Yaphet Kotto should have been elected president after his turn in Live and Let Die.

I have a soft spot for Jimmy Kelly as 'The Black Samurai' as well. He's sort of a secret agent who's fighting an effete drug-pushing cult leader who uses black magic. Not quite up to Black Belt Jones standards but still a rollicking good time.

IIRC, the original introduction had Zordon bidding Alpha the Nervous Robot to seek out "five teenagers with attitude".

For a messy show, it was entirely too neat. Cute, almost.

Well, sure, except their stated agenda is the same as 80%-90% of sci-fi and fantasy villains. Humanity is too chaotic and violent, everyone would be happier if controlled, etc., etc. They don't believe that they're evil, fair enough, and neither does the Empire from Star Wars, but you're not going to find a lot of…

I put Dragonball Z up there with Transformers and Thundercats in the pantheon of kids' cartoons that had opening sequences that were way better and more exciting than the program itself.

True, but if memory serves Balk wasn't just trying to become a more independent person, she was becoming increasingly evil and deranged.

I've seen my fair share of skinny nerds pushed into lockers by thick-necked assholes. But they (the assholes) weren't any more popular for it.

Yeah, tenant/tenet gives a lot of writers problems. Kind of like "giving free reign/rein".

I suspect the real answer is that casting directors et al. still want teens to watch the movie, and a time-honored way of getting people to stare at a screen for two hours is to populate it with attractive people.

I sort of enjoy those ads. I like to hear what kind of twisted hellscape they think the post office is, and how I apparently spend about 98% of my life there.

There was a surreal 18-month period when Leelee Sobieski was in literally every film that was released. Then she vanished without a trace. I think she might have been a trick of the light reflecting from Venus.

Well, it's only natural. He got run out of town like a common pygmy.

Well put. In many ways Maher embodies the very ugliest aspects of progressivism.

The first Matrix was a stone classic. Its sequel isn't that, but it introduces some intriguing new dimensions and some well-constructed (if increasingly stagey) action sequences, even while it makes bad missteps like the Burly Brawl. It's not great but it's far from terrible.

Travis in particular is out of control. I think he starts a new podcast about once a week now.

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Didn't she actually describe the two-gun thing as "kind of lame"?

True enough, though Samaritan/Decima is only a few maniacal cackles short of Hydra on the Evil-o-meter much of the time.

I'm so upset that we haven't seen a Rival Schools remake for the modern age, especially with the 'custom character/visual novel' mode. Game was awesome.