I actually think it looks pretty interesting.

I feel reasonably confident in saying there will be no season 2.

I’m not saying I doubt you at all, but would you be able to cite an example of the Story Group hinting at dissatisfaction with what Abrams did on Episode VII? Because I try to follow their comments pretty closely, and I’ve never picked up on that.

I dunno. The premise is fine, if not exactly novel, but I guess I’m unconvinced by the execution? Any point it was trying to make - to the extent this show is ever trying to make a real point - felt pretty muddled to me. Or maybe “distracted” would be a better way to describe it. Still liked most of it, but I…

I saw Jay Thomas appear with Bill Maher* at a Politically Incorrect college tour event way back in late 2001. Maher was, as always, a smug, condescending asshole. Hardly a surprise. But I was disappointed that Jay Thomas, as the other celebrity in the panel, was right there with Maher in mocking the audience and…

The article doesn't mention it, but he did say rather definitively in the interview that the next one would be his last and that he wanted to finish with a really strong installment. He didn't really leave any room for equivocation, but I suppose there's no way to be sure he won't be lured back again.

How is there no mention of Million Ants?

I… don't really get whole "inmates of Hell have to be horrible always" angle, I guess. It feels, I dunno, overly simpleminded, maybe?

Between it opening nearly a full month before the broadcast premiere and just the novelty of seeing a teevee show in IMAX, I was willing to get on board. Now? Probably not.

Wait, the ABC cut is actually longer? Has this been common knowledge for a while? If so, I completely missed that. Part of the reason I was planning to go out of my way to see the IMAX release despite my considerable reservations was because I thought it was going to include everything from the premiere a month later.…

I've never found it humorous at all that he's such a phenomenally terrible character. It's just depressing.

Yeah, I would be all over that. A backdoor wrap-up for Agent Carter, another chance to see Bobbi and Hunter, tie up some of the loose ends and inconsistencies from the films and shows, and so on. Kind of like what Lucasfilm is doing right now with the Star Wars: Forces of Destiny animated shorts, but with a bit more…

Could do a whole collection of them and release them like studios do with animated shorts. Or just put them on Netflix. I'm sure they wouldn't mind streaming a series of shorts running between five and twenty minutes, especially if it meant that a few of the film characters could pop up for a bit. It would even be an…

Met him in Berkeley while he was promoting SLC Punk. He gave me a bunch of signed stuff and even extras for a friend. He was quite friendly and super tall. Presumably is still both of those things.

Well, that was actually how I interpreted it, too. I was just trying to be a bit more neutral in my description.

I suspect that, once it's over, we'll learn a lot more about how much was scripted and how much was genuinely improvised.

I actually wasn't suggesting there would be further teases. I was more trying to say that it was a way to show that those characters aren't really "gone" even though this is almost certainly the last time they'll appear on the show.

Is it confirmed that it was just an old teevee show that somehow perfectly mirrors Finn and Jake's lives? I'm not convinced, but if the powers that be say that's what it is, I'll accept that. It seems to me to fit more with an alternate universe that's leaking into theirs, like, "this is the last we'll see of Fionna…

Cool. I was worried I had misinterpreted it somehow, as neither the review nor the comments brought that up. I actually thought that was a pretty telling moment regarding the depth of their relationship, however one chooses to categorize it.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, as the review doesn't discuss this at all: So, Marceline's story shows that she didn't turn into Marshmallowine immediately and tried to save Bubblegum. But she failed and then gave up, allowing herself to transform like everyone else. Right?