The main reason that occurs to me is that today’s media marketplace just isn’t as friendly to completely new characters/properties as to established ones - even “re-inventions” of established one. Making the characters gay after the fact is definitely not ideal, but it’s better than not being able to make room for any…

The underside of the rim of the head is my trigger.

Fraternal twins are formed from separate eggs, but typically are the result of the same act of conception. I mean, I agree that according to the standard definition of the word “twins,” based on their being born simultaneously, the word does apply here. I guess I actually meant, “Shouldn’t we revise the definition of…

I really don’t see how the word “twins” applies here. These are just siblings who happen to have the same birth date.

Also worth pointing out that the first season’s intended finale was aired at the top of the season, so if one is watching online, one should remember to watch that episode in its correct place.

I was a boy who liked acting and gave up on it for the exact same reason.

I had the same thought. Itchy and Scratchy are basically genderless characters (outside of the episode where they were turned into girls, an episode which acknowledged that they hadn’t really been “boys” before), and the joke of them dancing together isn’t about sexuality, it’s about the fact that watching cartoon…

Adults who enjoyed the series as children, and now assume that the reboot is something they can enjoy with their own children, at a guess.

I cannot believe I made that mistake. I... I have multiple copies of both movies... I’ve read Tim Lucas’s Bava book cover to cover multiple times... I... This is the worst day of my life.

Also, when I saw someone had replied and quoted just that portion of my comment, I expected it to be somebody saying, “There is no…

I’m a much bigger fan of Bava than - well, than any of the others, but particularly more than Martino and Fulci. His visuals are of course stunning, but his sense of ironic humor brings something too many of these films lack for my tastes.

Gonzo is clearly the one who should play Gatsby.

I have a friend at Capitol Records, and her day has been complicated by the fact that they didn’t actually bother to license it.

This has also caused issues for a friend of mine who works at Capitol Records, because - big shocker - these asshats didn’t bother to get the song cleared before airing it.

It’s a passably entertaining, largely very “safe” take on Star Wars. I generally enjoy it, but absolutely cannot understand what makes some people say that they love it. Ultimately, to me, there doesn’t seem to be much there there.

Ah! But Luke Skywalker losing his hand was used to represent his becoming more like his corrupted father, was it not?

And yet you left out a viable semicolon from this comment!

I’m sure I’m biased as a result of having grown up with this movie since I was a very small child, but I love the ending, not least of all because it denies the audience closure and does not respect in the least any affection they might have formed for the characters.

I actually find the “disconnected” statement odd. As a lifelong horror fan, I find the slasher subset of the genre appealing precisely because I am engaged, I care about the victims and feel fear and pain with them. If I’m not connected, then the movie has failed me. It’s a genre that, at its best, is deeply rooted in…

I am friends with a nurse at that hospital who has informed me that Vasquez died of a different respiratory issue, and did not have COVID.

I’m definitely not trying to downplay the horror this disease has wrought and continues to work. It’s goddamned awful. But this specific case seems to be a different awful thing.

This has never struck me as a plot hole. How clear is your memory going to be of the face of someone you briefly knew thirty years ago? And what normal human brain is even going to conceive of some connection between this long-past figure and your teenage son, when he EVENTUALLY begins to resemble him?