Yeah, I did assume "The Ark in Space" would have been more effective when it aired since the staples of that sort of body horror hadn't been made yet (Alien, Cronenberg's remake of The Fly, Carpenter's remake of The Thing). I haven't seen "The Deadly Assassin" yet but I always enjoy a good simulated reality story.…

I said last year…

I have seen "The Ark in Space", "The Caves of Androzani", and "The Brain of Morbius". I enjoyed them, but what makes Adams' and Moffat's stories my favorites is that they're well structured mysteries that pile on outstanding SF idea after outstanding SF idea (while still making time for great character-driven humor).…

I started watching Doctor Who last year, not knowing it was the 50th anniversary but because I found myself with Amazon Prime and remembered I'd wanted to look into Doctor Who for a long time. I started with the serial "The Pirate Planet" and felt Doctor Who could be my ideal show. Then I watched some serials Douglas…

Who's Schwarzenegger? He was the US President. Keep up.

I could swear I recently saw the "Old Navy buddy" joke in another show. The show itself may not have been recent but I definitely saw it within the past few months.

Hey, Marceline finally got to drink the red from PB's pretty pink face like she sang about way back in "What Was Missing".

@avclub-1301962d8b7bd03fffaa27119aa7fc2b:disqus If you're right, the episode still has exactly the same content as if you're wrong. Spoooky.

@Kateh Kevin Clash said the same thing in his NPR interview, that kids visiting Sesame Street completely ignore the puppeteers and talk to the puppets like they were real. Who knows if the kids even remember the puppeteers existing afterwards.

I felt while and after watching like there may be some further meaning suggested in the episode, but had a hard time pinning anything down.

@avclub-d488781b360b5821800a78a33ea6bcf8:disqus I think the real cause for concern here is that those 23/24-year-olds are still stuck in middle school.

Come to think of it, do the same people who watch movies on their phones watch over-50-year-old movies? I'm curious what the overlap is.

As soon as I left the theater, the first thought that came to my mind was: Half a year from now, people will be watching Gravity on their phones.

Nah

That future-peering crystal ball looks like it could be really, really useful in the future.

I've never played an MMO myself, but the episode did bring back some memories.

What started the trend of retelling familiar stories from the villain's angle? It's shown up for a long time in things like The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and Grendel and The Gospel of Judas but it looks like it's now becoming especially popular. Did Wicked kick it off?

Did anyone else feel like this episode referenced Nausicaa again with the Gumball Guardians? It's been a long time since I've seen it so I can't say if there's any real similarity this time but it's the feeling I got.

The sequence was very funny but it felt out of character to see Jake killing two other animals that weren't explicitly evil, especially when the intention was to eat the soul of one of them. Jake is a dog who's spent a lot of time saving bugs and stuff.

No, you're confusing Miyazaki with that scientist from Gamera.