I guess that's some reasoning, but it seems a little unfair to the producers to assume so little of them! I guess mainly I was thrown by your phrasing - I would've said "I hope this has some historical basis" rather than "I hope this was in the book", since that's what you really meant!

I think when we saw that lens flare in the Al-Lee flashback, we all knew Bad Robot was involved, yeah?

The Butterfly Effect isn't exactly proven science, just a philosophy of time travel. My attitude is actually that there would be a mix of "butterfly effect" and "convergence". Minor actions often DON'T have an effect. If you bump into that guy on the street, he'll be 10 seconds later to work, maybe he walks in front…

Is that where Pennywise comes from?

So, if King wrote it, it's totally legitimate, but if it came from TV writers, it's a cheap stunt? What does the author have to do with it?

I had no objection at all to rewatching this yet again two months after the last time, so here's another comment about that Ten-Forward scene: Colm Meaney as usual totally kills it. His description of having to kill someone made me cry a little. Some of the horror actually comes the fact that they weren't just shot or…

I just want to point how great the LIGHTING complements that singing scene. Indirectly lit Red Alert. A pulsing, somber red-orange light, like the fires of a battle dying down behind them.

So glad I rewatched this episode again. Somehow missed all this great banter the first time through these threads…

At first I thought I had general anxiety (well, I do, but this even moreso), then I realized as much as I fear having to have a face to face conversation with someone, it really is even more terrifying not being able to see someone's face when you're talking to them. You could say something criminally stupid and…

Our first computer in 1995 had a 56k modem. It took like 30 seconds to connect maybe? Remember, this computer is brand new, not average.

Lucky you didn't then!

Haha, totally thought that too. I would've enjoyed a constant vicious cycle of refreshment leading them to think there was a skyrocketing number of people being directed to the site.

6 years is pretty solid, right?

Reba was pretty great with the glaring exception of her inexplicable and irritating desire to jump Eddie's bones.

"the Huang"? You mean Evan? I'm okay with one of them being a computer whiz. Maybe they had one of those newfangled contraptions at his school.

Interesting, I'd forgotten that. Did I also forget the dial-up noise (honestly that's what I wanted most of all), or can I still hope for that in a later episode sometime?

I love this site. Exactly what a 90s cop notice would look like haha.

I think Trent just earned his place as Eddie's best man. What a champ!

I'm so glad I compared Honey and Marvin to Trophy Wife last week (by which I mean 15 minutes ago on last week's review), and now here's Bert again! Everyone loves Bert!

@avclub-60d2f1e9a5d618bdc95426f85848c724:disqus Either way, you don't get many opportunities for a 90s joke about dial-up modem screeching noises and slow connections. I was grinning in anticipation for my ears to encounter those beautifully discordant tones once again, as in the days of yore, but alas! Passing up…