It's funny that you say your expectations were exceeded. I should probably say before a lot more people start weighing in on the review being excessively harsh that I am just really disappointed because the concept for this was very solid, and could have led to an amazing episode of the show. But instead we got this,…

Yeah, I forgot to put it in Stray Observations. Really well executed appearance, though. I am literally never unhappy to see Death, which is pretty rare among recurring characters on this show.

Jonas Venture, Jr. is so, so much better than this.

Yup, my bad. I'll go back and fix it. Thanks.

Not the physical appearance, just the concept (though also a little bit of the spaceship).

Eh. I think that's a really charitable reading. Like, I really like(d) Tyler and was super excited for Wolf, but the good parts of Wolf are way too little, too late. Maybe I was a bit hard on it, but I also think it's hard to deny he's not still doing the same shtick ("Domo 23," "Pigs" to name a couple).

Nope. At a certain point, it's easy to lump everyone who was into sampling jazz in the early '90s into Native Tongues, but they weren't associated with and didn't really hang with any of the other groups/affiliates.

I dunno. I basically came into being a hip-hop head in the nerdiest way possible (by kind of randomly getting really into a few different artists and then reading a bunch of books and immersing myself for a few months), so I kind of feel a lot of the awkwardness of being an interloper as a fan, knowing that a lot of…

Eh, not really. There are already quite a few by '89: http://www.whosampled.com/s… You can kinda see how everyone was doing it at the time. It's arguably worse with "Funky Worm," which is just all over the place already: http://www.whosampled.com/s…

Sometimes I can't even listen to "Show Business" without hearing it as Tribe and Brand Nubian complaining they weren't allowed to be terrible on an otherwise classic album. There were some other things that *could* have gone in Demerits, but that track was more than enough.

They're not *bad*, but I agree with @avclub-be0f8833e0c38be119979a949a2da1cf:disqus  - find it really hard to bring myself to listen to those albums when I could just listen to the other three.

I'd buy the tremors as an explanation if they weren't introduced for like 5 seconds solely as something he could reference as a reason to get off the meds. The whole thing is just so obviously a way to get from Point A to Point B.

You should watch the Mariachi Trilogy if you think Rodriguez is incompetent. He is not.

"as if they're being forced under duress to watch it."

It wasn't, though one of the Bob Benson fan theories is that he's closeted (this is an example of that: http://www.huffingtonpost.c….

This definitely isn't sponsored. For whatever reason, I fell *hard* for this song. Have listened to it ~25 times since yesterday afternoon.

@avclub-fb3deea8bff8902a6a092a4b532b4a68:disqus That's it. I think it makes more sense to think of FWWM as a Lynch film set firmly in the Twin Peaks universe, rather than just a continuation of the Twin Peaks series that happens to be 2 hours long (in which case yeah it'd be pretty unsatisfying).

Good omission, though: The summary doesn't mention Sgt. Hatred's little problem, which I think is probably for the best. It was getting a bit too much, so hopefully they'll at least take it down a notch.

Fair enough. I hang my head in shame.

That's compelling enough that I'll consider revisiting Xavier. I remember trying it a couple of times and absolutely hating it, but that was a few years ago.