Dominique's dad was drinking fucking Pabst Blue Ribbon. Carl had the RC.

Yeah, winter in Chicago, where they've made multiple points about how cold it is, getting dumped in the river is pretty quick hypothermia and death. Kind of strange for Caleb to go from never meeting the family at all to participating in what he knows is likely homicide. I'm not sure Ian is the most unstable one in…

You did it last week too and I didn't respond, but here it is:

It seems to me there are two basic kinds of reboots: Take something kind of shitty with a cool core idea and making something good out of it (BSG or Batman), or reviving something already beloved for a new audience (too many to count). Is the new PPG taking the former approach and applying to the latter situation?

By which, you mean, Mojo Jojo should be prayed for.

Oh, a teacher showed us the movie "Threads" somewhere there in the mid-80s. Fucking terrifying then, way better than "The Day After." I've never revisited it, no idea if it hold up. But fucking terrified me then.

My chronology is a bit hazy, but I don't think I got a modem for my C64 and started on BBS's until a bit later than '83. I don't remember my password, but my username back then was Elleinad, which would put it at least at '84. I remember the girl I got to second base with better than the computer I had, even then.…

I think my favorite element of "Doctor Strangelove" is the scenes on the bomber. No panic, just good 'ole American can-do spirit. With the martial music, it's sort of its own movie within the movie.

Damn, she's cute when she traps him for a second on his way down to take care of the trash.

It was a weird time. @wolfgangvonschrei:disqus's "back of mind, front of mind" description is very apt. Lots of people didn't notice it, lots of other people did. I was fairly terrified through this period, my wife (same age) was not.

I do wish they had taken the time to explore with Raj the absurdity of being terminally ill at the end of the world. He went from facing his own imminent end all alone to being just a guy who got a head start on the project. They could have waited a few episodes before revealing that Rhonda was his wife and let his…

I absolutely read it as murder disguised as suicide. Nothing we saw of his character throughout pointed to suicide, and they strongly hinted that Father Christophe was the type to do anything to protect the hierarchy.

So, were the second coming of Christ and the Anti-Christ twins? Interesting take.

Every time I ask the guy at the Blu-Ray store if they are CAV or CLV I just get a blank stare in response.

I love the Cities. Minneapolis is more cosmopolitan, St Paul a bit sleepier. Both great, you get your pick! Uncle Hugo's is a fantastic sci-fi book store. Ax-Man and Riverview Theater are treasures.

Christianity is stupid, Communism is good. Eleven.

The video store I worked at way back when had a weird little laser disc selection that included "Visions of Light." Utterly changed the way I watch movies. I still remember the illustration of the harm that pan-and-scan can do using "Rosemary's Baby" (this was back when those objecting to the evils of pan-and-scan…

It was a little more gradual than that (Debbie stuck around through S6). It was more that characters cycled in then out after 3-5 seasons. Kash's family went from minor at the start to major in the middle seasons, then out, that sort of thing.

Is Ian really still only 17? That can't be right, the show's covered nine months since the end of last season alone. Ian's stint in the hospital definitely happened before he was 18; it's reasonable for Caleb to assume that stuff that happened as a minor would be sealed.

It's the gently expanding circle of ethnocentrism. They couldn't think of something appropriately American, so they went British (Isles).