Breh: there’s a reason Rotten Tomatoes ratings aren’t all either 0 or 100. It’s possible to enjoy a thing while also having one or more criticisms of it.

I get where Fred is coming from, though. Sometimes you don’t want your Twinkie to have a different flavor filling, or sprinkles on top, or whatever. You just want a damned Twinkie.

I don’t remember asking for that, but I’m also not as young as I once was, so maybe I’m forgetting.

Possibly, idk. My mother is a 68 year old conservative evangelical and even she doesn’t use that term anymore....

So your point is it’s great because they’re doing exactly the same thing they did over a decade ago?

No, what I’m saying is it just feels to me like they took the cake and declared it a pie. But I’m glad you are enjoying it (truly; I mean that with no trace of the condescension my mother used to have when making that remark. lol).

[spoiler] I’m not looking for a reboot so much as I’m disappointed because I feel like what I’m getting is: “it wasn’t This, like we thought. It was That all along!” And, again, not that I’m not enjoying seeing the band back together, I am; it’s just that the entire premise for their return feels a little thin.

Am I the only one who raised an eyebrow when Scully referred to gay as a “preferred lifestyle?” Or was that just intended to convey that she’s still super Catholic?

No, not like that.

I chuckled, too. It’s like they think we just got rid of our rotary phones or something....

Well, I’m two hours in now and other than having a nice flashback to my early 20s, I’m not really sure what I’m watching. I mean, I love seeing Mulder and Scully and Skinner again and everything, but I feel like I’ve seen all this before. My complaint with it is akin to the complaint some have with the new Star Wars:…

Exactly. The arc of the sports universe, so to speak, bends toward standardization. But in baseball, fans don’t even give a first thought, much less a second, to the difference between Cincinnati being a “bandbox” and SF being a pitcher’s park and the resulting impact on player performance. We don’t get up in arms and…

It’s also charmingly anachronistic that the dimensions of literally every MLB park are different, but that seems to bother exactly no one.

As someone who was a pre-teen in the late 70s/early 80s and raised fundie, I think it had more to do with “Christian rock” being the lesser of two evils than “Christian rock” being an objective good. IOW, I think people like my parents realized that the war had been lost and that if they couldn’t make it go away all…

Basically. I posted elsewhere that TFA made me feel like I was 7 again and XF just made me feel like I was in my 20s in the early 90s again. Simpson/X-Files was “destination TV” with friends every Sunday night.

Stryper! My good deed for the day will be not posting a video....

I thought it was because of paddle shifting technology? I mean, if F1 drivers are using it, why am I bothering with an old school clutch? What am I missing here....

Yes, this is bullshit. Having said that, the notion that women are/tend to be less inclined to negotiate isn’t just a sexist myth. I recruit in a field dominated by women and it is still not at all uncommon, when it comes time for the offer, for me to hear from the candidate, “well, we’re women; you know we don’t like…

Aargh, I meant when *they* get mad at *you.*

Ah. Yeah, I figured I must be missing something....thx.