Because the only people who ever went back and listened to artists who influenced their favorite artists were Gen Xers…

Word. I am beyond fed up with the assumption that everybody on the Internet is about 23 and doesn't care about anything from before 1990.

My problem is the song sounds like every slow contemporary Christian worship song I have heard in the last ten years.. which is not what I want to associate with a half-naked Jennifer Love Hewitt.

That makes me feel old.

Top Secret is really good with lots of strange sight gags and Omar Sharif.

Uh, no. That's just something Catholics to say. Catholicism wasn't around until centuries after Christ's death.

I found it cringeworthy too. And I wanted to love it, based on my fondness for Clerks and my protestant background.

I heard that Adams wanted Marvin to be a golden man (basically just a guy in make-up) and he hated the clunky robot from the BBC version. I thought the character design was a great match for Marvin's voice.

You're really making me lose faith in your taste in movies, dude.

Indeed.

The original Trek had three women, TNG generally had at least three, and Voyager generally had at least three women in the cast… but otherwise I can see what you're saying.

I had similar experiences with the first season. It kind of blew my mind to see a version of Shaggy who was a fearless acrobat instead of having "panic and run" as his default setting and a version of Fred who wasn't completely useless.

They should just write new lyrics to Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade.

A million years ago when I read the book for the first time as a kid, I assumed that a nuclear war was responsible for stuff like the mutations and the geography radically changing to become the Four Lands.

Exactly, Skippy. Allanon straight up tells Shea that every race except the elves used to be regular humans. And there is a prologue that explains stuff about the Druids (originally scientists), Bremen, and the Wars of the Races.

It's also closer to hard science fiction.

People have been telling me for decades that I was pronouncing Allanon incorrectly. I stubbornly insisted on pronouncing it as Ah-lan-un because that sounds better to me. Thanks show for taking away my ability to live in denial.

I'm too lazy to read all the comments. In Sword of Shannara, it is clearly established that something really bad happened in the distant past and all of the races in the Four Lands (except the elves, according to Allanon) were originally human. The dwarves, for example, evolved from regular humans who lived in huge…

Terry Brooks elves aren't very elfish. They live a little longer than humans and have better eyesight and that's about it.

She had nice breasts back in the first season.