True, though there's some pretty iconic Sisko scenery chewing, too. The final monologue in "Far Beyond the Stars," or his decision to end the Maquis colonies as his final move to break Eddington. I just figured I'd google "youtube benjamin sisko scenery chewing" and post whatever was the first thing that came up.

I figured you were going to hit us all with a Sisko, honestly.
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My teaching assistant "career" has mostly become a one-person crusade to get the women in my classes (and this is journalism school, so it's like 90% women) to not pre-emptively apologize for their work. I try not to be too pushy/mansplain-y about it, but I just can't get away from two, I dunno, I guess you'd call…

All I can say is my friend and I both burst out laughing when we saw that in the trailer, and neither of us has a particularly morbid sense of humor.

I hold with Isaac Asimov's notion of "cheerful self-appreciation" — there's no point in self-consciously denying something about oneself just to be bashful.

It's like you're still reading WOT in 1997!

I came this close to putting in a "Hey, we remembered The Expanse!" section, but that seemed too insider-y, even for me.

You're right. Mine are the best!

It's not really false for me to say Barry Lyndon is one of the two most beautiful movies I've ever seen, especially since I've not seen Tree of Life…

Yes, I knew I wasn't going crazy with that! Didn't realize WOT would turn into a Walk Among the Tombstones fan convention, but it kinda did back there.

I don't know why my flagrant misuse of the "In Case You Missed It" section is something people keep commenting on. I even explained it that one time! It's like you guys aren't paying close attention to WOT mythology, or something.

Hey, any port in a storm, my alien man.

Oh, there's nothing wrong with it — I'm just pretty sure that's not even the main episode of Oak Island that airs tonight, so I figured it was some kind of bit.

Barry Lyndon might be Kubrick's funniest movie. I mean, it's not, because I'm not going to do the contrarian thing and claim Dr. Strangelove isn't funny (George C. Scott alone is hilarious), but Barry Lyndon is pretty hilarious, and maybe the best possible use of the non-presence of Ryan O'Neal, give or take Tough…

I dunno, maybe? I'll admit I'm just kind of over this whole strain of ludicrously dark/macabre cop stories, and the trailer for this just looked like it was trying to be the lovechild of Se7en and True Detective, or something.

That may be true for the actual movie! But for the trailer, as its own independent unit of storytelling, it just comes across as kinda dementedly self-serious.

I guess the underlying movie could be good, but I stand by the trailer being amusingly over the top.

You don't think a character inexplicably jumping off a roof in the middle of a conversation is a pretty overcooked bit of pulpiness? Eh, different strokes, I guess.

We're going in the wrong direction here, temporally speaking. Hmm, can anyone contextualize this in terms of Truman defeating Dewey?

Yeah, but this version will have Clarence Darrow in it!