Yeah, and a large amount of Andor is this same trope, where the Only Person Who Sees It tries to get the Empire to take the threat of rebellion seriously.

The theater people are/were hoping for an increase in concession sales, which makes them more profit than ticket sales.

I’d like to object to “holding your hand” as a sneer term for what I’d call “telling the story”.

It was written by somebody who calls a steering wheel a “driving wheel”, so...?

My favorite minor point about TS is how it invisibly shifts from being a Cold War spy thriller to a WWII resistance movie.

All the Community Notes will just say “Dog? Dog.”

I haven’t gotten to S2 because I found S1 so not-what-Asimov-wrote that I was annoyed, but I will say in retrospect that I admire how willing the show was to troll its audience with “Gaal Dornick is a black woman? Wait, Salvor Hardin is ALSO a black woman? Are you just super-woking us for no reason at all?” until you…

True, but (only ever having seen about that one as well) I’m not going to forget which one has Bruce Campbell. (Also, those other two titles could probably have been switched and nobody would have complained.)

One result of this whole thing is that I finally will remember which USA-broadcast-two-white-guys-one-of-them-sort-of-unsavory show is Suits and which one is White Collar.

It was definitely weird seeing that and Rocketman in the same season and realizing they were talking about the same actual person.

This seems like one of a small group of movies that were sort of “made for an audience that does not actually exist”. I haven’t seen it so I’m curious: is the first half really made as if it is not a horror movie, and more to the point, has anyone ever accidentally seen it because they thought it was a romcom? My…

“the Forgotten Realms, one of Dungeons & Dragons’ oldest and most-explored settings”

I’m not sure I can take the revelation that Oliver Putnam wrote a song that good.

It didn’t help that some people misspelled it with the circumflex on the first e so that it looked like the French word.

I haven’t seen the TV show, but just reading the summary here it strikes me as interesting/useful that they reuse the names that Cronenberg gave his male twins, Beverley and Elliot, which are rarely-male and usually-but-not-always-male at least in the US.  (As in Will&Grace’s Beverley Leslie, I guess.   Maybe a…

“Going on memory and not actually cataloging”

OK, I checked again, and the one I was thinking of was the early scene where Nandor refuses to be drained into Colin; Lazlo says you’ll do something or other “at your peril”, which he renders “per-EEL”. Before that, he gives us “wonderful” as “hwonderful”, like Stewie Griffin insisting on “Hwil Hweaton”. Just little…

Ah, an excuse to repost this:

There might be more than one!  But let’s see what you come up with.

Yeah, you should not be constantly wondering if Kirk’s about to phaser you.