I don't know whether to be relieved or disappointed that it looks like Ubik's fizzled out yet again.

Um… Let's go with that

Is it that most people prefer new things because they're new, or is it that people prefer just watching what's presented to them and things that fit into familiar aesthetics? From my experience the young-ish people who seek out older films and television are more likely to be "nerds", but so are, for example, people…

I'm torn between criticizing the animation or praising it as "accurate enough". They got a lot right but it looks much more like something done digitally by mid-level American artists today and post-processed to look old than it looks like something outsourced to Korea or Japan and animated on cels in the '80s, but…

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I was disappointed the video didn't get more into where and when specific tropes came into prominence and fell away. '60s voiceovers are distinctly different from '80s voiceovers, the current trend is for no narration at all unless it's sampled from the movie itself, then there's the repeatedly-fade-to-black thing.

It's called gate weave. It happens as a result of stretching when a film reel is played over and over. Very minor issue with digital projection, and digital stabilization can also help.

Josh Wheaton is what half the people I know call Joss Whedon.

Fortunately the Angels eventually did take Manhattan.

And as it's portrayed in this sort of fiction, flirtation usually consists mostly of expressions of animosity.

His Girl Friday has the man pursuing the woman who rebukes him until the end, I Was a Male War Bride has the man simultaneously pursuing and rebuking the woman who rebukes him until the movie takes a completely different turn in the middle, Pillow Talk has the man and woman rebuking each other while the man…

I'm all for retiring the trope from sitcoms, but my mind quickly goes to how much I enjoy watching '30s/'40s screwball comedies. Many of them are very, very funny, and get most of their comedic mileage from not-entirely-scrupulous male leads pursuing supposedly-uninterested female leads. You want to see these people…

But it also packs in as many minutes as a regular 11 minute episode.

I assumed Lemonhope died at the end but am also unsure if it was meant to be definitive. It evokes the ends of "Jurassic Bark" and A.I. but…

It's like Joss Whedon actually writes for Flanders

I haven't seen this yet and glossed over the herpetologist part in the article, so I spent a while trying to ascertain what "he notes that one of his snakes has escaped its cage" was a euphemism for.

Makeup, definitely yes. UFO, for example: http://i.imgur.com/23cOiH8.jpg

I loved that the version of what "the future" looks like everyone went with was the future as seen specifically from the '70s. Am I imagining there was some World on a Wire in there too, maybe some Gerry Anderson? I guess the '70s SF aesthetic sort of blends together.

But this counts as media coverage. These bands are too mainstream now.

They talked about stuff like Curb Your Enthusiasm and Neon Genesis Evangelion in the Invader Zim commentaries… I'd guess that maybe since the DVDs were put out by Media Blasters instead of Nickelodeon they'd have that kind of leeway, but the Zim commentaries have a lot of missing stuff too.