I expect the “deep dive” into the Republic/First Order stuff will come later. Keep in mind that Rebels didn’t begin tying its characters into the larger Rebel Alliance and franchise mythology until the end of season 1, after it had taken the time to establish its own characters and storylines (which made season 1…

Even though that song was basically just the same earworm refrain repeated 20 million times in a row, and oh hell now I’ve got it stuck in my head again make it stop! That repetition was almost as annoying as the sudden attacks of AutoTune. I was working in a bookstore when that song came out and I had to endure…

I find Auto-Tune unbearable. At least, that thing that’s done with it to distort a singer’s voice and make it sound robotic (the Cher song “Believe” is the earliest example I was aware of) is the equivalent of nails on a chalkboard to me — only much worse, since I don’t actually mind nails on a chalkboard that much. I…

Not at all. Rand’s philosophy may superficially appear to be saying “Full freedom for everyone,” but what it’s really saying is “Full freedom for the superior few, including the freedom to dominate and oppress everyone else.” Which is exactly the opposite of respect for individual differences. It’s contempt for those…

I never saw anything Randian in The Incredibles. I took it more as a pro-diversity message, that people should be free to be themselves and express their own individual strengths and cultures rather than being pressured to conform to a single societal norm. It wasn’t that some people are absolutely better than…

Giving the Coyote a voice was something that Jones only did on those few occasions when he pitted Wile E. against Bugs Bunny, a character who requires a more verbal antagonist. The one exception was Adventures of the Road-Runner, a failed 1962 TV pilot that was released theatrically and later edited into segments on Th…

Not only did I find this episode largely unpleasant and unfunny, but its premise made no sense. Why did Elfo need to lie about having a girlfriend? Just six episodes ago, he was sleeping with his village chieftain’s hot daughter. That’s the whole reason he had to flee to the outside world in the first place. So if he…

I thought the Peter Jackson King Kong was okay — its main problem was that every single scene was about 20% longer than it needed to be.

Okay, so they alluded to her motivation, but as this show often does, they presented it as if they expected their audience to be familiar with it already, rather than doing the work to set it up for new viewers. It’s an odd approach for a reboot aimed at a new generation of kids.

I’m not sure, but when Magica zapped the dime and released Scrooge, I think it was because she accidentally recreated the original spell that we saw in flashback, when she tried to trap Scrooge in the dime and she got trapped instead. At least that was the impression I got, that they maneuvered her into using her own…

I believe that “car” as we use it today was originally short for “motorcar” — because of course the word “car” was already in use for train cars, mine cars, elevator cars, etc., so something more specific was needed.

“yes, he DID spare quite a few expenses to try and find her.”

Batman ‘66 had a New Guernsey long before that game did. And its version of Gotham City (which was a parody of New York City with place names like Chimes Square and the Avenue of the Armenias) was in Gotham State.

Tim Russ plays a human lieutenant on the bridge of the Enterprise-B in Star Trek: Generations. It’s an Excelsior-class ship in 2293, so you could be confusing it with the actual Excelsior in the previous movie. As I said, a lot of people make that mistake because of the similarity.

“You know for some reason I thought Devor was a vulcan.”

One Vulcan, two humans, and a Klingon, rather.

“it doesn’t really account for the fact that there are two guys who look exactly like Bruce Willis in this cinematic universe”

Okay, yeah, because of the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook — but then, why not have Huey and the other nephew from the previous Gizmoduck episode? Why only one nephew? For that matter, if they knew they needed Huey in the second Gizmoduck episode, why not use him in the first? It’s not like they make this stuff up one…

“I have no idea why the bank teller begins rolling back and forth on the ground, other than it looks funny”

I thought it worked pretty well, in large part because it’s the first real Scrooge-focused episode we’ve gotten. I agree that the show needs far less Glomgold, though.