Maybe Leonard Pierce too! Then we can get reviews of books and comics that haven’t been written yet!

That’s what I love about the series. In the movies it is implied that Daniel. Johnny, etc. are obsessed about Karate, but presented as if that’s just their particular hobby. The show depicts a Southern California that’s more obsessed about high school karate than Indiana is about high school basketball.

They even got Thomas Ian Griffith to come back out of retirement from acting to reprise Terry Silver, the villain of the terrible Karate Kid Part III! I’m glad they did -- they made the character much more complex than in the film.

He was Detective Victor Isbecki in the 1980s cop show Cagney & Lacey. I know these days “coproganda” shows like that are viewed more skeptically, but in the context of the story, he was a reasonably good guy.

Hopefully, bringing both Chan and Macchio together in a movie will make it clear that Kung Fu and Karate (while distantly related) are two different things, which most Americans seem not to get.

I’m disappointed to learn that a “chemical axe” just means an axe treated with rustproofing. I was hoping it was some crazy mad science gadget that sprayed acid on trees to make them easier to chop down or something.

Or a motivational speaker for lumberjacks: “A.B.C. Always Be Chopping!”

He really made us believe he was a Dalit! Although I don’t get how someone from the lowest Indian caste made it to Chicago and became a G-man.

Other times he just desecrates a great David Brin novel while wearing a postal uniform.

Anyone for English Costner, as seen in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with his amazing accent in one scene and gone in another! And sometimes even within a sentence!

I guess I don’t get how a person could be afraid of a cat (house cat, obviously lions and tigers are different). Dogs, yes, a (big) dog can seriously fuck you up if it wants. But a cat? Maybe they’ll give you a scratch but that’s it.

Tippi might not like a movie she feels mocks Roar (she believed genuinely in the project and has been deeply into big cat conservation ever since). She’s still alive at 94.

And the only scandals associated with nickelodeon was that an actress might show too much of her ankle!

I have. I used to be a big Crichton fan (before his anti-environmental State of Fear, although in hindsight, Rising Sun, about how the Japanese are out to get us, and Disclosure, about how sexual harassment accusations are made by women who are are just angry at being spurned by attractive men, should have told me…

Maybe they’ll do a new version of King’s The Stand, which King himself has said was inspired by his reading Earth Abides as a boy.

Exactly. It’s not like the Legend of Bagger Vance where they are using the trope unironically — the Coens get that it is a problematic trope but are lampshading its absurdity.

While I’ll bet that the series will be about as faithful (that is, not at all) to the book as the Apple Foundation series is to its source, based on the title and description, Earth Abides will be based on George R. Stewart’s classic 1949 novel, one of the first post-apocalyptic stories. Weird that it wasn’t mentioned…

And Aubrey Plaza now is old enough to play the “old” version of a character? I don’t think I’ve felt so old since they got Marisa Tomei to play Aunt May.

The mafia kill her elderly ass (donkey) and she tracks the killers down!

He should have included a character doing the “penny-shaving” hack used in Superman III (and Office Space).