Yeah me too about the avatars. No Avatar: The Last Kinjabender.

A good video game can provide 100 hours of entertainment (or more; with mods I seem to have spent over 200 in Fallout 4 — I know that because Steam tells me, which I know doesn’t fit into the “used” category, but Steam sales often mean you can get an older game for a couple of bucks). I dropped Netflix recently, even…

Also, like Tevye the Milkman from Fiddler, about a Jew who suffered persecution.

And it is interesting to hear what being on the set of a CGI-fest is really like. I know even back in the days of practical effects not all the explosions and things really happened on set but were done on scale models in post, but a fair amount actually did happen, which I imagine would be easier to act around.

Molly Ringwald turned out to be a surprisingly capable author though. I bought her first collection of short stories as a “Ha! Claire from The Breakfast Club thinks she can write! Yeah, right” ironic buy, but they were actually really good.

I think “About Last Night” was a reasonable depiction of hookup culture and how casual sex can turn into love even if that wasn’t the initial intent. I think it has aged pretty well as shown by the recent remake that was pretty close to the original only with a Black cast. “Saint Elmo’s Fire” didn’t age very well and…

Did that ever get confirmed? I remember a few years ago Snipes was trying to say that all the weird stuff he supposedly did on set (like demand to be called Blade 24/7, getting high in his trailer all the time, and so on) was made up by Patton Oswalt. Then that whole story seemed to die. Did maybe somebody on the…

And it’s second best of the very loosely defined “Cloverfield Trilogy”!

I liked Fierce Creatures — especially the exchange where the zoo director is defending his use of animatronic animals to save money and says it doesn’t really matter if it their panda isn’t really from Africa. When it is pointed out that pandas are from China he says “Well, not ours. Ours was hand made in Belgium!”

I think just the opposite. Give me practical effects for robots. If they look a little jerky, so much the better -- robots aren’t supposed to move smoothly!

But it is weird how, never having read Blum’s article where he coined it, I know the term mostly as a (value neutral) shorthand for the actors (including the women) in The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire, and similar mid-1980s films. And as I’m in my 50s, I saw those movies in the theater. The term was out there even…

His greatest role was as the sleazy villain in Wayne’s World where his real-life reputation at the time really made the role believable.

“That 90s Show” (Season 19, Episode 11). This provides a new backstory for Homer & Marge’s early years. Homer is a twenty-something singer in a grunge band “Sadgasm” in the 1990s when Bart is conceived, so definitely GenX. This obviously conflicts with “The Way We Was” (Season 2, Episode 12) which was set in 1974.

Yeah, but that’s weird (except maybe in superhero stories)— most shows either have the characters age if they want to keep the story in the present, keep the story set in a time period (even it means that M*A*S*H* runs longer than the actual conflict in Korea), or be so vague as to time setting that it doesn’t really…

That’s a great depiction of how the shifting timeline of The Simpsons ruins references. Homer started out as a late Boomer (or “Generation Jones” — basically Boomers who were too young to have been of age in the 1960s and thus have nostalgia for the 1970s instead), then was retconned to be a GenXer, and I think since…

Isn’t he supposed to be playing a ghoul on the Amazon Prime Fallout series? Or did that get cancelled already?

I don’t know why, but this scene from Mad Men cracks me up to this day. Do you think Don believed Peggy’s performance and thought he had a wrong number?

This isn’t the first time there was a “in-universe” book published as a tie-in. Does anybody remember the terrible novel that was a tie in to LOST that was supposed to be the novel Hurley found on the show? Googling it I find that it was titled “Bad Twin”. I remember reading it hoping that it would have some insight…

Maybe they mean the uptick in her career is as successful as the Renaissance Center in Detroit was in revitalizing that city.

I think The Sarah Connor Chronicles was generally well received (even if it only got two seasons — but they were real seasons with 31 episodes in total, none of these eight episode seasons common these days).