Really, they blew it. Even those Wild Wild West followup TV movies were more entertaining than the 1999 film.

He's also obviously not a hater of a song because people he deemed as being "uncool" enjoyed it.

Scheer also explains what life has been like for him among the surface dwellers, away from the other Mole People, ha ha

Flea learned the hard way you can't beekeep without any shirt on.

Catching up on some comics reading -

Fred Dryer supposedly burned some bridges back in the day and gained a reputation among executives at the different networks as "difficult" - then he appeared in that six-episode Hunter revival years ago on NBC and was supposed to have been even more difficult.

Oh, a Vox link, well I'm definitely not going to click on that.

How could this be considered a YA novel? Where's the paranormal romance element? Or dystopic government to be resisted?

I was reminded of something written by William Goldberg, an author and TV producer - whose credits include various novels, a two volume compilation on various unsold TV pilots and writing and producing for various TV shows. He went on about backdoor pilots, or as they had been known earlier "nested spin-offs", why…

Ironside had a couple of spin-offs via the old "backdoor pilot" method. Jessica Walter played a police detective named Amy Prentiss who was promoted to Chief of Detectives i.e. Ironside's former job, and which was spun off into four two-hour installments of the NBC Mystery Movie.

NCIS which was a back door pilot spun off from JAG, begat NCIS: LA and NCIS: New Orleans for instance - there was also another back-door pilot for a series to be called: NCIS: RED. It was to star John Corbett as a member of a task-force with a mobile command center in a large truck. All the early buzz was that it was…

I found an article by Lee Goldberg, a TV producer and author, where he discussed the "backdoor pilot", like say, the beauty salon episode of the Nanny, and why networks like them. Since I'm having trouble posting the link thanks to Disqus, I'm just going to quote relevant parts.

Part of my problem is that under Moffat the show has it's moments, plenty of alright storylines but as it was put somewhere, he has these storylines that turn into overblown complex machines with tons of moving parts but which didn’t actually do anything. Lots of callbacks and references and so on that only seem to be…

I'm reminded of the Best of the Worst review that featured Corman's FF

When Homer races Jasper in his wheelchair and decides to bail out and just run was one of the better gags in the retirement home scenes - I think that Homer lurking about the retirement home could have potentially been a great A-story for an episode.

"It was a moral hardship for me to walk away from an unclosed case. I went back to my apartment in West Los Angeles and drank myself into a moderate stupor.

It's like a parody of every "tame" sitcom out there. The potential for anything interesting is wrung out, the premise that might as well not be there for how little is made of it, (he's a musician trying to work as a teacher! :don't really do anything with that besides the obvious:) a few "risque" jokes to show this…

I don't know, except this comment section suddenly smells like stale Doritos and BO.

Some RPGing is like homework, especially if you're talking about somebody's "homebrew" game that requires a slide rule to help with the ridiculously detailed stats for each character.

It's almost a parody of tame sitcoms.