Seeing that show as a child must have left some scars on anyone of a certain age. It’s such bizarre body horror, so weird and uncomfortable, even as a like, 4 year old, I knew I was seeing something really fucking messed up.

God, that Monster Hunter pic annoys me. It’s clearly from late in production, special effects have been applied to the frame. Maybe not final effects, sure, but… the glowing swords don’t throw any light on anything in the frame. I mean, shit, if you know that the swords are supposed to glow, you should be lighting for…

A robot rolling on ecstasy, a touching rendition of “Pure Imagination”, repressed memories accessed by prolonged orgasms, and a cosmic baby being punched back into the hole from which it came. Oh, and a sentient street becoming a van through the power of love. In any other show, that’d be a season of gags, here it’s…

I mean, you can backlight an e-ink display, it’s just not necessary for visibility.

“What in the Doris Day Ikea Fuck?!” is one of the best lines of dialogue ever uttered.

An e-ink display still has a key advantage: no backlight. That’s most of the power consumption in an LCD- actually setting a pixel by adjusting a crystal is relatively low power draw.

Oh, but the utter banality of evil in the OT is what really makes the setting come alive. The Empire can blow up planets, but they can’t control the micro-scale stuff. They can’t adapt to the Rebellion. They can’t bring Bespin in line without cutting a deal. They can’t stomp out criminal overlords like Jabba the Hutt-…

Yeah, but then Twister 3 is going to completely alienate the die hard fans, and before you know it, you’re getting into Twister v. Typhoon, and then a whole bunch of prequels-but-not-but-actually-yes where we meet a dust devil that may or may not be a twister until the second movie, when we decide it actually is.

Crime and mystery stories are also genre, which means Kiss Kiss Bang Bang should be on the list too. Kilmer is a delight in that.

I mean, like I said, it bothered me a little. Just a little! It wasn’t especially troubling, until new context was added. What’s especially troubling is how Ellis’s behavior reflects that paradigm in real life.

I mean, I love Transmetropolitan, but it’s pretty clear in that story what Ellis’s attitudes towards male/female mentorship are. (The relationship with the filthy assistants always bothered me a little, and now it bothers me a lot)

When we get a Doom Patrol / Legends of Tomorrow crossover, I can finally be happy.

This is because the anglophone world doesn’t understand how to drink bergamot tea. You need to add a splash of rosewater (or use rosewater sugar cubes).

Oh shit, I forgot I had that one. I had a lot of Go-Bots crap because y’know, the Transformers were more expensive.

> Who gets the friend group?

Definitely connect with the Book of the Dead, and personally what I want most is that perfectly off-kilter tone of EDII: yes, it’s scary, but it’s also just weird. The titular evil doesn’t just want to destroy you, it wants to play with you. The humor supports the menace because it’s all just toying with you.

> Do you pay for netflix? cable?

All I’m saying is its an overwhelming quantity of things. So much that it doesn’t sound like fun at all, and instead sounds difficult to keep track of. I could just donate to good causes and buy the games I want when I want them, which seems much much easier.

I mean, I have been.

Wouldn’t I be doing a better thing if I just donated money?