I am probably being overly harsh on it. It was an acceptable cable watch.

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Seriously. My affection for the original aside, there is nothing I should care about less than a Predator movie, but I am a little excited about this.

I do watch individual episodes of Breaking Bad. There are a lot of gripping, single episodes in that series. That makes it a much easier series to revisit than Westworld where the season mostly melted together.

Especially when you are doing it for HBO, which has a weekly release format. I still don't like it when a Netflix show does it, but at least it is plausible that someone can just sit down on day one and binge the thing.

Those are good points. I think this might actually be a case where we are both right, and all the motivations we have mentioned are true for various people. It's a bit simplistic for me to slap a single motivation on a whole generation.

It's an interesting question, and it felt like the show didn't really even consider. It was played as if her going back for her non-existent daughter was automatically a good thing. It felt even weirder on the back her being a complete uncaring psychopath to other robots since she woke up, controlling them…

Slither was like the best kind of horror/sci-fi comedy you would stumble onto on late-night cable in the '80s. It's the sort of thing we mostly lost when B-movies disappeared. Sure, most of them weren't that good, but every now and then you would hit an Evil Dead 2 or a Tremors. Slither isn't quite as good as either…

I've had that reaction whenever anyone has called me "boss man" at work. Maybe it is just my own anti-authoritarian streak, but I can't help but feel it is sarcastic, even when there is no outward indication.

It was kind of a shame that everyone on the Internet, including here, rushed to put up headlines about this episode being more positive shortly after it went up. I, along with most people I know, never go to experience the surprise of that particular twist.

I moved to Chicago in 1997 and started reading the Sun-Times as part of my way getting a feel for the city. One of the first conclusions I reached was that I hated Richard Roeper.

I found that the weakest episode of the series actually. The original is one of the best concert performances ever, and the DN episode doesn't have enough comedy in it to come off as anything other than a pale imitation.

Joel had a better chemistry with the bots in sketches certainly. Even though they are a small part of the show, that might be part of what leans me toward Joel. The sketches are where you actually see them.

And by contrast, the way most shows for adults tend to throw relationships into jeopardy every time the characters disagree makes the show look more childish and petty. Hera and Kanan do disagree on things, but the show doesn't use those disagreements to cast doubt on their relationship. They handle things like adults.

The Silly Little Showbiz Book Class.

Sure. Which means maybe it is finally time for Puritan domination of American Lit classes to come to an end.

I upvoted this comment because it reads really well if I inject it with an undercurrent of passive-aggressive resentment at your friends ditching out on your girlfriend's party

They both have their merits, but I do like Joel best. It mostly comes down to the fact that Joel actually seems to delight in some of these movies at times, while Mike seems to genuinely hate them. I enjoy Joel's approach a little more, but Mike's genuine aggravation is entertaining.

"The Star Wars “Complete Saga” Blu-ray isn’t actually complete anymore, since it doesn’t include The Force Awakens or Rogue One, but $58 is still the best price we’ve seen on the first six films."

No, it isn't. It just fits the Australian standard for slang though. Pretty much all made-up words in Australian slang are just a first syllable followed by a vowel: sickie, Maccas, bickie, chockie, servo, smoko.