I think they have made a mistake in cleanly splitting up the childhood and adult halves of the story. The adult part of the story is mostly a frame where the adults remember what happened when they were children. It works because the two stories are being told in parallel.

American grocery store bread is pretty tasteless, so people only eat for things that absolutely require it, such as sandwiches. And most Americans have never actually tasted anything better. It’s not like fresh bakery bread where you look for excuses to eat and consume the whole loaf in a day, maybe two at most.

To get in on nitpicking, this looks like like an NES game, something wouldn’t be sold in North America until 1985. It is a late ‘80s video game aesthetic for an early ‘80s show. It’s like having a recap of a show set in 1992 and giving it a Resident Evil aesthetic.

Having interested parties weigh in on a subject is part of what an op-ed section in a newspaper is for.

Thank God we still have the AV Club for well-researched, responsible journalism.

Worse than that, this is the Re-specialized editions with Darth Vader’s “Noooo!” ruining the climax of Return of the Jedi, and goofy stuff like R2-D2 somehow hiding behind a CGI boulder in the Star Wars.

Worse than that, this is the Re-specialized editions with Darth Vader’s “Noooo!” ruining the climax of Return of the…

Did anyone actually buy this theory in the first place?

Great. I am glad we are in agreement.

Since you are lazy, let us google “disqus.com Sam Barsanti”

You have yet to establish such a pattern in the first place. Sam Barsanti gets at least as much criticism as Katie Rife. I’d also advise you to find a post where I criticized Katie Rife and was wrong. I use the same name on Disqus and my history is public. Go see what you can turn up. I stand by all my statements.

You are the one that feels female writers are delicate flowers that are too delicate to be called out when they make a mistake. Your patronizing attitude is far more sexist than anything I have said here.

Even if you are just going with TV, it wasn’t that wholesome. We’d entered the era of shows like Married with Children, The Simpsons, and, of course, Twin Peaks. Even the wholesome shows of the ‘80s could get surprisingly dark. You wouldn’t see a network sitcom do something today like the Diff’rent Strokes episode…

A lot of it just comes down to the fact that people always lament that the world is dangerous and more violent than ever. In the ‘80s, the ‘50s were the golden innocent past that the media longed for, but in the ‘50s, the media was lamenting rock and roll and juvenile delinquency. You can get in a time machine and…

The 24 hour news cycle was already a thing in 1991. People were glued to their TVs watching CNN give dubious live reports during the 1991 Gulf War complete with dramatic music to juice up to the footage of SCUDs and Patriots. You mentioned OJ, and that was constantly being talked about on TV, if not on CNN, then on…

Clicks?

That’s something I remember from the original lodge dream from season one. I’ve always loved the way Cooper was alert but somehow subdued. It did a great job of portraying the sense he is asleep and in a dream. And during the last episode of season two, the time he suddenly becomes very active is during a nightmare…

Not really with the same frequency, and not with the same tendency to vilify celebrities with false facts if it suits her story. There are plenty of other female writers here that I don’t go after for this.

Just as an additional point, I just remembered that I did mention the Gulf War in my original post, as an international event.

That’s a fair criticism. To give you another example, The Soviet Union. the largest nation on Earth, collapsed in 1991, leading to economic collapse, massive unemployment. enormous increases in crime, and 42% spike in male mortality in former-Soviet states by 1993. Most state resources in Russia were privatized into…

No, Katie Rife is just prone to making completely inaccurate and misleading statements in her articles.