Because it's FUNNY how ubiquitous it became despite having no basis in science.

Or it's a derivative part. But it's not that much different than Dreyfusses' role

Huh, I don't really know many of those but for my early 2000s we had the scifi channel's miniseries like Taken and those Hercules and Merlin series that were stretched to three hours.

Agreed.

This show has been like the TV equivalent of reading a great classic book your teacher recommended you for summer reading. My one issue is it goes by so fast I have trouble separating out my favorite moments and episodes.

Question, have you seen Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind? Do you think her reaction is different compared to his…?

I liked how low key it was, like "you know that guy who seems like a dweeb at school and is only around to explain science? yep, watches horror movies with his gf"

This is really interesting, because I've always been on good terms with my sister and I find it hard to imagine what it's like to be so annoyed with your sibling you snipe at each other…

I've grown tired of men in films mansplaining to "good girls" that they aren't really that shallow and stuck up.

Someone I know pointed out that most Americans literally don't learn anything about fascism apart from the "The Nazis did it"

No, Trump isn't stupid. He just doesn't care.http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/…

I tried to stay up and watch it, but I kept drifting out whenever he moved onto the next Charles Lindbergh-esque America First point.

Yeah, what I meant

which is the thing he captures, most guys who end up using or hurting people are able to get away with being half charming, enough so that, like Nancy, they're forgiven when they should really be held accountable…

oh! He's the Government guy…

That reminds me of a guy who used to do scientific examination of fringe, and regularly listed why the trope was so weird. http://www.politedissent.co…

Steve's whole stick is very much the kind "playful scamp" that many young men envy. To see it go sour is to expose what we are really envying is not something altogether healthy to be…

Seconding that one, changed my whole perspective on WHY girls were bullied and why they seem to defend not being the "stuck up" one…

In Stand By Me, Ace and his friends are like the violence and consequences of the adult world entering and upending the childrens' one.

I too felt sad that Barb was going that way, look at how she tries to be cool and cuts herself leading to the blood the monster smells.