The sight of a needle going into my skin makes me go all “far and wee” - shallow, racing pulse, clammy skin, vision closing in. I did an old-school allergy screening years ago that involved tiny little subdermal needles and just watching those made me almost pass out.

Just not looking is the biggest key for me.

Interesting - Spielberg was able to use clips from DD24.5C in Close Encounters which came out, what, six months after Star Wars?

“thank goodness they didn’t make it a literal hand of God”

Wow, that’ll teach me to multitask - that should have been:
“...comments about how Joss may have treated “small-time stars” DIFFERENTLY from big names”
and
“...everyone described the conditions, though rigorous (long hours) AS LOVING AND FAMILY-LIKE”.
Woof.

I am very curious to hear from anyone in the Firefly cast. I see the comments about how Joss may have treated “small-time stars” from big names, but most of the regulars on Firefly weren’t huge stars; Baldwin had done movies and Ron Glass had played a memorable tv character but for the most part they were all pretty…

Something that always stood out to me about Mal’s lack of consistency (which I think is completely appropriate for his character):

In “Serenity” (the pilot), speaking to Simon:
Mal: “If I ever kill you, you’ll be awake. You’ll be facing me, and you’ll be armed.”

In “Serenity” (the movie):
Operative: “I want to resolve…

As long as you have to bind your Facebook account to an Oculus device, the answer for me is: neither.

As long as you have to bind your Facebook account to an Oculus device, the answer for me is: neither.

No, it was partway up the hill and quite nice.

Amusing note: we were asking the hostess about the building and she said it had been a convent at one point, then (as she politely put it) it had been a “hotel available for rental by the hour...”

I don’t see any scenario where this is anything more than high-budget fan fiction. It’s the logical next step for people who thought it was a great idea to add a hot elf-chick to The Hobbit to give one of the dwarves a conflicted love interest.

I could not be less interested.

We went to Ireland a few years back and spent a few days at a lovely B&B in Cork; one morning we went down for breakfast and my wife asked for porridge. Our hostess Kathleen asked if she’d like Bailey’s porridge; my wife asked what that was? Kathleen replied, somewhat patiently, “It’s porridge with Bailey’s in it?”.

And…

BBC’s 2008 Survivors. Loved the story and characters, and the second season ended on a complete cliffhanger...and just never got picked up again. Ugh.

(has Rogue One flashbacks...)

Before I saw this movie in the theater I read a review that described it as “War of the Worlds” as directed by Irwin Allen.

It set my expectation-meter PERFECTLY.

“Vitamin supplements are somewhere between mostly useless and completely useless.” 

What’s that now?

”If you eat fruits, vegetables, and animal products on any kind of regular basis, you almost certainly have all your bases covered.”

If I recall, Barry actually consulted with Hiaasen (they were working at the same paper when he wrote this).

It’s part of a genre that I think Hiaasen referred to as “South Florida wackos”. See, also, John D MacDonald’s Travis McGee series.

Amen. I will never understand why he does so many Superman movies when he clearly deeply despises the very concept of the character.

What gets me is that he claimed to have loved the original series.

I can’t understand how someone could love something and have such a deep and fundamental misunderstanding of what made it great.

It’s definitely my preferred way of eating oatmeal now - use good steel-cut oats; toast them lightly in a saute pan before cooking; then throw a pat of butter and some kosher salt and fresh black pepper in with it when it’s ready, along with some toasted slivered almonds and crushed walnuts. Mm, mm good!

Gonna have to…

“derided at the time, but now held in a rightfully higher esteem”

um wut? 

I use pre-cut stew meat for my chili, any time of year.