Wife and I stopped on a patio for a nice little Queso fundido and a margarita yesterday and the server said he was dreading the afternoon because Sunday’s have become the worst day for customer behavior. We commiserated for a few minutes and landed on a suspicion that people need to relearn civility after locking…

Always be kind to your deli attendant

Fair enough, though I’d still count that as Hollywood not realizing his potential, though.

It was reportedly Quan himself who decided to step away from acting due to getting no offers besides the same stereotypical geeky Asians. After seeing Crazy Rich Asians, he decided to get back in the game as there’s now clearly more stuff available.

I think there was enough set up for his character from ToD to easily sell that Short Round grew up to be a bad ass, because he was a bad ass as a kid. His character was just as responsible for saving those kids as Indy was. First time we see him, he’s driving, so maybe making the adult version of him a top shelf…

I think given how long it’s been since we’ve last seen the character, there would be plenty of room for him to ‘reinvent’ Short Round in some capacity and let his natural charm serve as the obvious link. If not for the fact that everyone would know it’s him, I’d almost even have him running around using another name…

The closest thing I had to a serious complaint about Everything Everywhere All at Once was how angry it made me that Hollywood has slept on Ke Huy Quan all these years.

I see what you’re saying and I agree he has serious range, but I’d be curious to see how Ke Huy Quan would play the character now that we haven’t seen him in over 30 years. What was Short Round doing all those years? What’s he like as an adult? I think there is a lot there to mine for stories.

After seeing him in Everything Everywhere All At Once, bringing him back as Short Round would be a disservice. The dude has serious range—I don’t want him to typecast himself into oblivion again.

I think instead continuing the Indy series, the next Indiana Jones movie should just have a car screech to a halt right in front of Indy and we see Ke Huy Quan now playing an adult Short Round say, “hop in Dr Jones, we going for a ride” and have Short Round be the future star of the franchise. His character is built…

Well, Hedley Lamarr did lump in Methodists with rustlers, cut-throats, murderers, thugs, nitwits, et. al.

Only because Bobcat doesn’t do his old shtick anymore, though.

“Blazing Saddles got away with some stuff that’s problematic by today’s standards.”

I honestly cannot comprehend how the team making SNW is the same team that is creating Discovry and Picard. I only hope that they see how much love this newest installment is getting and change course with the other shows. 

Yeah, I remember the original crew doing the space version of riding off into the sunset and then the next movie was the TNG folks fighting the Borg and traveling back in time to make sure the first warp flight happened.

Oh my!

Star Trek never really did that, though. Fans? Sure. But the shows and movies? Kirk and Picard didn’t really compete... Picard helped Kirk realize that he was living in a meaningless fantasy and then they cooperated. Picard and Sisko had a heated conversation because, you know, Picard as Locutus killed Ben’s wife and…

You might say it would have been The Best of Both Worlds. 

They touch on Spock’s necessity in the far future, but I wonder too if Kirk’s belief that there is no no-win-scenario also gets destroyed in this timeline and helps darken the future path?

Star Trek: Generations? Never heard of it? I also may have blocked it out of my head.