It also helped that in America we eventually got a few court decisions that said, yes, video games are a form of expression protected under the First Amendment.

"How'm I supposed to make the Kessel Run that fast?"

It's a play on words- the phrase also works as a response to the preceding line, but it's also the title of an old show about a robot.

That or he's Mr. Immortal.

Does anyone, at any point, turn on the sun?

I am continuing to love Jansen as Aida. She just does such great physical work, moving like an android, very efficient.

After I made the "This is how Maximum Overdrive started!" joke last episode, they actually go and reference it. Very Archeresque.

Her Southern accent was disarming.

I'll give the game some credit for the sheer variety of design, having almost every level have some new gimmick. Clearly a lot of planning went into it, it's just the result is a game full of levels where one misstep kills you instantly.

I would honestly have been interested if they'd made it with cartridge capabilities. Old NES cartridges are still all over the place, including for a lot of games that Nintendo can't put on the VC store because they're all licensed (Batman, etc.), and most of them are fairly cheap.

COAL

Dear California, NY, Mass., and Washington- thanks for getting us a season 3.

Not necessarily, I feel like visually it could have been a lot stronger (and should have been given the staginess of the material.) Definitely compares unfavorably to Tarkovsky or Kubrick.

I'll give them credit for being the reason Brooklyn 99 got a second season.

"So I'm into guys now?"

See right now this is what I'm talking about.

But we're not boinking… we're CRASHING!

It honestly left me cold. I'm kinda sick of that ultra-austere minimalist visual style- I know Amy Adams is pale but she's not THAT pale. It feels like they wanted to shoot this in black and white but you can't get funding for black and white movies so they just really desaturated it instead.

It's there in the sense that even now most of the people who do make it are already well-connected or have a lot of resources to draw on, they can afford the time spent struggling, while others have to eventually pay their rent and buy food and so end up giving all their time to more reliable jobs.

It really is even weirder than you would think. They didn't just stick an Olympic gymnast into an Enter the Dragon ripoff. They made a goddamn epic.