I mean, these days Axl Rose shows up to things on time, performs the entire set and encore and then goes to bed at a reasonable hour so all things are possible...

Nearly the entire core cast of Carnivale is still alive; I live in hope that someone will realize that as long as we’re reviving fucking Dexter, we could maybe finally tie up the greatest dangling plot thread of the early aughts.

GdT doing a stealth Carnivale sequel with Cate Blanchett?  I didn’t realize I wanted this, but my god do I want this.

Fraction clearly spent some time in South Brooklyn -- the track suit draculas are 100% a real thing.

Bro? Bro! BRO!

Y’all are burying the lede: Pizza Dog Confirmed!

Sure, but we send people to jail for plenty of crimes that aren’t mass murder or terrorism. Regular old negligent homicide is still totally a thing, unless you do it while driving in which it’s it’s pardon me sir, I guess you were in a hurry to go home.

Honestly I’d be happy if NYC would just occasionally take drivers licenses away from people who run over children, but as a rule unless you fail a breathalyzer test on the scene, you won’t even be at serious risk of that happening to you.

Yeah, this is the thing about being a drunken shitbag in public repeatedly: when the time comes that you really want people to extend you the benefit of the doubt, they’re gonna find it really hard to do that.

It’s still fucking fantastic.

There’s at least one other familiar name in the background, suggesting that perhaps all of the Wachowski’s films have taken place in the Bound Cinematic Universe.

Fishburne is on record, repeatedly, as saying that Lana Wachowski never so much as called him about this project.  Nobody’s been able so far as I know to get Lana to comment on it.

I want to believe. They’ve now had three chances to make a Matrix sequel that wasn’t dogshit; surely they’ll get it right this time? But the fact that Lana Wachowski just never even called Laurence Fishburne, and let a dumb scheduling issue derail getting Hugo Weaving back does not inspire confidence.

That No Reservations episode is burned into my memory forever, because it also had a brief cameo by Jamie Hector and having only previously seen Hector in character playing Marlo Stanfield in season three of The Wire, it was incredibly disconcerting to see him expressing normal human emotions and smiling at people.

The entire time I was reading this article, I kept thinking “wait, isn’t this series supposed to be in chronological order? Why is Tom going backwards in time to 2012 or whenever it was that this crapfest came out?”

The problem with JMS is that — and I say this as a fan — you never know whether Good JMS or Bad JMS is going to show up. Do you get Season 3 of B5... or do you get Legends of the Rangers? Bad JMS can go toe to toe with Chibnall at his worst for producing dreck on deadline.

It’s a fair cop that he’s not an outsider artist in the way that the term is often used — he was published by relatively mainstream (for pulp) presses and had a clear creative relationship with his peers. (Heck, he even co-wrote a novel or two, IIRC.)

It’s not the last line in the movie, but I still insist that Tony Stark’s last words in Endgame should have been “Hi inevitable, I’m dad.”

Reasonably smart 6 year-old’s 13 year old sister: “or you could reduce the fertility rate of sapient species by half!”

But my real question is why don’t people complain about Thor’s worthless side quests in the same way they do about Rose and Finn’s in The Last Jedi?