And for the fact that unlike the traditional disclaimer in films, animals definitely *were* harmed in the filming, which may put people off even if they don’t mind the gore.

Exactly. I grew up watching Tom Baker as the Doctor (on PBS where British shows used to be shown in the US before people realized there was actual money to be had) and was just fine with those 1970s effects. Even today when I see a rerun of a Tom Baker or Peter Davison episode I think they are charming.

I’m not sure I buy The Ghoul being less intelligent than Lucy and of equal intelligence than Maximus as those stats show, though. Coop may have become an amoral asshole over the centuries in the wasteland, but he’s no fool.

The NRC seems to be the fan favorite faction.

The weird thing is when he is playing pre-war Cooper Howard, Goggins even *looks* like Ed Harris here. I know they look vaguely similar to start with, but I wonder if they are intentionally making him look like Harris with makeup or something.

I wonder if Maximus and Thaddeus are dim enough to qualify for the “idiot savant” perk (for non-players, while having a high intelligence is generally a good thing for your character to have, having a particularly low score can let you succeed in some situations because your character’s own idiocy works in their…

The witch of course. Which (ha!) will fix the problem in the original where the guy in the corner at the end was off his mark and ended up blocking our view of it.

I liked it, although maybe it’s because I have a poor sense of direction and so I can see the horror in getting lost and realizing that you’ve been walking in circles easier than others. Like others have said, its primary sin was that it spawned a whole slew of found-footage movies with nauseating shaky hand-held…

I’d hope so. I can’t imagine they could support multiple seasons if that’s all the show was about. Still, the inspiration from the famous 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 disaster is brought up in every description of the show, so cannibalism is hardly unexpected.

What I mostly remember about Blur was that they composed the call sign that was going to be used for the British Beagle 2 Mars lander in 2003. This was the mission that was going to show the world that the UK was a serious scientific power again. However, it crashed during landing and was unresponsive. Was the…

Because you say you haven’t played any of the games I’ll bring up the fact you can play as a woman in them, and there are even small differences in game play and many people play through them multiple times with different character options including sex.

Yes, I suppose Hunchback is also an example of putting a child-unfriendly story into the Disney meat grinder.

The games imply that basically the 1960s never happened in the Fallout universe so 1950s culture just continued rather than reverting to it later on. Although in the show’s universe apparently the civil rights movement must have happened at some point because Cooper is married to a Black woman with no apparent racist…

I’ve never watched an episode of Yellowjackets but saying that cannibalism in that is a spoiler is absurd. That’s the whole premise of the show that isn't hidden at all! What if the stranded soccer players from Alive (and real life) were hot girls!

Gnidnif Omen — it’s set in Wales (Gnidnif looks vaguely Welsh).

A Disney film about the Antichrist? Will it have songs and will he get a cute animal sidekick?

When the movie’s copyright lapsed in 1974, it became a go-to holiday broadcast for television and cable companies, allowing the film to seep deeply into the American consciousness.

I was going to post that, but glad that you thought of the same thing!

It’s on brand for Calfornia though. That’s a state that has a town named Ontario meaning it is referred to as Ontario, CA despite the fact that this could equally be interpreted as Ontario, Canada.

It would be great if they threw in an Easter egg for the game players by having someone say “There’s another settlement that needs your help. I’ll mark it on your map” and have Lucy shoot them.