Oh wow, didn't even notice that! Is this the first one he's done for AVClub? I know he wrote for The Dissolve.

I'm an atheist, but the idea of cheese on fish just sounds heretical to me at a deep, deep, level. Like, 80% of the world's major religions probably forbid it.

I mean, it's great that Trump is an idiot and keeps fucking up his own agenda. But he's laying tracks for someone much worse, much more competent, to come along and do the job right.

It's sad: I honestly, truly thought that was the end for him when that happened. You don't do that. You don't threaten your opponent. That was entirely, dangerous new ground to be on.
Instead it probably fired up his base all the more.

I can't believe that article only has 181 comments, for all its notoriety.

I have a huge backlog of interesting sounding WTF episodes that I never got around to. I like the show whenever I listen to it, and for a year or two there it was in regular heavy rotation, but then I stopped one day and just can't bring myself to get into that habit again.

Yeah, that's a good example of a tangent going so long it goes through tedious and becomes funny. Also the Porthole of Time tangent, although I would submit that was funny the whole way through.

Pssh. Get back to me when he does it 90s-Style and holds the mike upside down over his mouth with his fist resting on his nose.

Those are my bottom two MCU films as well. Still neither made me as angry as watching Man of Steel.

I hope they don't try submerging his head in water again like they did back then. These days he looks like he could catch pneumonia off that.

"Radiohead plans to commemorate the 20th anniversary of OK Computer by embarking on a worldwide tour that will alienate and depress Thom Yorke again, just like it did in 1997!"

Bigger question is why is Max Von Sydow in it for five seconds.

Well put!

I think it's been explained that originally they had him get killed off, but liked Oscar Isaac so much they kept him in, hence him just disappearing for a third of the movie.

Or when he sails off the balcony at Luke in the carbon freeze chamber.

Honestly I'd say before the superhero trend took off in earnest the summer blockbuster movies were pretty dire. Go look at the lineup for summer 2000 or 2001.

Exactly. It seems so counterintuitive, since it's one of the most fan-fictiony elements written about in the OT, but it was something I didn't know I had been missing until I saw it. It's the first Star Wars movie where I felt like I was a kid again watching it, like they had just made a movie of me playing with the…

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a "We've told the story we wanted to tell, no we didn't get cancelled" style cancellation after this season.

I kinda wish they'd push back. "You keep saying "lots of people"". Who?" Challenge every one of his lies, press him for facts.

"That reminds me, here's an electoral map I need to show you."