Yeah, but people really like the first (Alien/Predator/Robocop/Terminator/Ghostbusters), so having that built in fanbase is half the battle right there. Doesn’t matter that everything after the first (in some cases, second) movie was lukewarm-to-bad, we’ll get it right this time!

It’s odd how often this franchise gets rebooted/revisited given how (after T2 of course) underwhelming those attempts end up being. Just shows how utterly risk-adverse studio thinking is. Something new or something with proven diminishing returns but existing IP? We’ll take the losing bet on existing IP! (and not…

He's totally in my face!

But is he proactive?

If we’re not making room for hands down the best film in the series, by a large margin, then the machines have already won.

... the Terminator franchise—a massively convoluted sci-fi opus with too many characters, bizarre inter-generational romantic relationships, and more ret-coning and timeline erasing than you can shake a severed android limb at—

You know what helps these issues? Only acknowledging Terminator 1 and 2.

“Now I know why you kawaiiiiiii!!”

“breaks conventions, subverts expectations and has real guts,”

If Ella Fitzgerald had married Allen Funt (look him up if you have to), she would have become Ella Funt.

I hate his entire catalogue!

Steve’s funny, but my favorite Dating Game moment came courtesy of Taylor Negron in the late ‘70's, as like in the 60's with Steve, they’d put a comedian on as one of the bachelors. Taylor was appearing quite regularly on different Barris shows, until the Bachelorette asked him, “Bachelor Number 2, if you were an…

If Deana had married Steve, would she have become Deana Martin-Martin?

Any time those kind of mustaches come up in conversation, I think of that period where Michael Jordan had a Hitler mustache, appeared in ads with it and all, and no one told him to shave the thing off. I figured at the time that that must mean he didn’t have any actual friends - real friends wouldn’t let you do…

Hitler was the no-talent assclown who became famous and started invading countries!

This your grandad?

My grandfather had a “toothbrush” mustache. He grew it some time in the 1920s and then Hitler became a thing. My grandfather’s stance was that “it was his first”, he refused to change it, and had that thing until the day he died in 1995.

My fave is still “Chuck E. Cheese Files for Bank Rupt C.”

Jabba After Dark?

Nah, I’m all for it now. They’re doing weird stuff with their Disney Plus shows, which is fun.

“The first of many planned Star Wars spin-off shows”