I mean, if it had the pep of Brisco County Jr, I’d be incredibly down. 

Why does this clip give me “90s syndicated action show” energy? But like, with less pep on the script than those usually had.

I think it’s that austerity which bothers me. The Fremen live austere lives, but everyone else comes from a baroque galactic society that operates with no consideration for, well, anyone or anything. Their outposts on Arrakis should, to my mind, reflect their hubris. The galactic citizens are not austere, or subtle,…

For all its faults, the art direction in Lynch’s Dune was top notch. The right level of fever dream.

> Every inch of Dune: Part Two is dripping with style

Now I just want to re-read Grunts.

Heh. Exactly.

I spent more time than I should have reading the store page and trying to divine if this was a parody or sincere, and then I realized: it doesn’t fucking matter, because the Jones vortex is just meaningless nonsense, but like, not in a fun dadaist way.

Hey jingety jing, it’s Dominic the Italian Christmas Donkey

> women way out of their league

Remember that Tesla’s main profits come from trading carbon offsets: instead of reducing CO2, Tesla uses the fact that they’re making electric cars to sell other companies the right to produce more CO2. In net, Tesla is increasing atmospheric CO2.

“Thus, I’ve invented the least sexy sofa, one you can definitely not bone in. No, stop boning it it. STOP. WHY ARE YOU RUINING MY COUCH.” - Lord Chesterfield

Who do you think played the Demogorgon?

I’d argue it’s improved. The Interdimensional Cable episodes were terrible.

King of Killers

The Barbie film is a resounding rejection of Nietzsche. At the start of the film, the Barbies are the Uberfrau, each of them enacting their will-to-power. While the Kens represent an underclass, they’re not explicitly oppressed by their Barbies, but by the subservient morality that stands in contrast to the master…

Variety reports that Tom Cruise actually entreated SAG-AFTRA “to allow movie stars to continue promoting their new films, given the challenging theatrical landscape.” When SAG-AFTRA reportedly counted by asking Cruise to join the picket lines and come out publicly in support of the labor action, he was “noncommittal.”…

Don’t forget “grabbing an oil tanker to use as a baseball bat to slam a kaiju”. Also, mad props to Idris Elba for making “Today, we are cancelling the apocalypse!” sound like an actually badass line and not the absolute high camp it actually is.

There’s definitely a sense of it being a wink and a nod, as if a lot of the behind the camera creatives are afraid of taking the whole thing too seriously. And the storytelling is rushed, because it’s definitely built for short-attention-span theater. Which hey, the pace of ClassicWho could get punishing at times, so…

I was never the biggest fan of RTD’s run (not that I loved Moffat or Chibnall either*), so while I’m not overjoyed that he’s back, I do have to say: the costuming is on point.