Ooh, maybe Season 4.

Thank you! I missed that. Things were moving FAST.

Did we ever find out what that green stuff is? Food for the Mind Flayer? A chemical weapon extracted from the Upside Down (in which case it’s going the wrong direction)? A way to break down the wall between worlds?

New Coke was Bad Pepsi (I was around for it). The writer Rick Bass has an early story in which the narrator assiduously seeks out and stockpiles the old Coke flavor. I didn’t stockpile, but was def. unimpressed.

So does this one (struggle, that is). They put on the whole production with a budget of $0.00 from the school district. They built the costumes themselves.

I got to hear Neil Gaiman speak at The New Yorker Festival a few years back. Apparently one of his daughters was a TOTAL GOTH as a small child - so much so that he found himself at the local small-town bookstore asking for “horror for four-year-olds,” which didn’t go well. She started telling him stories, including…

I lived! And so did sudden_kid. (I like to think my avatar would have survived as well.)

Yeah, it’s hopeless. I’ll never get approved, and I used to have such a cheerful time in the AV Club comments. Sigh.

Precisely because I grew up in the rural Southwest, it was over a decade after I left that I finally figured out that, no, Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn and Emmylou Harris (not to mention Patsy Cline) are hella talented, and as for zydeco and Cajun music, they are the sound of LIFE.

Thank you, I was coming here to say: what the hell was up with those pizzas?

You are not kidding.

The president* seems to be trying to hasten the “American carnage” he was getting all hot and bothered about in his inauguration speech.

I’m pretty sure Rick Scott has now completely wrecked his chances of defeating Senator Nelson. Good. Nothing else about this is good (except the fantastic kids and the growing movement).

I am (considerably) older than you. My first twice-in-the-theater was Star Wars (1977), which I managed to see 10 times. Obvs I was crazy, but I was also very, very happy.

Thank you. It’s remarkable (and weirdly heartening) that Fies was able to pull this together.

Mazikeen! Lesley-Ann Brandt is 90% of the reason I watch this show. OK, maybe 80% (Trixie, Dr. Linda, and sometimes D. B. Woodside are a lot of fun as well). She seemed a bit ... restrained? (if that’s the word I’m looking for) for much of this episode, so I was totally happy when she started flinging her knife around…

I suspect I’mma be in the grays (will find out when I hit “publish”). Am in the black on io9 and was at Gawker, but Gizmodo and Jezebel, not so much. Sigh.

Scarlett Johansson is 31. And yeah, bike.

THANK YOU.

Which has nothing to do with the project being discussed on screen. Any reactions to that?