A "parable for the treatment animals receive today"? Yikes. As with the bleeding-heart animal rights pablum in The Lost World (which sees dozens of people get eaten by a T-Rex just to spite a T-Rex hunter), why did anyone ever get the idea that people are expecting socially relevant commentary out of a monster movie…

It would be pretty funny if the conspirators threatening the director's wife unintentionally caused Trump's impeachment as a result of their efforts to defend him.

I'm guessing that the suits recently started to see rough cuts of some key scenes, and what they saw is so God awful that they're in full blown panic mode about whether they can even release it. The next director's job will be to see what they can salvage and reshoot everything else.

My read of the Saul character prior to seeing BCS was that he was more of a wannabe "*criminal* lawyer" who recognized Walt's inexperience, and sold himself as a much bigger fish in the ABQ underworld than he really was. In which case, Walt's moral descent and Saul's moral descent are linked.

It's pretty funny how in BrBa, he's always recommending murder as a solution to Walt's problems, but he never actually arranges a murder. The closest he comes is allowing Huell to lift Jesse's cigarettes, and we later find out that Saul had no idea about the role that plays in Walt's plan.

Walt did poison a child, set off a bomb in a nursing home, hire neo-Nazis to murder 10 people in prison, and sell his former meth cooking partner into slavery. If audiences still felt sympathy towards Walt after all that, why wouldn't they feel sympathy for Jimmy after he starts laundering drug money and using dirty…

I think that last scene between Jimmy and Chuck is always playing around in Saul's head whenever he has to make a decision. Obviously the "you never mattered all that much to me" was a brilliantly delivered act of emotional violence, but the part before that is probably more important to Saul's evolution. Chuck…

Nice parallel with Walter White's fate though — what good is having millions of dollars if you're all alone and can't enjoy any of it?

I like the idea that Jimmy accidentally killed Chuck by sending Mike over there, but I feel like Chuck would have found the camera if that's what the writers intended.

We're almost certainly going to find out he left the money to his ex-wife or a charity. There's no way Jimmy inherited millions of dollars prior to the events of BrBa.

It's just that Lynch always portrays violence against women in his work, often in a highly sexualized way, and Twin Peaks is mostly about how and why a father could rape and murder his daughter. And you're saying that rape is out of character for this universe. The question of "awareness" is kind of moot considering…

One kind of sad thing about the Cooper character is that he doesn't really have a previous life to return to. Everything about his personal life that was revealed, like his affair with Windom Earle's wife, still involved work in some way. His only friends seemed to be other FBI agents, his secretary Diane, and the…

It's extremely disturbing that the Coopleganger seems to have raped every woman that ever trusted Dale Cooper, shortly after he escaped the Black Lodge. It's implied with Diane, they seem to be laying the groundwork for a revelation that he raped and impregnated Audrey while she was in a coma, and the mentions of…

This is why I'm not even getting involved with the numbers. It's a rabbit hole.

Lot of covers on that list, and most of the covers were hits because of Brian Wilson's production.

Mike Love did write decent boy-girl lyrics on some of their songs, including Good Vibrations, but basically all of their hit songs from their 60s peak were composed by Brian Wilson. The other members had little to no input on the composition, arrangements or production of the music, and by the Pet Sounds era they…

Mike Love put out plenty of songs under the Beach Boys name, but that's like Jackson Pollock's dog kicking a can of paint onto a canvas and calling it a Pollock.

Brian Wilson didn't write Kokomo and doesn't appear on the original recording, so it's not really a Beach Boys song.

When I listen to it I always think it's sad that two of the Beatles never got to be 64, and that justifies its existence for me.

Watchmen does take place in an alternate 1986 in which Nixon stayed on as president for almost 20 years and the U.S. has an invincible superhero/weapon that the USSR can't match. The timeline is different enough that I never had a problem with buying that nuclear war was an inevitability.