I admired that the fact that Snyder clearly wanted to be faithful to the source material with "Watchmen" and actually managed to get a coherent narrative on screen, but I agree that he just didn't get what the story was really about. And I like the comic, but Alan Moore isn't really that subtle.

I just wish the New Yorker would stop reaching down my pants to take my pulse.

That's bizarre! How does that even happen?

I agree, that is a cool take. You could have a fantastic show if they really dug down into that clash of genres idea as a reflection of Walt's place in the world. There's something really interesting there. If they were deliberately testing the conventions of the genres, playing them off against one another. I think…

I thought the same thing about the deliberate subversion of expectations by having Longmire fall short again and again. He succeeds because he's bullheaded and lucky, but not because he's three moves ahead. I liked that, but in a lot of other respects the episode felt unfocused.

Yeah, as eye-roll-worthy as the conception of that character was, Jeri Ryan did some good work. Lord knows, she wasn't done many favors by the costuming or much of the writing, but her performances were often pretty strong.

I like it. Yeah, it's not perfect, but the cast is good and it's an interesting world. I know the whole "old school lawman in a changing world" trope has been done a lot, but I feel like this version holds a lot of promise.

No Color Purple? The narrative connection to Purple Rain was tenuous at best.

You're being too literal. The sharks weren't really sharks. They were metaphors for America's rising sense of dread and unease in the face of… Oh, fuck it. It doesn't make a lick of sense.

I'm sorry, but that's not true. I was a consultant on the team at Universal Creative that worked on the ride for several years. One of the goals with the story was to involve new kinds of movements—barrel rolls, 360 degree loops, etc. I worked alongside several people who did just motion simulator programming. It was…

No, they definitely completely reprogrammed the ride vehicle. The two films have the vehicles doing completely types of movements. If you didn't reprogram the motion simulator's movements from scratch to sync up with what you were seeing, it just wouldn't work at all. Not only would any illusion that you were part of…