The EU stuff was WILDLY uneven. The Zahn books were okay - they weren’t brilliant science fiction but they introduced a few interesting concepts and characters - most notably Thrawn, who’s been rolled back into the main universe.

Then there was a lot of absolute trash. For all the shit people give movies like Solo for…

I liked the *idea* of Canto Bight - that there’re profiteers who really just don’t care who’s in charge as long as they keep making money - and adding a class dynamic to the SW universe (which could help reconcile why that even in the glorious republic there’s still so many intergalactic crime syndicates, slavers,…

I feel like they had a rough outline of a plan but various upheavals - Trevorrow leaving, Fisher sadly passing - threw that plan out the window and we got stuck with Rey Palpatine.

The great thing that worked well about the original trilogy was that they were still essentially stories, not mysteries. We didn’t end A…

You mean aside from the fact that Fallon said that he did?

Certainly it got a lot of press of the “maybe he can be presidential/a regular guy/in touch with the people/serious about this and not just a complete narcisstic egomaniac” variety immediately afterwards.

Let us never forget that Fallon was the first mainstream host to book Trump in 2016, playfully tousled his hair, and treated him like something other than a bad punchline to a joke nobody wanted to hear.  While I know he’s expressed regrets at helping legitimize the candidacy, a lot of other people regret that he did…

What’s hilarious is just the other day I actually saw the SVU episode he references - and his impression is ridiculously accurate. No comedic liberties, no exaggeration, he just basically just points out the utter absurdity underlying a very mundane scene.

I really hope his sobriety sticks. He’s a rare talent.

Wait, Mulaney was addicted?

Oh I get it.

You mean like when someone drinks too much? Or snorts cocaine? Or bets the house on the ponies? Or when someone smokes too many cigarettes? Or like when someone shops too much with credit cards? Or like when someone plays too many scratchy lotteries? Or like when someone eats…

I thought “Fist of the North Star” was gory, but...man. Yeah.

The comics never shied away from people repeatedly getting bloodily torn apart but there’s definitely something more visceral about seeing it animated. (which I suppose makes sense!)

“Are you boys cooking in there?”
“No!”
“Are you building an interocitor?”
“NO!”

Whenever the smoke alarm goes off when I’m cooking, my wife has learned to ask if I’m building an interocitor.

That was an odd episode.

That bothered me a LOT. My dad harvested maple sap for decades and it’s ridiculously specific when you can do it - there’s a window when it’s below freezing at night but above freezing during the day, and you can’t do it once the trees start to bud because the sugar content goes off - so the idea that the heiress to a…

I have so many questions about the town of Riverdale.

Where is it, that it can be a quick bop to New York for dinner? And yet have an entirely maple-based economy without evidence of being commuter-town? An economy that can apparently support jewelry boutiques and high-end hotels? How did they survive the collapse of…

Every CEC I have ever been to - and that’s a depressingly non-zero number - had a definite air of “the kids aren’t going to notice, so we don’t give a fuck” about it. The one nearest my home featured a Chuck E animatronic missing an entire ear, a Munch that just straight-up didn’t work and sat there, motionless, while…

Every adult member of my family hated the place. MY sister-in-law hated it AND has a phobia of people in animal costumes, so it was a double whammy. But the lights, the noise, the mobs of shrieking children, the sub-frozen-pizza-quality pizza...anyone with a fully developed nervous system would leave there exhausted…

Maaaaan. I follow her on Instagram and she made a post of her in full makeup with the caption of “I can’t wait for you to meet Dottie” or something like that, and then I saw the show and I still simply failed to put those things together - the photo was in color, the episode in bw, which probably addled me a bit - and…

Lawless has also had a much better post-Hercuverse career.

Lucy was on BSG for frak’s sake, and Parks and Rec!

And she got the great line “Xena needs xex!” in a Simpsons halloween special. Sorbo never did anything approaching that.

I haven’t spent a lot of time watching old films of Charles from the 80's but...was he really as stooped-over as O’Connor played him? I mean he always looks like he’s auditioning for Eeyore or trying to work out a kink in his neck.

I couldn’t tell, because the photos on the mantel went by too quick and the background was too blurred for me to be sure, but was it implied that Sam eventually got together with Eileen? I was fuzzy on what happened to the alternate-universe folks that Chuck snapped after Jack righted things. And thanks to the…

Yeah, I was just about to say that they pretty much walked back a lot of “The Host” as soon as DS9 aired. Also the Trill of “The Host” were, if I remember correctly, kinda creepy and offputting.

I get the impression that they’ve explored a lot of other alternatives, but when all the power sources for most of your infrastrucure goes “boom” one day, even if you’ve got backup ideas, you’re in for a real bad time. When the stuff that powers everything from starships to communication spontaneously explodes, it’s…