Agreed - it could have been (and all the show needed it to be) just a pure narrative exposition dump paired with a winking cameo. 

Gen Z-ers read the AV Club? I always assumed we were all a mix of bitter Gen X and Old Millenials, nostalgic for the old Disqus days.

I have a life/family/career/outdoor hobbies and only have time for about one or two episodes for TV a week.

No ur dum! me coment so good!

Eric André in a horror anthology? Ok, ok, I’m intrigued.

“The final super-predator showdown feels less like an obstacle to the characters’ escape than it does to the audience’s.”

Dinosaurs are birds’ decedents, however.

No you idiot they fell into a big hole and now live in the center of the hollow earth. Don’t you know anything? 

I do, and I will!

I don’t know if that’s true. Most of the zoomers I know (I have dozens of young cousins and work with college-age interns) know a mediocre cash-in movie from a genuinely good one.

Meanwhile in the original JP, even minor/supporting characters are still well-remembered and quoted today, nearly 30 years later.

I first saw the original in ‘93 at a drive-in movie theater in Nebraska (back when drive-ins were fairly commonplace and played new releases).

F Scott Fitzgerald: “The American dream is hollow. It is built on dishonest mythologizing, careless wealth-hoarding, blindly hedonist parties, deadly nihilism... and at root, a deep sense of loneliness.”

Season 1 and 2 were some of my favorite seasons of TV ever.

I have several friends who work in the AI-generated content industry - far more notable “news” sites are using it than you’d expect!

Come on let’s morb again! Like we did last summer!
Yeah let’s morb again - like we did last year!
Do you remember when things were really morbin’?
Yeah, let’s morb again, morbin’ time is here

that and whatever the hell Vince Vaughan was doing. 

I believe what he’s saying is that Baltimore does not have enough dragons to be appealing to today’s audiences. 

Um, how could you forget Roland Emmerich’s (Moonfall, Day After Tomorrow) iconic, moving Stonewall documentary?

Ezra “The Waikiki Stranger” Miller