Some combination of Andy Daly, Paul F Tompkins, Jason Mantzoukas and Scott Aukerman would do.

Well, that certainly went on and on, didn’t it? I guess my twee tolerance ain’t what it used to be.

Yeah, it’s weird, but I’m just not feeling it anymore. Did I just get old?

It’s funny. I woke up this morning really looking forward to seeing this movie. I’ve been excited about it since it was announced. I loved the teasers and then the last trailer. I find myself detouring down the toy aisle when I’m at Target.

An HIV patient with tapeworm cancer. That is some really bad luck.

Don’t worry, folks. They’re just actors. I took a class at UCB with the “mom”, and the baby is an understudy in Hamilton.

I see where you’re coming from now. Good read.

I thought the theme was bad parents. There isn’t a single decent parent on this show, from The Countess, who is the supernatural mother of her vampire family and who throws her children away when they begin to bore her, to John and Alex Lowe, who have a living daughter they both seem to have forgotten about, to Liz…

I think you’ll lose the urge to watch this show somewhere in the middle of the third episode. I’m not entirely sure why I’m still watching.

So what’s the one between the B-Wing and the Ewok flyer? It’s on the ROTJ poster, but I can’t make out the name.

Fox, you say? Maybe they can cancel Gotham to make room on the schedule.

That’s a good idea for Bill Maxwell. Better than my idea of finding a way to deage Alec Baldwin by about 15 years.

I actually said that to myself in the theater! Hah!

So one movie that almost nobody wanted has been put on hold in favor of a movie that absolutely nobody wanted. Great?

Scaring yourself—and I truly believe this—is an important part of growing up. It has made me a better person.

I agree. I was cautiously optimistic going into this season (in large part because of the music and to a lesser degree because I love Los Angeles and its weird history), but the show started to lose me last week, and now I’m just watching to see if The Last Bookstore, the Museum of Jurassic Technology or Clifton’s…

I’ve never heard of that book, but I know that feeling. For me, nothing works as well as a good story told economically. The Big Sleep, High-Rise, In a Lonely Place, Hangover Square, none of those was a word longer than the story needed them to be, and they are all incredibly effective as a result.

Yeah, the book did a number on me, too. I read it about 20 years ago, and it has stuck with me the way Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God has.

I didn’t know that about the timing, and it does explain a lot. Bloomsbury should have had a more proactive team in place to ensure that their interests were protected and to take some of the pressure off their moneymaker. It really feels like they were taken off guard by the success of the franchise and lost the…

I’ve always felt that JKR’s storytelling would have benefited from a talented, aggressive editor. The last four novels had a first-and-a-half draft feel that made them a slog to get through. I can live with seven volumes, but there just wasn’t enough story for the page count.