He’s rich, so that may in fact be what happened.

He’s been so rich for so long that there’s no one left around him who will say “that haircut is a bad idea” or “maybe a little more media training would help.”

Whereas I’ve watched 45 minutes of Prodigy and its lead character, Dal, is impossibly bland, to the point that it’s seemingly lampshaded when everyone is filling roles to repair the ship and asks, “and what are you doing?”.

That meme feels like it’s been around forever, it’s hard to believe it was filmed near the end of 30 Rock’s run.

You remember correctly. It was a Maquis colony and, as another commenter pointed out, Sisko destroyed it to win an argument with Eddington.

The same can be said of Archer, Kirk, Picard, and Sisko. 

In fairness, Dune is a very, very, very long read. I read a lot of sci-fi, and wouldn’t even be attempting to read it now if it weren’t for Timothée Chalamet’s cheekbones.

Agreed! They were both good reads.

One of my favorite recent paranormal/horror novels was T. Kingfisher’s The Hollow Places, where a young woman finds a door to a deeply unsettling netherworld behind a crumbling wall in a museum. It had a very Twilight Zoney vibe.

You know what, I’m going to support the early 90s are superior argument because I was there.

Or better yet, Chase Masterson.

Shut up, that’s my favorite show!

Oh, this is the best coda to my recent rerun of the 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back podcast series on TekWar.

Looking forward to this. Even pre-COVID, there was going to be a very long wait between seasons 2 and 3. Now, by the time season 3 comes out, Discovery will have aired two more seasons, even though they started at the same time!

Exactly. Unless someone like Nolan or Spielberg pursues it, getting an original, female-lead movie with the budget and scope of a Bond film (No Time To Die cost $300 million) into production is a tall order.

Holy shit, OG James Bond was Sterling Archer.

Cliff Simon (Ba’al) passed away recently, too. It sucks.

I was going to suggest the Bob’s Burgers characters, but I don’t think that would reach the same audience.

I haven’t seen it or plan to, but I wonder if they felt the “befuddled old man” stereotype was in bad taste for a children’s show? Or maybe Lou’s old vibe isn’t as prominent among modern grandparents, and they chose “yoga hippie grandpa” over “Fox News watching loudmouth grandpa”?

He does an entire podcast in character as Ron Burgundy, so he could probably host Jeopardy! in character, too.