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The first episode of M*A*S*H began with the caption “Korea, 1950 - A hundred years ago” when it aired in the 1970's, so the sense of time was always supposed to be wonky.

Given how most people’s first exposure to Dracula is via endless reimaginings and parodies on film and television, it’s amazing how the original novel still holds up as a tense, thrilling, and creatively constructed story.

Does it still count if it’s a piece of pre-20th Century pop culture, but your only exposure to it is from English translations made AFTER the 20th Century?

The cast was getting a little unwieldy in size, though.

The videos not talking about CGI quality, though, but about using cinematography to make your dinosaurs (whether animatronic, CGI, or otherwise) have the ideal impact on the audience.

I laughed harder at that than I’m proud of.

In my experience, while they might not have the largest vocabulary, nobody swears more frequently or with so much relish as middle schoolers.

Counterpoint: the funniest movie of all time (It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World) is over three hours long.

After Morgoth’s defeat, Sauron openly repented of his evil ways, and was apparently convincing enough that he was allowed to remain alive and free on Middle-Earth. Whether any of that repentance was, at the time, genuine is obviously up for interpretation.

On the other hand, “a film where the primary driver of pretty much all the characters is selfishness” could describe Ocean’s 11, yet that film is charming and fun and has an impeccably likable cast.

Given Ward had a few years on Conroy, I wouldn’t put it was them to do a switcheroo, and have Ward playing the old Bruce Wayne and Conroy the old Dick Grayson. And Mark Hamill the old Commissioner Gordon!

I seriously want a Forever People series.

Surprised the article didn’t mention that the final episode of Season 7 will ALSO be the 100th episode of the show. I figure, once everyone did the math and realized that, they were like, “Shit, that pretty much HAS to be the series finale, doesn’t it?”

At some point during Crisis, I want them to travel to an Earth where everything is animated in the style of Superfriends.

I see what ya did there.

Except Disney doesn’t have a monopoly, or anything close to it.

But all those critiques apply to movies, too.

I think the finale would have gone over better if they hadn’t aired that big clip show special IMMEDIATELY before it. Like, after that, we don’t need ANOTHER clip show.

I don’t know if I’d call it my favorite final season ever, but I feel the need to champion the final season of Seinfeld.

On the other hand, some of the world’s most celebrated novels were written and released in a serial format much like television (Great Expectations, The Brothers Karamazov, Dune).