Just in general. Have more David Warner in things.

I'm convinced that there must have been a young male lead of some sort, but I swear that his face has been blurred out of my memory. That makes him less memorable than Sam Worthington or Jai Courtney, which, wow.

Adam Scott was in Torque? I fucking loved that movie but I haven't seen it since 2005 or something.

Between their 126 podcasts and the Polygon youtube channel we must surely be hitting Peak McElroy soon. There are only so many hours in the day.

What happened to Sklarbro Country that it doesn't exist in the same form?

Welcome to Night Vale is a little like BBC's Sherlock in having been utterly cannibalized by its fans.

I Was There Too is a particularly interesting case to me since I really like Matt Gourley as a host and found him entirely engaging on James Bonding. It may simply be that I'm not invested enough in the material, e.g. what it was really like shooting Friday the 13th Part 4 or what have you.

I keep trying to dip back into Harmontown and I just can't manage it, for many of the reasons you suggest. I like and respect Dan Harmon but I suspect he'd be sort of intolerable to know, and his podcast makes me feel like I'm stuck in his living room eyeing the door while he paces the floor, sucking back vodka tonics…

Well, the "Love in an Elevator" bit was an incredibly long walk for a very small drink of water, even by the standards of Elliot at his most caffeinated. Credit to Dan and Stu, I probably would have told him to shut the fuck up after the first three minutes.

No, of course he isn't anything like "normal". But he is certainly not your run-of-the-mill politician, and the heart of the above line of thinking is that "what's wrong with politics is that it involves politicians."

Wouldn't go that far. He's definitely evil, and the trailer certainly makes it sound as if he's going to attempt to repeal the 22nd amendment limiting presidents to two terms.

Good point. "Government wouldn't be so hard if they'd just elect normal people" is definitely the sort of thinking that has elected Trump and hastened the death of the American empire by at least thirty years.

The above trailer seems like starry-eyed fantasy on par with the most schmaltzy Sorkin-penned speech from Martin Sheen.

Yeah, him getting his old look back entirely struck me as a little regressive. It'd be nice if there was some change to reflect all he's been through since the pilot.

They likely won't, although Jack losing the beard and the mane made that probability grow a bit, in my opinion. He stopped looking like her dad and once more looks like a handsome young samurai, an older brother-type.

Hell, I wouldn't have minded if he'd lifted the rock next to him and, lo and behold, there's his sword along with a freshly pressed linen robe. But the whole thing was discouragingly rushed from a series that can usually be counted on to take its time—notwithstanding the limited number of episodes remaining.

Igor as a rumbling baritone is slightly weird, I agree.

That's the twist: it turns out that the ghost was a dog the whole time.

As an aside, probably my favourite single aspect of that movie was that the tech-baron Zuckerberg type wanted to allay fears that his company was colluding with the government…

I agree across the board, particularly your last example. He was right; nobody wanted to admit it. Personally flying a plane into a building is reprehensible and evil; it's not cowardly. Remotely blowing up a building with a missile from an ocean away is a far more cowardly act.