Eh, people confuse PB's intentionally designed overprotection for evil because they've been taught that 'Freedom' should be near absolute. She's a misguided character at most for being authoritative to an extreme. It's just lazy shorthand to discuss her political as a dictator in a world where she is meant to play…

It's never been explored since the original episode between Marcelline and Simon when he raised her and there was a sentient pink bubble gum creature (or there about…) that 'attacked' Simon. There is a whole back story waiting to be explored as either PB is the first sentient creature besides Simon and some random…

The numbers are interesting but arguably are less significant than we think since ESPN has long been on 'basic cable' and as sports have moved to their own more specialized channels with mostly in-market games played on local TV it's hard to justify ESPN from it's heyday in the 1990s into the early 2000s when it had…

I only saw the Spoils of Babylon on netflix and it took me about 3 months to bother with it. The first two episodes left me so stupidly overwrought i couldn't bother with it then for some reason it clicked and became hilarious. This one looks like they've toned back Wiig and that alone will make me watch it. She's…

Paying tribute? I'm confused when the 'mashup' concept moved from 'hah, I know those two things!' to a wholly accepted form of cultural interpretation. I guess it started out as satire….then just lost itself?

The beat writer at the time seems to contradict the Ellis story but honestly, the Pittsburgh Pirates WERE the sports team of Pittsburgh at the time, the Steelers hadn't won a superbowl yet, the Penguins were in their infancy and wouldn't be worth watching until Mario Lemieux showed up in the 1980s. So if the pirates…

Is it, really? Outside the US piracy is much more rampant, inside it seems to be completely staid and really not much more than a blip in the function of these companies. I think atleast the two big services currently (Amazon & Netflix) are built to be complimentary in that most people are willing to purchase Amazon…

I agree, the fact that up until perhaps 2 years ago (maybe 3) streaming was a pleasure held only by large cities and people with beefy enough broadband connections that the reign of the DVD is almost minimized by the story itself.

I highly doubt cloud storage will ever become strictly paid, it will likely join either your ISP as a default benefit or companies like google will keep it free simply because they can data mine your information for research purposes. That's the real value for all these free cloud services, simply being able to…

Any number of reasons, panic, shame, insurance, the list goes on. People are weird and most people see suicide as a shameful act and will attempt to remove most of the trappings to make seem like an accident or remove some evidence like a note to keep the shame down. The reasons vary but they're all done.

I've been having that same feeling for the last few years as I enjoy listening to the commentary on a few shows (Family Guy, Simpsons, etc..). I'll put it on in the background while I work on something else. I'm not sure where this will go as streaming becomes the standard but I highly suspect once speeds increase…

Well again, the cost of Betamax tapes never came close to the VHS. Longevity of repeated tapings aside Betamax never could pay for itself if you recorded movies/programs and didn't re-use tapes as often. I actually agree with you in technical terms (and maybe I'm missing the satire/sarcasm?) but the market likes…

I'm starting to see the 'well you only own the license to see it!' argument cropping up in the comments. With modern DVD players that have internet connections they can turn off your DVD as well. Never mind that no studio would ever actually try that argument in court, it makes for a fun debate within the legal…

Who did? The public didn't want to pay close to $40-50 per cassette in 2015 dollars when a $10-20 cassette had near the same capacity and while 480i was standard it wasn't a huge jump. But hey, fun fact: Betamax was up until the last few years the gold standard of the movie/TV industry….though now it is mostly…

I normally wouldn't respond but there is a major difference between say the JFK assassination and the OJ Trial vs. 9/11 or Cobain's death. The facts in the previous two are consistent and objectively reviewed with a simple answer for all of them (i.e. more than 1 man shot JFK, whoever the OTHER shooter was is up for…

That's much more accurate, after OJ Simpson's trial the constant spin and 24/7 news cycling of what was a slow moving trial turned the corner. There had been plenty of cases like it in the past and they played out in the newspapers, this case played out on TV in real-time and made CourtTV a thing and really drove the…

That golden era of 'tv animation' only peaked because two people got involved: Steven Spielberg and Michael Eisner. Spielberg had younger children and wanted a show on the air that appealed to his own childhood, essentially using the formula he and Lucas would use their entire career, mine their childhoods for the…

I feel like I want to like their work more, I'm fairly on-par with a metaphysical belief in much of the universe but I almost feel like they're trying to hard to reach for the exact answers to the universe for the sake of completeness. They feel like the kind of people who go into eastern mysticism not because it has…

The main reason why people don't really fear the internet and thus these movies fall flat is that at its core the internet is an extension of people and society. No doubt big corporations shape an unfair part of it (AVC owned by Onion Inc. is a rare example that really proves the rule…) but by comparison most of the…

The original interview is actually really gracious to her. If anything he made a point that she wasn't the right fit for the three of them and it isn't surprising that some actors just don't 'click' the way the four of them had. He certainly seemed annoyed with her back then but almost 20 years mellows out people…