I really doubt it. He’s a true believer and son of a true believer; his mom was Reagan’s 1st EPA director and she was so far beyond the pale that she was quickly forced to resign and Reagan had to replace her with the more moderate original (Nixon appointed) EPA director.

Trump and congressional Republicans have a deal: they’ll overlook his massive corruption and incompetence (and in fact pretend the reverse is true) if he signs whatever they can get passed.

Trump and evangelicals have an implicit deal: they’ll overlook his disgusting and obviously un-Christian lifestyle (and in fact…

He’s nominally a Presbyterian, but when a couple of Presbyterian ministers met with him in Trump Tower he had to ask them if they were Christians or what after he bragged to them about how well he did with evangelicals and they politely explained that Presbys aren’t evangelicals.

I love the original Delia Derbyshire version of the Doctor Who theme, but not a fan of most of the later versions. The Delaware version is pretty obnoxious. The 80s versions sometimes got a bit too 80s and their enjoyment is predicated on how much you love Yamaha synths.

The credits were edited to U2's “Beautiful Day”, which is what Berman and Braga wanted, but knew they’d never get. That pile of crap we got was what the studio licensed for them. Dennis McCarthy wrote “Archer’s Theme” as the credit theme, but no one but him actually wanted it. The idea that the opening credits should…

I’ve watched the first two seasons on Hulu (behind on everything because I’ve not had cable for years) recently. It’s a really funny and smart show a lot of the time, but I absolutely see how it breeds these horrible fans. Not an original thought here, but they seem to think, well, “Rick is a smart asshole. Hey, I’m…

I thought the name was just a weird coincidence and bad romanization of 松田 (Matsuda, the family name of the founder), but I just checked their wikipedia page and it’s a deliberate pun on the family name and the god.

I’ve loved pretty much every Ghibli movie I’ve seen except Nausicaa, which I bailed on halfway through. I found it confusing and dull, I think because they were trying to compress too much manga plotline into one movie.

I suspect Totoro, Ponyo, and Kiki would be great choices for getting a kid into anime (my 5yo…

It was a weird choice to throw in to pad the Robotech story out to animated syndication length. It was cancelled in Japan! The “finale” was a hastily written wrap up after they found out they were only getting 23 episodes instead of 36 like Macross or 35 like Orguss (which I’ve never seen; I have subbed DVDs of SDF:…

It is but Nintendo itself still sells refurbished ones, and you can find new (maybe?), used, and refurbished ones on the internet and at places like GameStop. I’ve debated picking one up and transferring all my Wii stuff as the prices drop now that Switch availability has increased.

You can apparently get extension cables pretty cheap. It’s the same connector as the NES Mini and the Wii Classic Controller.

They seem to have caught up on stock of the regular consoles at least. I was in Target yesterday and they had 7 Switches, maybe 10 3DS XLs, a dozen 2DS XLs, and a couple leftover non-hinged 2DSs.

Whitney is yet another.

I’m going to guess that in the end people will refer to it as DIS, similar to Voyager which isn’t called STV but VOY and Enterprise isn’t STE but ENT.

Football game broadcast nationwide ran over and instead of trimming 60 Minutes (the bits I saw could have all been cut; McCain interview and Oprah and Frank Luntz doing a panel with pro-/anti- Trump voters) or doing less commercials to get back on track (hahahahahahaha) the show started at 8:48 instead of 8:30. If you…

In the US it’s a CBS All Access exclusive except for the first episode. For most of the rest of the world it’s Netflix exclusive. CBS wants to use this show to get people to sign up for All Access so they’re making it the only legal way to watch it.

I only saw the first episode over the air on CBS and wasn’t a fan either. Maybe the 2nd half redeems it a bit or after seeing the whole season (don’t know how though; not paying for CBS All Access) it’ll retroactively improve once I have the gestalt. I’m hoping my first impression is bad, and given that pretty much…

Yes, but when TNG first aired people did say things like “And it’s not really Star Trek as I know it, as I want it to be.” A lot. A lot. Seriously, that’s pretty much all people had to say about it the first season. People didn’t really calm down and accept it on its own terms until some time into the third season.

McCoy wasn’t even cast at the beginning (although he was in the first episode that aired). The network didn’t want to hire De Kelley for some reason, so they had a couple different doctors before the production staff won. And even then he only had like an 8 episode guarantee for S1. It wasn’t until S2 that he got…

What are you counting as TOS’s pilot? The episode NBC chose to show as the pilot was “The Man Trap”, which was pretty so-so and the 5th episode shot. “The Cage” didn’t air until 1988 (although we got most of it in “The Menagarie”). The 2nd episode filmed as a pilot was “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, which had a great…