Well, there didn't seem to be much question of guilt (that I know of, for all I know it was a massive conspiracy or something), and I don't think they cared much for things like diminished capacity or whatever back then.

Yeah, I truly felt like being deliberately obscure and having the joke be on me the reader was deliberate - a shaggy-dog story that was about storytelling as much as it was about the story. I felt like the butt of a joke, and while that was fine, it also wasn't particualrly enjoyable.

But that's part of the joke: there is no "real" version, no canon story, no authoritive form and nerd-obsession with "the real one" (which seems to be the basis of so much of the hostility towards the movie) should be yet another joke. It's kind of a shaggy-dog, campire story, in that it's about the telling of it as…

Huh. I always figured Gently to look just like a slightly paunchy, threadbare Tom Baker.

In the opening scene of Female Vampire, a totally-naked Romay slowly walks toward the camera, closer, and closer… and then she hits it! Reshoot? Edit? Nonsense. Franco is probably right about his self-assessent, but he got that shit in the can. Hats off to you, movie-man!

I said "believe". Sheesh.

Drones. Lots and lots of drones.

The implication is she isn't over the (really old) guy, deliberately shuts her husband out of a big emotional aspect of her current life (which does doesn't come close to resolving), and wrote and directed a movie about herself and her life without him in it. Now, that may be only perception, and it may be completely…

As an atheist, I believe in a year zero. 0 CE, baby!

Nah, it'd be more the Jean Teasdale effect. "Good for you honey; you clearly have a lot of challenges and it's nice that you keep busy and out of jail."

Eh, there are many things in the world that are difficult and also pointless. Unicyles, ukeleles, computing pi to large digits, pugs, slash-fanfiction, whatever. Grading on difficulty just enables nonsense.

Mr T at the mall.

There's no Waldo in here?!! There's no Waldo in any of these fucking books!

"Appropos of nothing, but did I ever tell you about my favorite Sammy Hagar song?"

Also, the way network TV is noiw, "great" ratings mean only a very small fraction of the American public. This isn't the 70s when there were zero other options on weekdays and three channels.

Maybe your B+ review of this show can be your AV club writer submission?

Bring back old classic letters like thorn or eth!

I have nothing against Kevin Bacon, and he's been in a lot of movies and all and I've enjoyed some of them, but when did he become Laurence Olivier? How did he become this huge selling point?

Is that a thing? I mean, it's not like I pay any attention to community reviews anyway, but that just seems like 2nd grade proto-contrarian bullshit.

No, the entire thing is creepy. Dude more than twice her age. Puppets. Not-there husband casting shadow over everything. Weird personal trek that accomplishes nothing. More puppets. Furry-eyebrowed puppets.