*Littlefinger, meanwhile, continues listening to Lakeside- he's odd like that*

And he really wasn't expecting how much rejoicing would occur.

Up in here! Up in here!

Not by work rules- they tried to low-ball him on his standard fee.

And how that lasted for a surprisingly long time?

We wish he wasn't real…..

Mind you, we've long known that movie producers an be assholes, so why wouldn't it work the other way?

*Waves the "two things" card*

Does he own a proper producer hat?

Are you happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats?

It makes the bad acting even more apparent!

To prove that you can?

One of whom was significantly older than the other- and now it's really obvious?

*Michael Caine's shirt isn't even wet*

How reasonable is the Arkoff estate?

Quite- I get the feeling they've grown bored with doing that, and especially bored with the contemporary blockbusters that were the chief subjects of those releases.

To a heavy degree, the issue is "what riffs?"- they weren't writing the program much at all at that point, and it shows, the same way a lot of the first national season is kind of weak in those regards.

Blame the rights-holder.

Especially when it isn't always clear what level of quality the masters they do have are at- note that some material in the past seems to have been sourced from VHS-quality recordings.

Quite- it doesn't scare me at all, but that's because I perceive it as being basically like the sauce they use with coneys in Detroit, and, having such a frame of reference, I'm not weirded out like so many others seem to be.