If ever you needed evidence of the dire effects of cocaine on Hollywood brains in the 80's this would be it. Who greenlights shit like this?

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And I wish I knew why Disqus randomly logs me out, yet still knows my id but not my avatar.

You're right about Chase, but I can't help the feeling that the actual *script* for Animal House looked that awesome compared to other things. It's the performances and wild sense of anarchy that the director managed to capture and and edit up onto the screen that makes it fly.

I watched this trailer with the sound off. I think it ehanced the experience.

Hey there, Theta. Another science-loving Christian here. Keep fighting the power.

Good Lord. 714 comments on this one. And I know I"m not going to read ANY of them, for fear of losing my lunch.

From the way the books read, I personally believe that the triangle thing was shoved in there by editors.

Well, my teenage son and I, both manly men who like to shoot guns, enjoyed the hell out of the books. The first one is best, though.

You could say that, but the two series ran concurrently, back in the day. Cue the "who did it first" controversy so beloved by Babylon 5 superfans.

@avclub-cc225865b743ecc91c4743259813f604:disqus, you are hereby forgiven. Go, and sin no more.

Well shit, how much older was he in '78? You see if you can do something as good as you did it when you were fifty years younger.

@avclub-23dc117ef9479407fb6c6a666005af40:disqus, I grant you it's a stretch, but just because a culture is old doesn't mean it lacks pockets (or whole shirts) of  backwardness. China has been around a long time, but some folks there still think rhino horn is useful as a fever reducer (or so I see on the interwebs.…

Oh my.

Oh they, made a LOT of hay with that, no doubt, but I guess I felt like sometimes it was just weird. You know, replacing the Kai made for many an interesting episode, but she wasn't really dead, just sort of "retired" on the other side of the wormhole.

[Fanwank] Because Bajor had been ground down under the Occupation, a lot of places were not very socially or technically advanced themselves, even though they knew things like starships, etc. existed. [/fanwank]

"Battle Lines" is one of those "film it and forget it" episodes that show up early in many a series. It raises potentially interesting questions, sets up a potentially interesting dynamic, and promptly vanishes down the memory hole, never to be heard of again with one exception. Kai Opaka can't be Kai anymore and…

You'd think immortality nanobites might have a commercial value.

It's not like most of us have anything better to do.

It also had a pretty cool message about learning from mistakes. And how mistakes are necessary to learn and advance.