Guys for fucks sake, the article you link to about Pink’s comments on Snooki does not contain any fucking mention of Snooki. Do you not think that might be the main (perhaps only) reason any of your readers would click on that link? To see what she said about Snooki?

Er, he lifted some imagery and some formal/stylistic techniques from Ford but he didn’t really take his storytelling from there at all.

I think that the Mandalorian is more about classic samurai movies than the classic westerns that stole from them, no?

It’s more Lone Wolf And Cub than anything, even if Mando’s voice is based on the original Boba voice which is clearly a Clint Eastwood impersonation.

I hated this guy ever since I stumbled across a blog post about how people who like horror movies are assholes. I guess it was only a matter of time before he gave me a reason to hate him that was actually about important things.

It may be worth shifting your thinking: there’s nothing to get. The lack of context, and the way it doesn’t teach you how to play by giving you some early wins is a design choice to encourage you to make the experience your own.

I have not been much of a gamer since the 2000s, and I am not a fantasy fan, and yet I fell in love with this.

Remember when blockbuster content didn’t make you tired?

What ire? Who’s irate? I’m not, I thought we were having a discussion, I can’t see anything in what I wrote that might indicate I’m doimg anything more than participating in a conversation wherein we have conflicting viewpoints. I wasn’t being obnoxious, I wasn’t considering any wider “controversy”, I was just saying:…

I guess I’m just really struggling with the suggestion that the people who rejected the 2003 film in 2003 were thinking very much about Lou Ferrigno at all. That just doesn’t seem to gel with my recollection of 2003 or the mood surrounding the film.

That... doesn’t sound like a very good idea.  Sorry.

Okay but what the fuck is the difference between movies and TV at this point

Wait, you think you know Liam Neeson’s wife’s objections to him playing Bond than Liam Neeson does?

I think to be totally fair, there absolutely is a cult for this movie.  Perhaps not an organised fandom, but I think it’s fairly demonstrable that there’s a collective of people who appreciate the film specifically for its eccentricity rather than despite them.  In fact I think the majority of the people who like the…

My memory was simply that there wasn’t enough action, and the action that was there seemed ancillary to the plot, and the most impressive parts of the action were already included in the trailer. I also seem to recall an overall sense that when the trailers did emphasise the big histrionic psychodrama, and the grand…

Yes, I don’t unequivocally agree with Achebe’s views on all aspects of Heart Of Darkness, but the bigger takeaway here is that the curation of that work in that way framed your reading of Heart Of Darkness as a live, ongoing conversation between different perspectives, meaning that you were able to appreciate it…

I’m quite puzzled to learn that the editorial changes here are based in part on the editorial view of other literature. It’s the reference to Matilda no longer liking Joseph Conrad that is a little tough for me to parse.

This is itself PR though, which your article is helping with.

I didn't say it was worse, I was in fact trying to place it in a comparable context to the one you just did.  If anything I was arguing for a small shred of empathy for Cleese: he was in his bubble talking to his people, same as us.

Literally scroll up back to your first comment in this thread.  Have a look at which part of the article you quoted.  Are you fucking around?

What the fuck are you talking about? Your first post literally quotes Colin Mochrie referring to his first Whose Line episode, which definitely aired in 1991. In that same post you claim the AV Club made some non-descript ‘error’ by failing to refer to episodes before Colin Mochrie was on the show?