E.T. is a far worse film than Hook.

This might read like trolling but I hated that gross, messy, ugly turd when I was a child, and I still hate him now. Just like The Goonies that movie coasts on nothing bit nostalgia.

(Unlike my favourite 1980s kiddie-classic, of course: Labyrinth, which is objectively perfect, needs…

I want to see more stories about high-end players being at a disadvantage, please.

THANK YOU

Aw man, I thought that said Flubber.

It’s a reference to Community - Danny Glover leaves the show with a cameoing LeVar Burton to... sail the world, Ithink, and the subsequent season has an offhand reference to the fact that their ship went missing and they’ve disappeared.

... god damnit take your star.

Dune you think that one’s a reach?

Just a news chyron running in the background stating that Cara Dune and LeVar Burton haven’t been seen for months and are feared missing.

First Contact does feel like it needs the scale of a movie.

How can he go to court if he’s barred from public buildings?

Counter-argument: The Prequel Movies.

See I have. a hard disagree with you that “Kill the past” is hamfisted—it’s a prescient scream at the audience that The Obi-Wan Kenobi Fun-Time Exile Adventure Hour doesn’t have to be inevitable if we reject obsessive nostalgia. I’s a claim that Star Wars can go do something different, can be more than what it is -…

Crucially it also taught that logic divorced from empathy is useless (although it did perpetuate the myth that emotions are illogical extend of a key component of logic). But yes, more than anything Star Trek often called pilloried as being the show where people sat around and talked instead of having exciting action,…

I will go to my grave insisting that Cracked was better than MAD, even though my bias was entirely down to the fact that my local IDA only stocked the former. Well that and the old Cracked dot com was hugely formative for me, and greatly missed. Not the zombie site it is today (thanks same group of media vulterism…

Sorry I use cable in my usually shorthand of ‘having TV that worked at all.’ I grew up in a valley in rural Canada: if you didn’t pay for ‘cable’ (even if that was just the basic package of channels 2-29) you got 2.5 fuzzy channels via an antenna or a satellite dish. I’m old enough to remember when Canada got proper…

They were ties, weren’t they. My Pokémon cards were the parody ones they printed in Cracked magazine.

Yes, I had the off-brand off-brand cards. They were nothing but reprehnsible puns. ‘Geodud’ is the only one I can remember. Comedy gold.

That’s because there was no trilogy. Seriously, that’s emerged in the years since Rise of Skywalker was such a disaster: there was no plans, no wider story arc, Rian Johnson just got handed the keys to a sequel and told to write one with no guidance (in much the same way JJ Abrams chucked the pilot of LOST at a bunch…

Pokémon got big in the 90s when I was a kid, and it was the first show that really drove home how much poorer I was from my friends, as it was a product that was so aggressively monetized across multiple mediums that to ‘get it’ you had to hav a gameboy, buy the cards, buy the little toys, and be able to afford cable…

I try to be fair because, hey the first season of The Next Generation  is terrible. Second Season’s not amazing either. The first season of Deep Space Nine is tonally all over the place and features some real dogshit episodes. Not only is the first season of Voyager rubbish it has an achingly tedious pilot (and I’d…

Hey, I hear Strange New Worlds is pretty decent. And Lower Decks starts with six of the worst episode of television, six just abysmal Rick and Morty clones... and then to my shock and horror, like a switch being thrown, episode seven was good? And then I liked eight? And then I plowed through the first and second…