Dunno, I mused philosophically regarding the issue of sacrifice (and potential self-sacrifice) in support of a system that, while exploitative and corrupt, nonetheless provides security for those innocent and ignorant of its purpose. It's entry level equivalency musing—is it right to kill (up to) five to save…

This Man, This Monster at the End of this Book.

… were they Nazi bees?

Oh, fair enough—that makes total sense from a kid perspective. It reminds me of the weird action scene in Follow That Bird!, too, where—during a car chase as they're trying to rescue Big Bird from the carnies (!) and Gordon is trying to coax Big Bird into jumping from the bad guys' truck into Olivia's car (!!)—Big…

Your takeaway from Sesame Street is that Grover is a trusted authority figure?

I could handle the capriciousness of the gods during the Pastoral Symphony just fine, and Chernabog is the the undisputed MVP of that film… but when the T-rex shows up in Rite of Spring it was time to throw a blanket over my head without even stopping to point out the anatomical and temporal inaccuracies.

It leaves me kind of… blah.

Hell yeah Usagi Yojimbo collection. I only started reading Usagi in the recent Senso limited series—which, as an alternate future & genre mash-up story, is a really weird introduction to the character—but that hooked me good. Jumped from there into Dark Horse's excellent UY Saga collections.

Those collections are amazing. I'm working through Volume 4 now after having devoured the previous ones.

Is that before or after the robot shows up? I always get distracted by the robot.

Hang on, I'm still trying to wrap my head around how a movie about a palooka from Philadelphia defeating a giant boxing ubermensch created by bleeding edge 80s-era evil Soviet super-science in the heart of Moscow on Christmas is remotely pro-American.

I own and have mixed feelings about that book. On the one hand, there's some really interesting scholarship to be found throughout the annotations and backmatter, but on the other I'm not wild about Klinger holding the characters accountable for Stoker's mistakes and ignorance of either modern or…

Yeah, there's a fascinating area of overlap in terms of copyrighted adaptations vs. the public imagination or perception of these iconic, public domain characters & stories. At what point do these looming figures in pop culture become bigger than their copyright simply because they're what almost everyone thinks of as…

Come on, now—nobody appreciates the pedantry. But thank you for saying so, regardless.

Nobody tell them about A Night in the Lonesome October or "Only the End of the World Again," either.

"Anyone is allowed to make a movie about Dracula."

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Thanks for your take!

I keep hearing this recommended. Is it really that good?

There's also stuff like Dark Adventure Radio Theatre at the HP Lovecraft Historical Society website—adaptations of Lovecraft stories in the style of old-time radio. I've only listened to their version of "The Call of Cthulhu," so I can't speak to all of their quality, but that one was pretty good.