Did anyone else think a big problem with the "white ape" trailer is that, removed from context, that scene basically looks like something audiences had already seen - in the worst star wars prequel?

Did anyone else think a big problem with the "white ape" trailer is that, removed from context, that scene basically looks like something audiences had already seen - in the worst star wars prequel?

And then the part where, after filming the real trains, you decide you want a physically impossible shot instead, and so redo the entire thing in CGI.

And then the part where, after filming the real trains, you decide you want a physically impossible shot instead, and so redo the entire thing in CGI.

What about the one where there are two hosts and one is trying to convince the couple to move and the other host is trying to convince them to renovate. I haven't seen many episodes but in every one I've seen the woman who is trying to convince them to renovate starts by destroying a wall and causing a major problem.…

What about the one where there are two hosts and one is trying to convince the couple to move and the other host is trying to convince them to renovate. I haven't seen many episodes but in every one I've seen the woman who is trying to convince them to renovate starts by destroying a wall and causing a major problem.…

This was one of the most perplexing things in the entire season for me, and this in a season where basically every decision was perplexing. "Used to have a boyfriend" does not count as a humanizing backstory, much less one that somehow explains or excuses a persons endless list of terrible personality traits.

This was one of the most perplexing things in the entire season for me, and this in a season where basically every decision was perplexing. "Used to have a boyfriend" does not count as a humanizing backstory, much less one that somehow explains or excuses a persons endless list of terrible personality traits.

That is the thing I love the most about Mac and me. So much of it is unintentionally genuinely terrifying, and usually in the moments where it thinks it is being the funniest or cutest.

That is the thing I love the most about Mac and me. So much of it is unintentionally genuinely terrifying, and usually in the moments where it thinks it is being the funniest or cutest.

Wait, hold on not wanting to look at pictures of dead nurses makes you creepy?

Wait, hold on not wanting to look at pictures of dead nurses makes you creepy?

And to be fair, by "old people" - we mainly mean George Lucas ruining everything.

And to be fair, by "old people" - we mainly mean George Lucas ruining everything.

The thing that really irks me about the clone army is that in any moral world it makes the Jedi and the republic obvious bad guys. The separatists or whatever are declaring their independence and have a robot army to defend their freedom. The Jedi, meanwhile have no moral issue with sending 100s of thousands of REAL…

The thing that really irks me about the clone army is that in any moral world it makes the Jedi and the republic obvious bad guys. The separatists or whatever are declaring their independence and have a robot army to defend their freedom. The Jedi, meanwhile have no moral issue with sending 100s of thousands of REAL…

Frank Miller is one of those guys who everyone assumes is writing with some sort of meta-tounge-in-cheek-self-aware-social commentary in mind. For example, everyone assumed his batman stuff was some sort of commentary on the dangers of vigilantism or that 300 was a commentary on or parody of fascist societies. But…

Yeah that could have had a lot of potential actually. Andy is super attached to Dunder Mifflin for no discernible reason. But with Jim starting a family and being in charge of the branch, he would have had a multitude of reasons to be super pissed at incompetent corporate level people trying their hardest to destroy…

I always actually pictured the Geico lizard as existing in more of a "mad men" type world actually. Especially the ads where he is hanging out with his Boss, who seems like a cross between the old guy in "Babe" and Roger Sterling.

Yeah I tend to think that "not enough mythology" is almost never a problem. What IS a big problem is when a franchise becomes obsessed with the idea that it needs to flesh out its mythology and when the franchise creators begin to believe that endlessly throwing 'mythology' at viewers/readers/whatever will…