Of course they had a happy ending. The fact that, decades later, a new story was made up in which they later had an unhappy ending doesn’t change the way that RotJ, and the original Star Wars trilogy, ended; nor does it change the fact that they did end.

I’ll always the pilot for the sketch with the birds who each speak a single slang catch-phrase. Something about that one really clicked with me.

What a weird collection of non sequiturs...

But this isn’t about “staff needs” at all. This is about servers trying to provide for your needs, as well as the needs of all the other customers. What you are actually saying, whether you realize it or not, is that your needs should be prioritized above those of other paying customers.

“In pretty much any list”? Maybe among the people you associate with, but your anecdotal experiences may just fail to be universal. But, to whatever degree that “top 4" claim holds true, people will tend to favor the works that reflect their own cultural moment over those that reflect past cultural moments.

how far down the list of best TV shows ever do you have to go before you get to even the first pre-1999 entry?

I give that episode no credit for calling back to the “Icelandic childhood” line, because that line worked best as a weird one-off throwaway.

I’ve tried watching it a few times, but I find it intolerably annoying.

This is why I don’t understand so many people’s assumption/insistence that a Black Widow solo film must be an origin story. Her origin story is a cliche. If she is to have a solo movie, it’ll be way more interesting to focus on her role as an emerging leader than as a seductress spy.

It baffles me that continuity comes up in these reviews pretty much every single week. In my experience, most viewers accepted that this show doesn’t play by those rules about 25 years ago.

Except there was no lynch mob. The documentary came out, people wrote some articles and had some conversations, and it mostly died down until as episode aired that addressed the matter in a tone that managed to be neither funny nor insightful.

Judith Hoag. Turco never makes much of an impression; Hoag is a force to be reckoned with.

I loved it as a kid, then didn’t watch it at all in my teen years, and when I revisited it in my twenties, with low expectations, I was really surprised to find that I kinda loved it more as an adult than I had as a child.

As Jeffrey Bell pointed out in an Angel audio commentary, any word before “producer” essentially means “not a.”

Eh, I don’t know that many “real movie critics” ever weighed in much on this one. Reviewers at the time weren’t very kind to it, but what little academic writing I’ve found about it has tended to be more favorable.

TMNT has been rebooted a half-dozen times across various media; they all begin with the Turtles fighting ninja street gangs, and end with the Turtles travelling through space and time.

There is an entire book about it.

I’m assuming the idea is that you report suspicious people, and then they’re either thrown into camps or lined up and shot? But at no point are their freedoms compromised!

It’s almost like cultures don’t go through complete and instantaneous transformations once every ten years, nor do they achieve and maintain complete uniformity.

Seemed to me like the 90s were dominated by 60s nostalgia, although really is was largely more of a general “hippie” nostalgia, so some 70s bled in. Then, a lot of 80s nostalgia hit in the late 90s.