I mean - on one hand, there's the emotional affective dimension of how cancer impacts patients and families in ways other diseases and conditions with similar prognoses don't. It's hard to think of other diseases that are as loaded, in terms of societal and emotional baggage as cancer.

From what I can tell, Ted had a glioma - not glioblastoma. Gliomas are far more common, and generally less aggressive by virtue of being less undifferentiated than glioblastomas.

I've always found that cancer is one of those potentially life-ending diseases that can sometimes turn otherwise rational, sane, educated people into new-age, homeopathic, faith-healing, snake oil-swilling wackjobs.

He is, after all, the best with The Cyber.

Despite my reservations going in - not quite, stand and turn away, or walkout-level; there's something to be said for that generation of conservatives having some skills and gift of oratory that their successors most clearly, decidedly lack.

I've always found it intriguing how the Republican playbook, at least at the national level, necessitates some measure of rightward swerve, even for their relatively moderate wing.

It's most likely a moot point, medically speaking.

Senator McCain spoke at my college graduation, in the early preliminary stages of his 2000 presidential campaign.

I had the good fortune to catch Maxwell Caulfield a few years back in a nearby regional production of Sondheim's A Little Night Music.

I'm thinking to an episode of Clone Wars, where the Nabooian senatorial delegation visits Rodia, and 3PO is having to explain how their ride got smashed to bits.

No, no, no. You're doing fanboy-ing wrong.

I would like to put in a Devil's Advocate argument on behalf of Lifeforce, going strictly by our contemporary Peak TV standard of "nonsensical, but deeply committed" as being roughly comparable to MLA's OP description of "good".

The only guess I can come up with (and let's please underscore guess) being that all interested parties - from MGM to DGA, could afford for Hooper to be a scab, but not Spielberg.

"Why are you guys fighting all the time? Let's all just sit here and enjoy a nice lukewarm cup of kombucha." - Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism

That still feels like too much credit for his endowment.

I was going to suggest a dickpool.

I found that hype aside, the rewatch actually drastically improved the viewing experience that I already enjoyed the first time through. Particularly at binge pace.

To say nothing of Feud.

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I might offer that Westworld makes a fascinating case, by virtue of that show putting most of its many and abiding mysteries right up front. In many ways, those mysteries drive plot and character development more notably, when compared to a lot of the other examples Erik references above.