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Rob Bricken was the Editor of io9 from 2016-18, the creator of the poorly named but fan-favorite news site Topless Robot, and now writes nerd stuff for many places, because it's all he's good at.

Boba Fett is my favorite Star Trek character! Read more

Should be corrected momentarily, by the way. Read more

Huh. I knew it was Boromir — it's not like I don't know my Sean Bean fantasy characters — but typed Aragorn anyways. Heap all the scorn you want on me; I deserve it. Read more

For the record, while this list is obviously more about TV entertainment, I find George Romero's original Dawn of the Dead to be the greatest Christmas movie of all time. Read more

I see your point. I guess I was, momentarily, too focused on Superman's batch to concentrate properly. Read more

No, but if you press it Pez comes out of Cavill's neck. Read more

I think the better better question is: Why did Fox care? First Class looked for all the world like a reboot, and frankly, everybody was cool with that. We got to ignore Last Stand and Wolverine, got to start fresh, all was well. But now suddenly DoFP has Stewart and McKellen it? It's the all same continuity, despite Read more

Honestly, I want a digitally de-aged Sark program running around controlled by Cillian Murphy and an MCP that looks EXACTLY like it did in the original Tron. THE MCP DOES NOT CARE FOR YOUR VAIN VISUAL UPGRADES. Read more

Think about this — somewhere there's a universe that knows about parallel universes and can communicate with them... but their version of Fringe is only set in one universe. MIND. BLOWN. Read more

It's a stretch. You're technically right, but people have to do some gymnastics to make this connection work. Even if you consider "podracing" to be piloting — when Star Wars has an abundance of examples of actual pilots and piloting — all Anakin does is win one damn race on one backwater planet. Hardly "the best Read more

Man, if you though THIS article was full of snark and cynicism, you and I are both lucky you quit reading before tomorrow's first mail column. Read more

It's a constant struggle for me to keep from writing 1,000 words on every MST3K set. I try to be at least a little succinct, but believe me, I thought about it. And Largo, too! Read more

All right, one more thing: Maybe I'm being a moron about this open wound/infection thing, but it never even occurred to me that only death triggered zombification until so many of you espoused it here. Read more

And hell, while I'm clarifying shit, you guys are right, the Guv doesn't need a guide to the prison. However, he says in the episode he wants an inside man at the prison. What better way to do that than imprison Merle and his brother Daryl and let them escape? Because they're obviously gonna go back to the prison. Read more

Oh, and one more thing — as it stands, the Governor was seemingly willing to do anything, no matter how horrible, for the good of Woodbury. He was awful, but awful with a purpose in mind. Read more