For my part, I was never certain whether Fez was supposed to be from the same country as Latka Gravas or if his accent was just a winking reference. Back then they didn’t feel the need to explain everything on TV shows.

The plot is boilerplate, sure, but it is fucking stunning to look at. If you’re determined to sit there frowning with your arms crossed until somebody delivers a 21st century Chinatown instead of a generic Hero’s Journey that doesn’t get in the way of sheer whiz-bang spectacle, I’m not going to stop you. I’m just…

“State of Love and Trust” is one of my favorite Pearl Jam songs to this day. That soundtrack is all killer, no filler.

My copy’s on VHS, and though I haven’t watched it in awhile, it used to make a great double feature with Live at Pompeii, which I also have on VHS.

All I know is, my gut says “maybe.”

Repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the very definition of practice!

Logic suggests that a fan-service final-season victory lap will feature a lot of things from the time when you still enjoyed the show. So there’s that.

Agreed — even as another fan of Mr. Ramamurthy, Bloodwork seems like a pretty low-wattage villain for a grand sendoff. My strongest memory of his arc was the family dinner with the LASAGNA OF EVIL.

I think she’ll probably be back for (er, is in?) the next one. One of the more unexpected things about Avatar 2 is that the scale of the story is narrowed considerably from Avatar 1 — it’s more of a reboot than a sequel in that sense — and the conflict is resolved with remarkably little loss of life. It leaves a lot…

One can hope.

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Cookie Monster, ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER, Rappin’ Jake Sisko, Aurora Boreanaz... there were giants in those days. And no Kinja.

Coming as it does from an era in which the “lore” of a fantasy film generally wasn’t considered that important, I can look past the general chaotic mélange of names and costumes from a bunch of different pre-modern cultures that make up Willow’s world most of the time. But things are different today, and when you name…

You’d prefer we were cast as the livestock, I suppose...

It’s second only to “people who don’t want to watch movies & TV, they want to solve them by endlessly speculating online, and then complain when the writers didn’t write what they expected” in my Big Book of Things I’m Very Tired Of.

You’re forgetting how much energy some people have invested in believing they know more about making movies than James Cameron. If this succeeds they will have to ask themselves some hard qu—I’m just kidding, they’ll simply move the goalposts again and life will go on.

It’s not really a show that’s about plot, necessarily. The magical realism and general heightened reality aspects make it, at least for me, a show that’s more about vibes than anything else. And there are only 12 episodes, most of which are wonderfully weird and occasionally hilarious, so I’d say go for it.

According to the rumors, though, he was out of that before Thanksgiving. Maybe he forgot? He seems to have a lot on his mind lately.

Ouch, and there you’ve set the bar at Smokin’ Aces, which itself is a half-assed rip-off of Snatch that’s trying to coast 0n a blizzard of “hey, I know that actor” cameos. And Bullet Train fell short of that?

My favorite part of the joke job, incidentally, and speaking of obsolescence, is that Del describes the shower curtain rings as being made of “Czechoslovakian ivory.”