Oh yeah, to be clear my criticism is not directed at Flanagan. I support his “back to the basic idea of adapting a thing” approach. It’s just kinda crazy that it has to be suggested. 

The first scene would be a black screen and the words, ‘The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed’ would come up in silence, and you’d hear the wind, and we’d gradually fade up to this Lawrence of Arabia-esque landscape with a silhouette in the distance just making his way across the hardpan.…

Really had my hopes up for that new adaptation of The Stand, but that shit the bed pretty hard and pretty early; nothing at all to do with the casting, but the story structure, the abandoned main characters, and the woeful misinterpretation of the Vegas society did it in for me. Also the weird decision to deify the US…

Please, please let this happen

it’s hard not to imagine the Dark Tower brand might just be permanently tainted at this point, especially because any sufficiently expansive version of the books would, by necessity, also have to be pretty damn expensive.

I loved Hannibal, but I’m not convinced that more of it would really be a good thing. Even in the time it had, the show felt like it was bumping up against the limits of the interesting things it could do with the core relationship. At some point, the audience gets that Graham and Lecter are both drawn to each other,…

What kind of world do we live in where someone like Jerry Lee Lewis can be taken from us so soon, yet Matthew Perry continues to walk around in this world?

It’s OK, I got a look at him - he’s not that handsome.

Geez, his forehead’s not that big, is it?

If it’s only 5 years before Rogue One, Jyn Urso has already been raised and abandoned by Sol. She’s out there doing her thing.

I’m pretty sure Cassian didn’t say a word for the whole first half of the episode, but it’s still all on Luna’s face.

The scene between Saw and Luthen was also sobering from a real-world perspective, especially when the former started listing off the factions he considered “lost” and stoked his own claims of clarity. 

I love that Syril’s superpower is annoying the hell out of all the wrong people.

“the emperor of something stupid”

Reckon they’ll go GoT/LOTR prequel direction - make trilogy of films set hundreds of years before all the Star Wars movies - with the final twist being that the hero turns out to be the emperor of something stupid. 

Agreed! It also has possibly my favorite Homer exchange in the history of the show: the shopkeeper scene.

I honestly gave up on the list when I saw “Clown Without Pity” wasn’t in the top 20. Hell, I think it’s top 5

Clown without Pity should be higher purely for the Homer line “Marge, the dolls trying to kill me and the toaster’s been laughing at me”.

Yeah, the 4:3 was another thing that made me think this was going to turn into some kind of horror episode. I honestly first thought it was something Hulu was doing.

That was a great lowkey episode. Lottie’s smile at the end was everything.