I preferred Placebo’s cover of “Running up that Hill” to the original - like hands-down - at least until this last go-round with Stranger Things, wherein it beat me into submission (put me in an arm-bar and made me cry uncle) - and I finally had to admit that the original was good too.

They put blink-and-you’ll-miss-it guts in there, so I don’t blame you.

This is really going to flare up like diaper rash when “Wicked” comes out. I mean, “The Sound of Music” and “My Fair Lady” are both 2 hours 55 min. They had intermissions.

Yeah, John being goofy undercuts the tone of the song, even though, yeah, were he around, he might be tempted to undercut the tone of the session on camera. There’s a little bit of “dumping out all that’s left in the junk-drawer” feel to all of it, which is fine. You generally dump out junk drawers to find little…

I like this take. The irony fits nicely too: If Paul and Ringo want to release “new” Beatles material featuring John, then the lyrics are all going to be about Yoko. It’d be funny if she was like “Oh, looky here: I found ten more tracks never released, in a box in the attic.”

Nvm. I think it’s a fake trailer. They suckered me.

Speaking of Andor... AV is sleeping on the first Andor 2 teaser dropped today. Including a shot of a certain character assumed dead... 

With Loki able to control his time and location hopping, I feel like emotionally the show had to flange way out into his love for his friends (hard to build in just 10-ish episodes, but they did get there) so that later, with his new found power, he’s going to be Really Badly Tempted to cash in and reassert his Godly…

It’s a little Jeff Lynne-ish too, but that’s not surprising. Of the three "new releases" of the past 20 years (yikes!) Real Love is the winner. 

Yeah, the back half went “Poof.” I think they’re doing some sort of “sit on it for two years and then let Netflix have it” thing. At least I heard that’s where all these shows are going, unless Tubi takes off for some reason.

Oh, you know, Arya could have chased her down, played coy until Cersei said something dismissive, then bam! smacked her around, put her in an arm bar, led her out into an open courtyard, and signaled for Dany and the dragon to have at her.

Well, it’s part of the humor of his character to blurt out really obvious things too. So it’s meta. But it’s so obvious that it’s meta. A-a-ah-Aaahhhh - a ploop (falls into worm hole)

Read Deckoning: Second Verse Same as the First

They could swerve too and make her Kang’s Egyptian Queen or someone from his past. 

I think I agree with a B- grade. Majors’ stammer could have been turned down from (kindly) 9 to 7. But the tonal shifts needed some smoothing. Last week we had a major (Thanos Level?) mass genocide... right? This week people running from a cartoon clock. Miss Minutes’ threat is kind of lost on me. Feels too “Disney…

Renslayer is a Kang variant. Is that where everyone’s mind went? That’s what I jumped to. Maybe, maybe not. Would fit though.

Esp Uhura as she’s portrayed now on SNW. Arguably all the women on SNW could fit into this category. Maybe Una and Reyes are iffy, but Una knows engineering, and Ortegas knows... piloting (?) She assertively flies the ship, anyway. Oh and La’an is all muscle. But the show bends over backwards to make sure everyone…

Yay, justice for Astrid! Or Aphid... or Asscam or whatever her name is.

I think the movie is going for a concept of “evil” or tragedy that is, at the start for all these people, like three degrees of separation from the main action. “I know a butler who might have been a Nazi forty years ago.” ... “I know a friend of a friend who is an astronaut about to go on a risky mission.” ... “I…

I always imagined that section of Tubular Bells as the “Klingons Singing” sequence.