I tend to agree with you, I liked that each one stretched out. You had that sense of possibility building and then being snatched away. But another important point was that the longest, most frustrating one, the old lady, is the one that actually pays off. You can't express "mind numbingly boring" in a fast-paced…

You're right, it doesn't REALLY matter. As far as timing with Iron Man 3 and Winter Soldier, I seem to recall a TV report in the background of Winter Soldier showing Tony Stark's blown up mansion. So, yeah, pretty much exactly the same time. It makes sense, SHIELD would have otherwise been somewhat involved in the…

I swear to God, until this moment I thought it was "Nacho Grande", which I always thought was hilarious. I'm kinda sad, now.

All together now.

Hey, the Keytar WILL come back around, you'll see!

Yeah, they took care of overplaying that song during the movie itself. Kind of brilliant, actually, it starts off great and catchy, but by the time they're on the pseudo-Ed Sullivan-show the audience is sick to shit of it. They manage to replicate the entire one-hit-wonder experience of the radio and TV driving a good…

Hey, whatever happened to the Oh-Nee-Ders?

Ah, so you're going with the "fixed point in time" wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey theory.
But to your first point, this episode (and others) really go all-in on pre-determination (like the film 12 Monkeys). Cole hasn't been to '87 yet, but the things he WILL do when he returns to '87 have already happened in the show's…

That's true, which is why punk bands either die out or "sell out" or, possibly worst of all, turn into zombie versions of themselves. Once you've been playing for five or six years and find any measure of success you kinda want to learn how to play your damned instrument. It goes back to that very specific slice of…

I will admit that it's way better than I thought it would be. My only issue is the . . . let's say . . . flexible rules for time travel. This episode suggested predetermination, the time travel was set in stone before it happened because the actual facts didn't change from before his time travel to after his time…

"Just put down the lemonade and go. No, you can't take the deviled eggs with you!"

I just remember when those questions would turn into arguments with friends that could sometimes go YEARS without a resolution. See something on TV and say, "hey, this is the girl who was Christian Slater's girlfriend in "Pump Up the Volume". Your friend goes, "No, it isn't." Go back and forth for a while, but since…

Yup, as I read your post I thought, "Wait, wasn't that pretty much the whole premise of the Starman TV show?"

The sweet despair gives our cinnamon buns an extra kick in every existentially crushing bite!

I was kinda half-assed watching the show, so I only got bits and pieces of Ramse's explanation of Atari, not much more than "It was a game I played when I was a kid." So I spent the rest of the episode thinking that he was talking about the Atari video game system and that had something to do with being totally…

I, too, was amazed that we actually saw the kids. I figured it was going to be a running gag that the children are just never, ever on screen. They could've done it, too, just skip seeing the kids at the start and perpetually have Rachel Dratch run in with status updates.

It's funny you say that, "Spy Game" was the movie that really turned me off of Tony Scott. It wasn't bad it was just overbearing. Two really talented and charismatic leads and their performances are buried in an avalanche of stylistic overkill. It's like getting a nice steak and drowning it in ketchup. Sure, it's…

It's the reason why, in Star Trek VI, Klingon blood looks like Pepto Bismol.

That's one of those weird PG-13 rules that, once you notice it, you can never stop noticing it. Gunshots, stabbings, pretty much all violence is completely bloodless. (There can be a blood-stain, but not liquid blood). If you remember blood then that's your brain filling in the blanks. It's weird how that works.…

I remember something about that, too, that the "blaster bolts" are actually projectiles surrounded by some sort of plasma something-something magnets.
Star Wars works because those movies just didn't give a shit about the science. How stuff worked was never really a plot point, it was never explained, there was no…