Well said, ScottyEnn. We need some new hats. Who’s gonna be our Sci-Fi Sondheim?

Coming to this late, but thank you for guiding me to that Jenkins quote. That final battle made no sense to me, given what had been set up earlier. You don’t bring in David *F-ing* Thewlis as a conniving, manipulative, behind-the-scenes villain, then turn him into yet another CGI Monster at the end. Especially when you…

Not knowing the source material, when Vigilante was introduced, I assumed he was just a lame, wanna-be copycat. Some guy who grew up with Chris, and wanted to be like him, but badly, as comic relief. The way they took him from the kid hiding behind a dumpster to the badass taking down all of Auggie’s thugs in jail was …

That was just the writers room remembering getting stoned and catching “Heavy Metal” on late-night TNT. Then the Disney lawyers told them they couldn’t use anything from the Hanover Fiste segment.

I think they gave Number One a name in the Strange New Worlds preview, but I can’t be bothered to look it up. In the end, I was OK with the Pike Enterprise getting shoehorned into Disco. But when that registration started popping up in that Season One finale, I was so hoping it was a head fake and the Defiant showed up…

As Warren Zevon said after his terminal diagnosis, “Enjoy every sandwich”.

Particularly ironic since Ty and Daniel basically apprenticed with G.R.R. Martin. I guess Bezos’ Baelish never whispered that in his ear.

I had been watching them on my PC. This week, it refused to start, spinning wheel went round and round, so put the Prime app on my phone, and watched it there. Where it does go full-screen, all 6" of it!

That third one is great. Just like people are saying Strange Dogs is setup for if, or when, they get to continue, I consider that episode the warm-up, or under-card, for the Main Event to come.

We know how much they admire Babylon 5, and the feeling is mutual for JMS. This speech had some major Ivanova energy.

Since we’re sliding off topic, and this is 5 days late, so no-one will see it, I had the same experience with “A Fish Called Wanda”. Saw it with a group of friends, most of us British ex-pats, so we were howling throughout, while the rest of the SoCal folks around us wondered why. And Cleese’s speech about what a pain…

For the full effect, you need to say “dreams” at least once.

As an avid Le Carre fan, I bequeth you a star for “”scheming and brandy, etc.”

Completely agree on the absurdities of Asimox’s desire to retcon, and clumsily stitch together, all of his major series. Arthur C. Clarke had the same problem, writing endless sequels to Rama and 2001, out of his idiotic compulsion to explain every bloody thing in the Universe. As “The Leftovers” taught us, Let the Mys…

That was well done. And, as they trotted out, I completely called Ted trying to do the Hoosiers speech, and the immediate rejoinders.

Thank you for the “After Hours: London” shoutout! One of my favorite movies from that weird patch of the 80s. In the fantasy arthouse cinema I program in my head, it always plays in a double feature with “Something Wild”. But I’m certainly hoping Coach Beard runs into a Rosanna Arquette or Melanie Griffith, and not Ray…

Not to mention “Tusk”, during the crucial chase scene. But, yeah, they had to pick their moments, and did it damn well. Just to bookend it, “With or Without You” in the finale was brilliant.

Especially on Christmas, after a few too many nogs, or whatever.

Absolutely this! Plus, it allowed them to sneak in another “Love Actually” reference, the PM having to go down the whole street, at the dodgy end, to find Natalie. Which is why the first kid asked if they were going to sing.

And I loved them revamping the creepy ‘Cue Cards’ scene! That never felt right.

I know this will never be seen, but this aged well! I lasted only only 2-3 episodes into the rebooted Strike Back.
(FYI, I’m revisiting these during my HBOMax rewatch.)