Counterargument: all of the filmed Ripleys have been miscast. The overwhelming feeling in the books is one of tension, of barely restrained panic as Ripley gets in way over his head and has to move constantly to keep everything up in the air. None of the leads really capture that, or Ripley’s essential worminess; they…

I’m stoked that both Silhouette Mirage and Quest for Glory are in this year!

What an amazingly grounded interview, for a show that was so good at staying in touch with its own history and mythology. Very charmingly matter of fact!

To be fair, having an unrequited crush on Daisy that everyone thinks is faintly ridiculous is a Fitz family tradition.

Their game, their rules.

Agent Sent Back To The Minors

Could be worse; you could be a big Montgomery Clift fan!

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a universe in possession of some little matter must be in want of some French.

Kokomo, the Sailor’s Ditty.

Mississippi Grind?

When really we should all hate him for his starring role in the incandescently racist Book of Mormon!

Huh, you’re right, I totally blanked on that. That is confusing!

No, it ended five years ago. The AV Club is just running a fun exercise in Tlonism, writing a bunch of recaps about what the show might have done. We’re all in on it. Did you not have your Community alert set up?

It’s the same monolith, isn’t it? And I’m not sure that we know that Izel created them. I mean, she said they’d been stolen from her, but she was doing a lot of lying about what she was doing at that point, so.

I’m looking forward to Agents of SHIELD so much. That’s the perfect kind of quarantine viewing, just total comfort food. Last season was goofy as hell, and this season’s trip through time looks to be more of the same. Bring on Peggy Carter!

Grown up Hanson gives me some intense uncanny valley feelings, but thank you for linking to that video!

Maybe you’re just not very funny.

She was pretty good in that They Might Be Giants video about the singing ground beef.

That’s reasonable!

I’m sorry, you think C3-PO — C3-PO — is a top?