Not necessarily. The objection comes in where I knew the wife was going to kill the bird - they telegraphed that pretty poorly. Not certain the Lucas parallel works because we're cool to enjoy the ride when seeking thrills - we're paying for those thrills, we know what we're getting. Indy's never gonna die at the…

It was a nice post. I do think that having a suburban wife destroy birds on its own is fine and have no issues with the symbolism. The problem arises when it's on a show programmed by a network whose very foundation was built by a story with an alpha male protagonist possessing a mysterious past as well as a…

Without looking, is this the "Bad Junk, Man! Bad junk!" Quincy episode? That was awesomely awful back in the '80s! I gotta check this out!