Discman.

Meh. People loved the iPod Mini, and they killed that off, and things seem to have worked out OK for Apple ever since.

God, this. Every time they update iOS, they do something to make the Music app worse.

And fuck the Swiss Army Knife Company too!

There's balloons. Balloons are always fun.

Yeah, Tati is one of the exceptions; I recall hearing that his estate wanted all the films to come out together, and Criterion was pretty game to get the Hulot films back in print. By contrast, you can see how they've been slowly doling out Chaplin and Harold Lloyd films for the past couple years. It was rumored…

One of the things that I have really liked about Season 3 of Twin Peaks is that it's like Inland Empire, but with characters we care about, and not shot on butt-ugly VHS tape.

I also honestly wonder if you even could make heads-or-tails out of the FWWM without at least a passing familiarity with the events of the series. I know that it's fashionable for filmmakers to say a movie "stands on its own," but seriously.

Yeah, unlike other home video publishers, Criterion rarely does a "The Complete Works of Director ___" set anymore, and instead will dribble out releases over time so that the releases don't compete against each other. (The exception being when they can bundle one really famous work like, e.g., Umbrellas of Cherbourg…

Same. This is the most disappointing Criterion release in forever given that the "Complete Mystery" box is out there.

Will you take a personal check? If so, meet me in Scumville in 30 minutes.

Poor Megyn [sic]: Too tainted by Fox to be taken seriously, but too self-serious to be on Fox anymore.

Nah, the Muppet movies stopped being auteurist affairs after they fired Rainer Werner Fassbinder during the shooting of The Bitter Tears of Fozzie the Bear.

Yeah, I think that they realized that they wrote themselves into a hole in Dorne and tried to wipe the slate clean in the quickest (and least-elegant) way possible in S6.

The logistics of such a huge, expensive show with a giant cast and 4 crews have started to take a toll. In S5, they wanted to use that Spanish palace for Dorne, but they only had something like 5 days to shoot there, so they just crammed it in. But at the same time, they had a lead character (Jamie) who they needed…

Even the bluest collar worker would have better taste than to eat a gluten free ciabatta roll.

I was in Italy this summer and offered a "ham and cheese" sandwich by a boat driver, which sounded kind of boring. Then I got it, and it was amazing prosciutto and fresh mozzarella on a sourdough roll. It probably would have been sold for $9 in the States, but it was just everyday lunchbox food over there.

That was all we are.

There was that time that Guns N' Roses stopped its set after Metallica had tried to set James Hetfield on fire. It didn't end well.

Four main movies ("Return of the King" would get split into two movies, as is the style of the day), but an Extended Cinematic Universe of stand-alone movies on the Kings of Numenor, Durin's Folk, the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen, and probably something about the Elves leaving Middle-earth.