The only time Spike runs into old Syndicate people are during the five episodes dealing with his plot. In all those cases, he gets involved due to Vicious, who took over the Syndicate specifically so that he could hunt down and kill Spike. While there were others who were angry at Spike’s faked death, he made it clear…

I teach screenwriting. I know what a Maguffin is. I even used the term myself! So thanks for bringing up the Maltese Falcon to me, but I am 100% aware of that storytelling tool. And believe me, I understand advancing narrative and character. It’s a thing I’ve paid attention to over my 15+ years of writing screenplay…

I’m sympathetic to Jesse’s argument, and by extension yours. I *teach* screenwriting, so pacing a narrative is obviously important to me. And complaints about such matters should, one hopes, be addressed in rewrites. But I worked in the story department at Sony and routinely saw feedback/notes from union story…

I think we also have to bear in mind that Method was a product of its time, and one reason fewer people are explicitly fully Method these days is that a sort of low-level semi-Method has become universal. You don’t get the old Shakespearian Declamation style on TV or film anymore (well, not very much) - it’s not…

All good points.

It was a Pietta Colt 1873 replica chambered in .45. The sheriff announced that in one of the early press conferences. I don’t know how old or used it was. Pietta has been making replicas since the 60s and they’ve been used extensively in Hollywood since then. All SA revolvers of that period are prone to misfires. For…

I’ve never heard anything bad about Pietta’s quality. Where did you find this info? I’ve actually shot a Pietta Winchester 1892 and it was rock solid and had perfect fit and finish. I just looked up reviews for their Colt 1873 and they are all stellar and mention how shockingly accurate the gun is. Pietta and Uberti…

It’s so close to the OT/PT era that nothing anyone does matters. Nothing galaxy-changing can happen. Nothing drastic can change or happen to the Jedi and almost all of the characters have no effect on the OT/PT. There’s just no narrative heft to it for me.

Something like Mando/Book of Boba is different because the ST…

I think the people who thought it was underpowered never actually drove one and just commented based on how much horsepower they THINK they need in order to have fun. This is why we can’t have nice things and have 800hp Dodge Chargers instead.

I believe the i8 fell into a trap that many a young fellow has dreampt up: “Why don’t they just make a normal car that looks like a supercar?”

I love the i8. It is one of the few *automatic* cars I would consider. But it cost too much for what it offered.

Wait...did a reader really confuse Cutlass, as in a 17th century sword and cutlet, as in a tasty pork or chicken preparation?

Yet you never see, as I said above, these celebrities run for any smaller-scale governmental position.

Woah woah. J Wall most def didn’t go to Duke, he went to UK and did what many other UK players did- choked in the tourney.

Black Bruce Wayne vs poor Bruce Wayne would be an interesting litmus test, I think. You’re completely correct, of course, in that it’s the Wayne fortune that allows for the genesis of Batman. One could argue that Batman doesn’t always need to be wealthy to be Batman, but Bruce Wayne definitely needed to be wealthy to b…

She was there on behalf of a sponsor. This is a near certainty. Someone pointed out which one on the F1 subreddit but I don’t care enough to remember the name of it. Some influencer thing.

My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?

I think everything you said makes sense, but this in particular resonates:

You have a pretty mercantile perspective on these various relationships—but I’m not gonna say I necessarily think you’re wrong. I consider myself a pretty romantic guy, but I can’t imagine what billions of dollars would do to me (other than make me a yacht owner many times over.)

The point of all that wasn’t to have a nice lunch and leisurely stroll, it was to get them together alone away from their respective parties to talk to each other and to wind them up to do what he wanted for them. They got lost out there and wandered around on purpose in order to prolong negotiations.