Love her. Character actors always give the best interviews.

Ditto.  In the very important echo chamber that is my own head, Mad Men is aging terribly while Hamm’s cameos on 30 Rock and Kimmy Schmidt are aging like fine wine.

I can see how that would be a selling point for child readers! After all, that’s why the heroes of so many kids books have dead parents or at least dead mothers—how else are you supposed to get into some danger?

Insulting to whom? Gabaldon? I think she can handle it. Compelling, wildly successful writers like she is always pull stuff up from the basement (that is, the subconscious, the semi-conscious, and that’s true whether it’s genre fiction, literary fiction, or whatever). They linger on things that preoccupy them. Now if…

Er ... no it’s not ridiculous. She goes to that well a lot. Rape was a too common occurrence in the olden days and it’s also a too common occurrence now but many other authors have convincingly conveyed both eras without numerous long, lovingly detailed rape scenes (and a charismatic hero who endorses corporal…

I always shout “drink!” when that happens.  If I happen to have a drink on hand, I also drink.

Good call!  Weapons get the equivalent of dusty tarps pulled off of them too--same principle, somehow the jaded owner is just as good at using them after years of being out of practice and out of shape as he was back in the beginning.

The songs in that movie were genius.

They parodied that nicely in Not Another Teen Movie.  The hero’s sassy sister does a makeover on the shy girl--and she literally just takes off her glasses, undoes her ponytail, and is like “that’s it!”  (BTW I had to look this up to remind myself of the title and look who plays the hero--Chris Evans!)

This is the problem with Gandalf, and Dumbledore who was clearly very very much inspired by Gandalf (and Merlin in The Once and Future King, etc.). Just explain everything that’s going to happen and how to deal with it and everything would be so much simpler. Dumbledore really took this to a higher level what with…

“[T]he tenuous link to canon that is Baby Yoda”??? Don’t you mean “the life-altering cuteness force that is Baby Yoda?” I mean, he made Werner Herzog cry. Think about it. That song about Baby Yoda set to the tune of “Into the Unknown” is all that’s getting me through quarantine.

That makes sense--but I hope movie theaters are still a thing a year or two from now.

Will watch this.  I can’t say I fully understand the financial implications of VOD versus theatrical release for a movie of this scale, but maybe it will do as well or better this way?

I think the good thing about the commercialization of space versus other things that get commercialized is that space will have the last laugh.

He wants to do it.  Let him go.

Hard agree. If they had let it play out for a season or so then had everyone realize they were collectively being assholes, that would have been one thing, but they really committed to it for the duration.  Honestly, I found the show really uneven--there were parts that were great, but it didn’t warm my heart the way…

Tweet him this article and he’ll take care of the rest.

Same gossip happened with 90210.  Luke Perry’s hairline was so high I was convinced he was like 38, but then he looked pretty much the same for the rest of his life (RIP).

It’s kind of a shame, I think. He was so great in Back to the Future. If he could have dialed his own personal weirdness/weirdness-seeking down like four notches he could have done so much more mainstream stuff (not saying that’s a loss for him, per se, but it is for us viewers).

I was recounting the plot to my kids yesterday, coincidentally, and they were captivated (I’m going to wait a few years before I let them watch it). But when I tried to tell them the plot of the sequel, even after looking on Wikipedia, we were all lost and had to give up.