there are probably several interesting spaces for a Dragon fight in close proximity...

A system where one entity wants to deprive a given individual (or party) of liberty (or demand extraordinary actions, payments, etc. of them) is inherently adversarial for the defendant's part, absent a future of utterly selfless beings. The degree to which we officially tolerate adversarial...

What I find surprising is that anyone would think regressing to a legal system that operated under the inherently untruthful pretense of not being adversarial was utopic. Which is all to say, that what an "advanced" legal system is is very much in the eye of the beholder, and that given that...

Well I've now actually finished the first season (hopefully not the whole series), and I'll say that, while I enjoyed it once it got past some of the early X-character-needs-to-learn-Y-lesson episodes, I have a bold theory as to why the show has had underwhelming results: it's not quite there as...

Um... my reading was simply that, as is typical for military courts, both counsels report to the Judge Advocates division (or whatever) of Starfleet. And while that is intrinsically problematic, they didn't want to make an episode about how her appointed attorney did their ethical duty to be a...

Right, that's the part that I am suspicious of. I just think they get enough value of having the first season of even a cancelled show some people really like (and children's programming and Star Trek both run comparatively evergreen) to justify whatever the residuals could be, especially when...