The hint is that they didn’t just cast Robert Preston but Robert Preston as Harold Hill. He’s not running a legit recruitment effort, he’s running a con to collect rubes that are just good enough for him to get his bounty payment. He accidentally found someone competent in Alex.

You make calls with that thing? What are you? Some kind of troglodyte?

Nina Paley’s movies are pretty good though she leans a bit too heavily on the songs to carry the narrative.

Zombie shark...doo doo, doo doo

I can’t remember, is there anything which says Shmi didn’t have any other kids... possibly before Anakin and becoming a slave? ...or does that go against Star Wars dogma...

What about Larry Skywalker’s brother Darryl Skywalker, or his other brother Darryl Skywalker?

Oh, God yes....I remember how some people hated Marti Noxon with a rage that was spectacular to behold. The level of hate some people had towards her was just weird.

Maybe this is more appropriate regarding phrasing between Irish republicans and the royals...

Yeah the impact of Yesterday’s Enterprise is also kind of gone if you don’t have a peaceful, normal continuity to use as a comparison. If they were willing to do a whole movie about “let’s restore the timeline to the proper, peaceful timeline” that’d be one thing, but it sounded more like they just wanted a movie set…

The real problem for anyone willing to take on the debt is that they also becomes responsible for changing Harry Knowles’ diapers.

I’m not really questioning the high/low part as much as the lack of slope. But holy cow you hit it on the head with the LEGO comparison. There was something so very familiar about these and it’s exactly that!

Ironically, the ones who use constitution to explain their behaviour the most tend to actually understand it the least (“Banning me from Twitter is a violation of my first amendment rights!” “it’s a violation of my religious rights to allow gay people to marry in completely secular, non-church related ceremonies, even…

Oh man as soon as the 1/6 riot happened I went straight to NewsHour and watched every day until the inauguration. PBS is maybe the only national-news broadcast I’ll watch (local news can be okay if they’re not owned by Sinclair or similar).

I didn’t read Dark Knight Returns until about 10 years ago and it basically just read like a fascist’s fan fiction so yeah, it did not work for me.

Random io9 comment inspires me to re-read The Once and Future King. Thank you, and enjoy your star!

Also, the whole “Thanos came and got the stones and then snapped out half of all life” angle doesn’t take into consideration that he was out there searching for the stones before the Avengers were even a thing and would have found them eventually (as he says, he is inevitable). Imagine if he had found the stones out…