That green though.

We need more green

Pretty sure you’re thinking of Darth Vader.

The Horror at 37,000 Feet is peak Shatner. 1973.

Shilling, you luddite, socialist, capitalist baiting yout! You conveniently left out Shatner’s crowning achievement as an actor. He was T.J. Hooker !

Time will be kind to BR2049.

Maybe we should start by defining “American”. Is a Toyota Tundra built in Texas American? How about a Ford Fiesta built in Mexico?

I couldn’t quite escape the yolk of my oppressor’s

I’m going to have to ask that the Marxman be renamed the Marxperson. We really need to be gender-neutral here, as all genders are trapped under the oppressive boot of capitalism 

I had a friend who actually liked that about the film. He didn’t know SF, but he figured that a civilization 10,000 years in the future was bound to be a little weird so he just sort of went with the flow. Sort of like strange gadgets and space travel.

I always think about the SF writer Norman Spinrad’s review of Lynch’s Dune, in which he observed that Lynch’s biggest mistake was diving deep into the lore at the start of the movie and burying the audience in information they had no context for. Because Dune, at heart, is a very simple story. It’s about a young man…

Awww no thanks .

He's identifying the client's class in the hierarchy.

Most Dad rock was edgy when those guys were younger. Just like the edgy dudes now will be pudgy dads eventually.

And then just cancel all the football and make it all a huge GWAR show.

GWAR is the only band that should ever be booked for Superbowl halftime shows.

“[I]t’s not the fault of Marvel,” Skarsgård said. “It’s the fault of an idea about how the economical systems of the world should work. It’s all fiction. But it’s the fiction that we had for the last couple of decades, [and it] has led to this.”

It honestly seems like many fans of arthouse cinema are ultimately upset that what they like isn’t more popular. Unfortunately, that’s the most intractable part of the whole equation. Changing people’s taste is a massive, generational endeavor. But I think that’s why directors like Denis Villeneuve are so important:…

I cannot tell you how refreshing it was to have these stories almost all told without any tie-ins, cameos from other characters we know, or a new addition to an existing story. They just made some Star Wars. Every episode can just be judged on its own merit and not how it ties into the cinematic universe or the canon.…

Did a lot of these feel like pilots to anyone else? Off the top of my head, “The Twins”, “Lop and Ocho”, and “The Ninth Jedi” each feel like they set up a legitimate series (that I would be deeply interested in). “Lop” and “Ninth” definitely seem the most grounded too, like they could easily be canonized.