It’s a shame that the superhero boom hasn’t been kind to it either. It’s a great show, right at the intersection of Rick & Morty and Bojack Horseman, but it’s hobbled by only releasing a half-season what feels like every 17 years. Season 1 is rough going sometimes too, and it’s been around so long some jokes don't…

I’m in absolute agreement here. I always get an initial look of misapprehension when I tell people that ‘Eternal Sunshine...’ is one of my favourite sci-fi films because the term has become synonymous with stories about galaxy-ending threats.

Yeah, I disagree with that too. I became really invested in characters from Community and Bojack Horseman to name but two. I’ve only seen bits and pieces of Parks and Rec (I need to fix that), but I can see that being the case.

Even in really mainstream sitcoms, people got invested in the soap opera elements of Friends.

I really wish I liked The Good Place more, but I feel like I terminally bounced off of it on the last attempt. It may be that I’ve been watching 2-3 episodes at a time on Netflix, but whenever I do, the show reaches a terminal self-satisfaction at its own cleverness after about an hour and I can’t watch it again for a…

The “Heavy Rain” ‘SHAUN!’ glitch is legitimately one of the funniest things I have seen in any medium.

I don’t necessarily want to single you out, but my will to try that game out diminishes every time I see a “HONK!’ reference on the internet. I played a D&D session recently with a DM who though shouting “HONK!” and making us fight geese was the height of comedy and it really soured me on that video game through no…

Kristen was really great, and while I doubt we’ll see her again in any significant way, any writer killing her off would have an astoundingly tone-deaf read on that character and Daredevil as a whole.

There’s a warm sense of irony to his performance, but you have to sit through a lot of growling to get to it. I definitely don’t blame people for watching clips and not picking up on it.

There has been some humour with Cavill, but I don’t think he quite sells it.

Game of Thrones was pretty heavy going to start with. I remember anxiously scouring the chart of the houses that came with the Season 1 box-set.

I both like and really hate how it re-contextualises ‘A New Hope’s opening, because on one hand it’s a gut-punch and on the other, I don’t know if my viewing of a Saturday morning children’s serial about wacky robots and imperiled princesses needed the weight of the The Sacrafice of the Few behind it.

And is it better servered for it? Star Wars got a lot of mileage out of leaving some of the gaps unfilled and I think it really started to choke once it was realised that there was money to be made out of people who can’t handle ambiguity or deliberate mystery.

Most of my friends who go nuts for it are in that 40-43 kind of age range, it’s really foundational for them.

Out of curiosity, when did it get its hooks into your friends? 1988 would have made them 9 for the 1997 re-releases and 8 for Shadow of the Empire. It had quite the hype-push around that time (UK readers might…

I have to say, I’ve never been a huge SW fan. I was born in 83, so too young for SW fever as a generational touchstone and I wasn’t really a little kid by the advent of the 90s reboots. My experience of it was basically as an impenetrable discounted toy-line without a cartoon. Star Wars was just kind of there as kind…

I’ll also grant that THIS is a more nuanced and interesting take:

No, I only watched the new(ish) series of Twin Peaks over the last week or so and was looking for discussion on it.

I don’t think everything you say is without merit. I accept that Lynch definitely has a blind spot when it comes to POC performers. This isn’t unique to him, but it doesn’t exonerate him from addressing…

Nah, you were a fixture right through the Twin Peaks coverage, with this smooth-brained Tumblr nonsense which actually makes me feel pretty nostalgic for 2017.

I think plenty of other posters answered you eloquently, but thanks for fighting the good fight and breaking the story that David Lynch is *checks notes* a…

It actually made me think about Evolution for the first time in what, 15 years? More?

I feel second-hand embarrassment at the scene with the gunner’s chair from the toy-line.

Oh sure, David Lynch would be big game if you could snag him, right?

And I do want more diversity on TV, I just don’t have any patience for people who can only view TV like a Human Resources executive.

I wonder if that was a play on Bowie’s really bad American accent (which actually helps with the surrealism here) trying to say ‘We’re not going to talk about duty’ which Lynch later retrofitted.