It also helps to launch your “everything app” into a frontier environment where there’s no competition (from other social media, banking, investment, shopping and job apps) or can launch it someplace where an authoritarian government has given you a monopoly. (Speaking of which, it doesn’t help if you’re trying to…

Because killing Chewie was a pretty obvious committee decision imposed on R.A. Salvatore, who did the best with the mandate he was given that he could. Hence a moon falling on Chewie while saving Han's kids, but the subtext was clearly a bunch of people behind the scenes deciding Chewie was the most/only expendable…

Extragalactic invaders? Oh, obviously it’s the Tof. Who else could it be? And well overdue. They just need to bring Jaxxon back to fight them.

My parallel universe is the one where they figured out they could do period superhero films well in advance of Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain Marvel and made a Hulk film going back to his original, pre-TV origin story: a 1960s Cold War thriller set on a remote above-ground nuclear weapons testing…

Yep. I was doing a Very Sporadic Rewatch, and one evening I was, like, “Hey, I’ll watch a B5 episode,” and when I sent the old browser to HBO Max the show was gone, gone, gone like somebody’s wife in an old country song.

One of the classic examples of that is Stephen Soderbergh’s The Limey, which uses footage from Ken Loach’s Poor Cow for flashbacks filling in Wilson’s (Terrance Stamp's) backstory.

And I like this explanation because TMP isn’t actually bad, it’s just weird: like Robert Wise somehow missed a memo and thought he was making 2001 and not a Star Trek movie. It’s got some of the franchise’s visually grandest moments juxtaposed against some of the franchise’s unintentionally campiest.

Send the horse to skydiving school, obviously.

So you’re saying he’s up against Poison Ivy in this pitch? Yeah, she probably deserves to be used in a better movie than Batman & Robin, not to mention I’m sick unto death of The Joker at this point.

“Fast forward to 1982...”: also keep in mind that Montalban was the star of one of the hottest shows on television (Fantasy Island) and a popular advertising spokesman (most famously for Chrysler and their “rich Corinthian leather” interiors). He was arguably the biggest name attached to Wrath of Khan.

Glad I’m not alone in automatically blocking paid accounts.

Yes, that’s the name of the movie and the rumor is a famous old director who was given an advance screening told his new wife the movie would give her some terrible thrills.

No, the thing is that they *were* professional game designers, or what passed for such in the 1970s when the gaming industry was basically a bunch of nerdy white guys who hadn’t “grown up” and lived in the same bubble of PBM wargames, small “conventions", and mimeographed 'zines. The fact you wouldn't design a game…

I think you missed the point, but since you put it that way: sure.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: as someone who has gotten jaded in a public service field after more than two decades fighting the same battles and having every seeming win turn out to be a stage-setting for doing it all over again with different participants, TLJ was the first time I found the character…

Those Voyager images in National Geographic are burned into my brain. It was utterly amazing to pull those issues out of the brown paper sleeves they were mailed in and be looking at alien worlds that previously were only grainy telescope images.

Yeah. At this point and rate of progress, I'm not convinced I'LL live long enough for him to finish the series.

I haven’t watched the show, but based on recaps it sounds very much like it poorly handled themes that have been showing up in Martin’s non-GOT works his whole professional life: the sympathetic and once-powerless protagonist who stumbles into vast power which they initially use to commit inarguably beneficial acts…

This. It’s almost insulting to the North Vietnamese to present them as if they were a bunch of self-armed rednecks, instead of a well-trained, highly disciplined force that by the time of direct American involvement in the Indochina War had decades of experience fighting the Japanese and then the French, and who were…

Feeling kinda weird that mp3 hoarding is being presented as... well, weird. I certainly prefer FLAC as a format, sure, but I’ve mostly avoided buying physical media for years, and not everyone (Amazon, ahem) sells in other formats (and mp3, for all its problems, is pretty universal).