I think there’s a difference between speculating, “Maybe it could mean [CHARACTER] could show up” getting mad when it doesn’t happen.

Obviously Pepp!

Also, I think this is key: In the first movie, Sparrow is written as a relatively-straight scoundrel-with-a-heart-of-gold, and Depp made a lot of acting choices that made the character something unique.  Then the further movies wrote Jack to what Depp was doing, which he then did further, so it became a bit of a…

I think one reason we don’t get as much turnover now is because the film & TV environment now is very different than 10, 15, 20 years ago.  You can go and do other things, including having your own series, without also leaving SNL.  

An argument could be made that they Buried Their Gays, realized they were facing a backlash for doing so, and thus brought Culber back to life though mushroom magic in the next season.

At my son’s high school, apparently the go-to movie for that was Tron: Legacy, which is a piece of information so strange I didn’t know what to do with it.

Well, it also is because a lot of the cultural and stylistic shifts we think of that differentiate the 50s and 60s really came about in the mid-60s. The real hippy/ psychedelic stuff wasn’t until the very end of the decade.

It’s not.  Aubrey Plaza has no fear.  

Having revisited Lost, I can say the sixth season oddly works better in rewatch, because you aren’t focused on trying to figure out the trick it isn’t trying to do. So instead you see how the character stuff is working, especially in the flash-sideways bits, which were bizarrely, intentionally confusing first time…

But it was a big media spectacle outside the school before it centered on Grace at all. Like, why even go there, instead of centering outside of Elena’s studio or apartment? There’s no information that we’re shown that the school is relevant to the murders, certainly not at the beginning. It would make as much sense…

I wish the show had more to say about the media spectacle side of this.

Blue Jasmine is more like a bad movie vaguely saved only because Cate Blanchett does an incredible job. The only Allen movie of the last twenty years that I would elevate to “good” is Midnight in Paris.

You’re talking the characters, not the actors.  I think that was why people are confused.

Honestly, I’d never noticed him before, and he struck me as what would happen if someone drew Chris Pine from memory, but he’s been fantastic here.

Probably because over the years in movies/TV it went from “safe phrase for flirting” to “coded phrase for sex” to “open phrase for sex”.

Well, he killed Holmes in a very handwavy way as well. You can EASILY interpret “The Final Problem” as Holmes crafting an elaborate scheme, including making up a mysterious nemesis who is his equal, as a way to fake his own death so he could get away from Watson.

Until he started showing up awake because his mom and aunt came to the strip club.

“The computer said I failed that test. The computer made an error.” He wasn’t lying.

It’s definitely a movie that ended up being much better than the marketing suggested it was going to be.

The 30 minute short 12:01pm with Kurtwood Smith.