Oh, for fuck's sake.

Captain America was shot in 2.35, wasn't it? Shouldn't the comparison shots be shown in that, and not 1.77?

Actually it wasn't a reference to anything in particular. And if I was going to make a reference, it probably would be Aeon.

Oh Lord, what a dark, sad world we live in now.

The only ones I'd put it ahead of are Spy Groove, Undergrads and Good Vibes, and I can't even be sure about those, because I haven't seen them. Everything else— yeah, way above Clone High.

Eh, yeah. On the network that had Aeon Flux and Daria, yeah. After the showcases of experimental stuff on Liquid Television and Cartoon Sushi, yeah.

Hm. It's nice that an old show like this is being covered but… it's easily the least essential animated thing that ever aired on MTV.

That was bad. But this just makes it even worse.

Kyle MacLachlan joining an ABC show is like rubbing salt in a 20+ years old wound.

I wonder if The Seven Lady Godivas is still in print. It's so strange to see a Seuss story that's aimed at such a markedly different demographic.

So are a lot of first-movies that spawn big series, is kinda my point. "X-Men" was good, but was easily topped by "X2". Granted, it took them until "First Class" and "Days of Future Past" to get back to that level, but at least none of the intervening films killed the series. Likewise, I wouldn't call "Avatar" a great…

It's more like "A character like Han Solo? …Again?". I'm just tired of it, for the most part. I sat through "Firefly" and "Serenity" already. "Battlestar Galactica" has some of that, too. The overexposure of Han and Han-types has probably influenced my growing distaste for alpha-males in space. I just can't relate to…

If you say so. Frankly I do think that there's a little bit too much Han & Leia stuff in ESB, distracting (if not detracting) from the more interesting Luke, Yoda and Vader stuff.

It's both. Qui-Gon could've been a bit more wry, and though I'm not quite sure it would've been absolutely perfect for his character, it wouldn't have really hurt. Anyway, that's very different from my saying he's a Cooper-esque. If anything, that would mean that you'd make him even less wry, make him more of an…

a— Because that would be rape
b— I thought there was more chemistry between them than people give them credit for, but that's mostly because they're doing a medieval courtly love thing, not a modern romance.
c— He was a kid. No better or worse than the usual kid performer. He wasn't Haley Joel Osment, but then kid…

He was already wry enough for my taste. I'm reminded that an early idea in casting was Kyle Machlachlan. If you think of Qui-Gon as a positive, Cooper-type Jedi who's not really one of the insiders, but not bitter about it either, it makes sense. That bit where he just laughs off Obi-Wan saying he could be on the…

Actually, I always thought that Qui-Gon was the more outsider-y of the two. Obi-Wan's kinda a stick in the mud throughout the films, TPM especially. Qui-Gon's a bit earthier, more playful. You can see it more in the Tatooine section where he spars with Watto. A more wry Padme might not've gelled with her naive…

I can cop to iffy dialogue in parts, but I rather like Anakin's acting and the plotting behind his turn. It's very anime, to my eyes.

Okay. I think that reply says everything that needs to be said about the OT/PT generational divide. Even if it's facetious.

I think I made it as far as five episodes, maybe? Whatever it was, it was an effort just to convince a friend I'd given it a chance. It never grabbed me.