As a dad, I can confirm, at least on the literary side: I’m finding written fiction less and less interesting, in favor of history (though not primarily military history, so I might not be a Real Dad™). For visual media, though, I still don’t really like documentaries, and virtually everything I watch is fiction.

Well, at least they decided to keep it as desaturated and colorless as the first season. Who exactly is it in Hollywood that keeps saying, “You know, what people really want to look at is dark, ugly visuals”?

I also have this one:

Generally I think the moniker “legacyquel” implies the presence of actors from the original as secondary characters; deep nostalgia for the original; and a certain level of cashing-in on that nostalgia. Aside from the ostensible setting (road gangs in post-apocalyptic Australia), I don’t think Fury Road really meets…

I propose that every comments section in articles about this show instead be dedicated to other purposes. For example:

I see you’ve played billy-coiny before.

Australian dollars, of course.

My mom is a perfect sphere, so no.

Those shows feel like they were generated by AI, so having the coverage about them written by AI feels appropriate. I think if we could get to the point where the only viewers of those shows were also AI, we could cordon their entire existence off into a closed-loop AI ecosystem and get on with better things.

Christ, Article a Video

I’d argue that Fury Road isn’t a legacyquel, to be honest.

I’ve gotten to the point where I no longer get even a little excited when I hear they’re making a legacyquel to something I loved as a kid. Burned too many times, and learned my lesson. This doesn’t mean one can’t be worth seeing, but... it’s just not important any more.

Right? I can’t imagine the Catholic Church getting huffy over something getting any real traction in the U.S. these days.

What about octal? Or are you one of those anti-octal zealots?

lol at the concept that any version of this show isn’t a morally corrupt nightmare

For sure. I’ve been rewatching the entire series lately in the run-up to the finale (I’m partway through Archer: 1999). I remember during the original run that the popular consensus was that the coma seasons, while still written by Reed, didn’t have that same spark, and I think that’s still generally true. But…

Tig Notaro!

They should do that, but the prosthetic should keep getting larger and larger each time we see it (and of course we should see it repeatedly) until it’s like nine feet long and he’s dragging it around in a wheelbarrow and people are like, what the actual fuck

Because, sure, there was some value to civilization in writing this story this way.

Oh I was totally joking, but now I’m wondering what the double entendre is?